Barnes & Noble, together with Microsoft announced a limited time free eBook and magazine offer through the NOOK App for Windows 8.1, Tuesday, Dec.10. This new deal enables customers who download the app to receive five free popular books and five free top magazines.

"By providing bestselling books and top magazines for free, new NOOK customers in Spain can start their digital libraries with some great content from the NOOK Store. We look forward to rolling out similar great offers to customers in more countries in the future, helping them to experience our unmatched reading platform," said Jim Hilt, Managing Director, Barnes & Noble. "With the recent announcement that the NOOK App for Windows 8.1 is available in 32 countries we have underlined our commitment to bringing NOOK's best-in-class digital reading experience to millions of new customers around the world."

"NOOK for Windows 8.1 offers an incredible reading experience for books, magazines, newspapers, and comics. Thanks to the perfect integration with Windows, Spanish customers of the app will be able to search and browse, highlight words, find specific phrases, add notes to eBooks, look up definitions and use Windows 8 search charm to find specific search strings in the NOOK library. Moreover, the exclusive offer of five free popular books and five free top magazines is an additional reason to download the app before the end of the holiday season," said Gonzalo Die Socias, DPE Lead at Microsoft, Spain.

Barnes & Noble recently announced that the NOOK App for Windows 8.1 is available to Windows 8.1 PC and tablet customers in 32 countries and in 12 languages through the Windows Store. The free app combines NOOK's reading experience with shopping directly from the app, so customers  around the globe can discover, explore and read a growing and diverse selection of books, magazines, newspapers and comics from any Windows 8.1 tablet or PC.