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On June 25, 2014, Barnes & Noble announced that the Nook division business would be spun off into an independent company.On December 4, 2014, Barnes & Noble announced an end to its partnership with Microsoft connected to Nook and that it intended to complete the separation of Nook by the end of the first quarter of 2015.