NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box

Chapter 4. Shop for Content on Your NOOK Tablet

The NOOK is your entrée into the world of books, magazines, newspapers, and apps—-literally millions of them. And you get them all through the NOOK Store. Once you’ve downloaded any of these kinds of media, they live in your library (see Chapter 5 for details on organizing and managing your Library). This chapter gets you into the NOOK Store to buy content and get it into your library.

Note

The process of searching the store and buying items is similar enough between books, magazines, newspapers, and apps that we’ll cover the general process using books as an example and pointing out specific differences when they occur between the different sections of the Store. Unless otherwise noted, getting magazines, newspapers, and apps is pretty much the same.

Browsing for Books in the NOOK Store

To get to the NOOK Store, tap Shop from the Quick Nav Bar, or tap a Shop icon if you’ve placed it on one of the panels in your Home Screen. You’ll be sent straight to the NOOK Store (Figure 4-1).

Figure 4-1. The NOOK Store

Toward the top of the page are categories: books, magazines, newspapers, kids, apps, and so on. Just beneath that, there’s a scrollable changing set of list of books and more, such as B&N Top 100, Cool NOOK Books, Picked Just For You (based on previous purchases), and more. Then, at the very bottom of the page, there’s a search box for searching ...