The South Korean multinational corporation Samsung and Fortune 500 company and the largest retail bookseller in the United States, also the leading retail store of digital media and educational products in America, Barnes & Noble in partnership will bring Samsungs latest tablets to the consumer markets, named as Galaxy Nook series. Yesterday, the companies have announced their first release, dubbed as Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, which will indeed be the same Galaxy Tab 4 seven-inches slate from the Korean manufacturer, packing the exact same hardware out of the box.
"Samsung has had a strong relationship with Barnes & Noble, offering the company’s award-winning reading experience to users of Galaxy Tab products. Samsung is dedicated to providing consumers with choices that best fit their lifestyle. So, we are excited to be taking this next step with Barnes & Noble to offer Galaxy Tab 4 devices that are tailored to the needs of their customers and enhance the NOOK reading experience," said Tim Baxter, President of Samsung Electronics America.
That doesnt means, there are no changes made on the slate. According to the Press Release from Barnes & Noble, the new tablet will ship combining industry leading Samsung tablets smart technologies and features along with NOOKs reading technology. The slates will come pre-loaded with Barnes & Nobles customized Nook software, that is specially designed for reading, where users of the tablet can easily access Barnes & Nobles digital collection or content, including more than three Million books, magazines and newspapers. Interested customers can expect the units to go on sale from early August, in the Stateside. The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook will be available from Barnes & Nobles bookstores across United States, their official domain and other e-commerce websites. Pricing is not disclosed at the moment.
"We are very excited and proud to partner with Samsung, a world-class technology and tablet leader, to create customized co-branded devices featuring our valuable NOOK reading experience and digital content catalog for Barnes & Noble customers nationwide. Standing behind these great new devices will be the power of our 40,000 Barnes & Noble booksellers combined with our deep bookselling and retail expertise to provide sales support and personalized in-store customer service for our lineup of new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK products. Partnering with Samsung brings our customers great new products and evidences our commitment to our NOOK customers and growing our digital content business," mentioned Michael P. Huseby, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Source: BARNES & NOBLE
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