Barnes & Noble to exit cutthroat tablet hardware business, let partners build Nooks

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Barnes & Noble to exit cutthroat tablet hardware business, let partners build Nooks
         

While Barnes & Noble hoped its custom-built Nook tablet could compete with the likes of Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle Fire, continued losses for the bookseller have forced it to exit the hardware manufacturing business, leaving third-party partners to build future Nook devices.
         

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