Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion | TechCrunch

tbd if the "third-party partner" devices will be branded "Cranny"

"The documents also reveal that Nook Media plans to discontinue its Android-based tablet business by the end of its 2014 fiscal year as it transitions to a model where Nook content is distributed through apps on “third-party partner” devices. Speculation about the plan to discontinue the Nook surfaced in February. The documents we have are not clear on whether the third-party tablets would be Microsoft’s own Windows 8 devices, tablets made by others (including competing platforms) or both. Third-party tablets, according to the document, are due to get introduced in 2014."

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion | TechCrunch