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B&N Finally Expands Nook Books Internationally to 30 Countries – Sort of

November 26, 2013 by Nathan

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Yesterday Barnes and Noble finally took a big step toward realizing their international expansion plans by opening their ebookstore in 30 new countries around the globe, with support for 21 languages.

Up until now the Nook store has only been available to residents of the United States. Then the United Kingdom about one year ago.

Amazon, Kobo, Sony, and Google have all managed to expand their ebookstores internationally at a much greater rate over the past few years; it’s good to see Barnes and Noble finally taking a stand and expanding their marketplace.

But there’s a catch. It appears the expansion is largely being influenced by Microsoft, whom owns a portion of Nook Media. The international expansion is being centered around the Nook app for Windows 8 computers and tablets.

As of right now it appears that international users are only being given that one option for accessing and shopping for Nook Books, as there’s no mention of other Nook apps or devices being available internationally.

If customers have to use a Windows 8 machine, coupled with the fact that B&N uses unique DRM that makes their ebooks incompatible with most other ePub-supporting devices, they aren’t giving international customers much of a reason to buy from them. But I guess it’s a start.

Here’s the list of countries and languages that now have access to Nook books, magazines, and newspapers through the Windows 8 Nook app:

Australia
Austria
Belgium (French)
Belgium (Dutch)
Canada (English)
Canada (French)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg (French)
Luxembourg (German)
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland (German)
Switzerland (French)
Switzerland (Italian)
United Kingdom
United States

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Filed Under: eBooks, Nook Tagged With: nook for pc

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Comments

  1. Emmanuel says

    November 27, 2013 at 1:38 am

    I tried to install the apps on my Windows8 PC, but it requires Windows8.1, a catch from Microsoft to force the users to upgrade ??

    • Daniel says

      November 27, 2013 at 7:44 am

      Why wouldn’t you upgrade? It’s for free.

      • Freethinker says

        November 28, 2013 at 8:03 am

        I’m on Windows 7 so nope, it’s not free at all.
        Besides more DRM problems and issues. No thanks

  2. Ana says

    November 27, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    Does the app allow sideloading your own epubs? I’ve read that there’s no decent app to read epubs on this platform. Nook isn’t obviously any Marvin or Mantano, but while something else appears, at least you could’ve the basics with this app.

    • Nathan says

      November 27, 2013 at 6:43 pm

      On the app description page it says that you can sideload ePubs and PDFs:

      “Import ePub and PDF files from your PC or SkyDrive to access your favorite content in one place”.

  3. Ray says

    January 15, 2014 at 11:30 am

    “It appears the expansion is largely being influenced by Microsoft, whom [sic] owns a portion of Nook Media.”

    Ahem.

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