Nook was a company built by investments by B&N, Pearson and Microsoft. It was terribly executed but the idea was to help Microsoft complete their digital media

Nook was a company built by investments by B&N, Pearson and Microsoft. It was terribly executed but the idea was to help Microsoft complete their digital media catalog that was lacking books and help Pearson and B&N get into digital bookselling. Unfortunately almost none of those happened!