They also sent out an email to US residents
Quote:
We are writing to announce an upcoming change to your NOOKŪ service and to explain what it means for you.
Effective March 15, 2016, NOOK Video™ will no longer offer digital movies and television shows for rental or purchase.
To meet your digital video needs going forward, we have partnered with two industry leaders to maintain access to NOOK Video titles you've already purchased.
We have partnered with Disney to ensure the best experience and a seamless transition for your eligible Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars movies at no cost to you. Further instructions on how to transfer those titles to a new or existing Disney Movies Anywhere account will be sent to you by email on or before April 4, 2016.
For all your other purchased NOOK Video titles, we have partnered with CinemaNow to provide continuing access at no new cost to you. Further instructions on how to transfer your NOOK Videos to a new or existing CinemaNow account will be sent to you by email on or before April 4, 2016.
You may set up an account with Disney Movies Anywhere and CinemaNow and begin purchasing or renting new videos as soon as you'd like. After April 30, 2016, NOOK will no longer support video streaming, download, and playback on NOOK devices, the NOOK Reading App™ for Android, or the NOOK Video app. It is important that you transfer your NOOK Video titles to the services above in order to continue to access your videos after April 30.
You'll find more information about this change on our FAQs page.
We will, of course, continue to offer our full service of books, magazines, and newspapers on both NOOK devices and our standalone Reading Apps, and look forward to bringing the best in digital reading to your NOOK experience.
Sincerely,
The NOOK Team
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So they're pulling back out of the UK, after having done so for the rest of Europe last year (2015), and they're ditching selling and renting video. And seem to be giving themselves an out if streaming video doesn't work properly on their devices after the transition.
I'm just glad I have my Nook linked ebooks downloaded and backed up.
It's funny, just today Kobo posted an article about a speech their CEO Michael Tamblyn gave, in which he says that this is the 'end of the beginning of ebooks'. For those interested it can be read
here. But while it seems like companys such as Kobo and Amazon are reaching a comfortable pace in the sale of ebooks. Barnes and Noble is at a point that it feels the need to drop services and entire markets.