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Barnes and Noble has announced that the NOOK reading app for the Microsoft Windows Store is discontinued. The listing has been removed and no new downloads are allowed. People who already have it ...

Barnes and Noble has released a major new version of its Nook eReader and store app for Windows 8, with an revamped interface and a number of new and improved features.

The Nook app may be dying, but it look like Nook’s content could be sticking around in as-yet-unannounced Microsoft e-reading apps. Good-bye Nook, hello readers?

The Windows 8 app is available to download at no cost for all Windows 8 computers and tablets. The Nook library offers over 3 million books including 1,000,000 free titles.

Nook Windows 8 app offers new design, discounts The latest update to the app features a new interface, quicker performance, and a discount on certain books and magazines.

Microsoft has posted the changelog for Barnes & Noble's NOOK app to the Windows blog, the popular eBook reader app received a major update alongside the release of Windows 8.1 few weeks ago.

The app supports snap view and portrait orientation. The Nook app for Windows 8.1 also supports the ability to import files from SkyDrive and an enhanced search feature.

Nook app for Windows 8.1 travels around the world Launched in the US in October, the app is now available for users in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and other nations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble will stop offering a stand-alone Nook app for Windows and instead deliver Nook media to Microsoft's Consumer Reader app.

Nook will discontinue the existing Nook Windows app and cooperate in “good faith” with Microsoft to transition users to the new app, for now dubbed as the Microsoft Consumer Reader.

It looks like the Nook Windows 8 app may be superseded by a Microsoft reading app. But the planned Nook Windows Phone app is seemingly tabled.