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Barnes and Noble Finally Sending Nook Across the Pond to the UK

August 20, 2012 by Nathan

Nook UK

Barnes and Noble announced this morning that Nook devices, Nook reading apps, and Nook content, including ebooks, digital newspapers, magazines, comics, and even Nook Android apps, are headed to the United Kingdom this fall.

The first products to reach UK shores in mid-October will be Barnes and Noble’s E Ink ereaders, the Nook Touch and Nook Touch with GlowLight.

Barnes and Noble has setup a UK storefront for the Nook at www.nook.co.uk and will also sell Nooks from UK retail partners both in-store and online. The partners haven’t been announced just yet, however. Waterstones seems like a name that could come up.

Barnes and Noble is a US company and this the is their first attempt at international expansion. All the other major players in the ebook reader field—Amazon, Kobo, Sony—have already expanded into several international markets so it’s about time Barnes and Noble did the same.

It sounds like it might take a while for B&N to launch their color ereaders over there though. The press release mentions the Nook Touch will launch in time for the holiday shopping season, which makes it sound as if the Nook Tablet won’t be available by the end of the year. Hopefully they can get it out before then.

Nevertheless, it’s good to see Barnes and Noble finally making the push to expand internationally. That’s one down. Now just two to go.

Filed Under: eBook Readers, Nook Tagged With: nook uk

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  1. Rob Fargher says

    August 20, 2012 at 11:26 am

    So when will B&N come to Canada? I love my Nook Simple Touch and wish it were properly supported.

  2. Doug says

    August 20, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Rob: when will your government lift the Investment Canada Act which basically prohibits non-Canadian brick-and-mortar bookstores from doing business in Canada?

    Hmmm… now I’ve got the tune “Blowing in the Wind” running through my head.

    Maybe if B&N does manage to spin the NOOK business off into an independent operation. Unfortunately, the “Newco” joint venture with Microsoft includes the College bookstores, which are brick-and-mortar.

    • Andrew says

      August 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm

      Hilarious, Doug! Haha great retort. 🙂

  3. Josemn says

    August 20, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    Is the tablet being held back because of the new version with the revolutionary screen?

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