Well, somehow I failed to be one of the 3 POSSCON attendees who won a Galaxy Tab S, so that left me with rooting my Nook Color. Short version: it's not too hard to do, as long as you don't mind buying ...
I don't see why it wouldn't ever happen... all that's required to read B&N magazines on a different OS image is to have the version of the Nook app on the Android ...