Barnes & Noble is offering special prices for the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ in celebration of Mother?s Day and the recent addition of the Google Play on the 7- and 9-inch high definition tablets. Through Mother's Day, May 12, NOOK HD will be available at the price of $149 (8GB) and $179 (16GB), and NOOK HD+ is offered at $179 (16GB) and $209 (32GB) at Barnes & Noble bookstores and on NOOK.com. NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are also available through other retailers.

On Friday, the company announced it was expanding its catalog of reading and entertainment with Google Play on NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, offering users access to one of the world's largest digital reading content catalogs, with more than 700,000 Android apps and games, songs, movies and TV shows, plus Google services like the Chrome browser, Gmail, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps.