itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Microsoft’s getting ready to follow Amazon, Apple, and Google into the reading game with an app for Windows to peruse e-books, magazines, and comics. The new app Appears pray part of Microsoft’s cross-platform Xbox entertainment services, Which documents currently include Xbox Music and Video.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Microsoft doing now? Announced the app yet, but we know the company is working on it thanks to a job listings are first noticed by Chinese-language blog LiveSino.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> “As an SDE [Software Development Engineer], you will be on the team building a groundbreaking interactive reading app on Windows, Which incorporates books, magazines, and comics,” the ad listings are reads.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> There’s always a chance Microsoft will not intro the app, but That seems unlikely. All of Microsoft’s Major Competitors alreadycreated victims These kinds of services for tablets and other devices, so Microsoft really needs to sacrifice something similar if only to round out its entertainment offerings Compared to other platforms. The Verge’s sources confirmed That Microsoft is indeed working on a reading app.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Xbox Reading, or whatever it will be called, may not beat out third-party solutions like Amazon’s Kindle app or ComiXology, but That doing now? stopped Apple and Google from creating Their own homegrown solutions either.

Finding a Nook

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Do not be surprised if Microsoft’s reading app pulls its library of content from Barnes & Noble’s Nook catalog. In May 2012, Microsoft Invested $ 300 million in Barnes & Noble’s plan to spin off its Nook business.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> At the time, Microsoft said the partnership would “Accelerate e-reading innovation across a broad range of Windows devices.” Nearly two years later, however, there’s very little of substance to show for the Microsoft Nook alliance with the exception of a Nook app for Windows 8.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> It looks like that May be about to change Should an Xbox reading app show up in the coming months.

Ian Paul

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Ian is an independent writer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His current focus is on all things tech including mobile devices, desktop and laptop computers, software, social networks, Web apps, tech-related legislation and corporate tech news.
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