Nook HD and HD+ start shipping this week

Good news if youve pre-ordered the new Nooks. Barnes & Noble will start shipping the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch HD+ tablets this week.

The devices will also start arriving at the book retailers 700 stores in the US, and 15,000 other partner stores such as Target, Walmart and Best Buy.

B&Ns CEO, William Lynch, has said that the company received a record number of pre-orders for the devices. And it managed to ink two content deals with NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox just in time for the new Nooks to pull TV and movies from the Nook Video service.

Along with Nook Video, Nook Catalog is a recent service launched. It will deliver shopping catalogs from retailers like Pottery Barn, as retailers try to sink their hooks into the consumer market towards the holiday season.

The services will help B&N try to close the gap with the flood of other competent tablets in the marketplace, since the Nook doesnt connect to the wider Google Play store, but to its own Nook Apps walled garden, which only has about 6,000 apps. Amazons Kindle Fire also routes back to its own app store, but that has about 50,000 apps in it, by comparison.

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