Writing in the Digital Age: You Guess — Nook, Micronook, Nooksoft, or MSNook?

Endangered species?

Nook and Microsoft,
sitting in a tree,
K * I * S * S * I * N * G

First comes books, then comes hardware,

Then comes software with nightmare support.

It is still just a rumor, but with some strong evidence by sleuths at TechCrunch: Microsoft is looking to pay $1 billion for the assets of Nook Media, LLC. The assets, not the hardware, mind you. A few of those assets are the 11 novels and 3 short stories I’ve put up on Nook myself.

I don’t know how I feel about this. Nook has been g...