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Microsoft Calls It Time On The Nook Tablet

Loss-making Nook e-reader device, launched by bookseller Barnes & Noble has suffered from major drop in sales over last year

Barnes & Noble has handed over its hardware business to Samsung, hoping offers in its physical shops will win tablet customers over

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have agreed to scale back their e-reading Nook partnership, after rumours faced that Microsoft would buy the project out

Recent layoffs may signal the end of the Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet division - but the company denies it

Half of all Americans now own a mobile device such as a tablet or e-reader for reading digital content, according to a Pew study

Microsoft is reportedly looking to move deeper into the ebook market with a buyout of the Nook joint venture

New tablets will take on Amazon, Google and Apple this Autumn

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Apple's iPad may rule the roost but Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is helping to expand the US tablet market, according to Forrester Research

Bookseller Barnes & Noble has said it may sell off its Nook e-reader unit, which is struggling to compete with Amazon's Kindle

Google's Android will gain 40 percent of the tablet market thanks to the Kindle Fire and Nook tablets, according to IDC