Barnes & Noble is adding NBCUniversal and Fox Home Entertainment...
Barnes & Noble is adding NBCUniversal and Fox Home Entertainment content to the Nook Video service via new licensing deals, the retailer said Tuesday. The deals will bring “thousands” of movies and TV shows to the Nook Video catalog, including…
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the films Snow White and the Huntsman, Battleship, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Ice Age: Continental Drift and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Barnes & Noble said. The chain also said it shipped the Nook HD and Nook HD+. The tablets will “start arriving throughout the week” to consumers who pre-ordered the devices online at Nook.com and at Barnes & Noble stores, it said. The devices will go to the chain’s 700 or so stores for demonstration and purchase and into “15,000 additional locations” including Best Buy, Target and Walmart this holiday season, Barnes & Noble said. The 7-inch Nook HD costs $199 for an 8-GB SKU and $229 for a 16-GB version. The 9-inch HD+ costs $269 for a 16-GB SKU and $299 for a 32-GB version. The devices are the “first UltraViolet-enabled tablets,” and “will seamlessly integrate a customer’s UltraViolet digital video collection across their devices right out of the box,” the chain said. Customers can “easily link their UltraViolet accounts” to the Nook Cloud, allowing them to view UltraViolet-enabled movies and TV shows they bought across the two tablets, with free Nook Video apps “coming soon,” it said. Customers can also shop for DVDs and Blu-ray discs with the UltraViolet logo at Barnes & Noble and other retail stores, add them to their digital collections, and instantly view compatible titles from the Nook Cloud, it said. “The cloud based service integrated with UltraViolet really increases the value proposition of digital media, giving consumers total freedom” to view their content “wherever and whenever they want,” Michael Bonner, NBCUniversal Digital Distribution executive vice president-Product Development & Strategy, said in a news release. “The ability to access digital HD movies” from Fox via Nook Video “complements our existing strategy of delivering the best entertainment experience to consumers and to enrich digital ownership,” said Mike Dunn, Fox Home Entertainment president-worldwide.