[Web4lib] Barnes And Noble Plans An Extensive E-Bookstore

[Robert L. Balliot]

Not only that, B & N is also making the viewing software
available as a free download for several platforms including
iPhone, Blackberry, PC and MAC along with 6 'free' e-books.  

Worth investigating the potential:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/download-reader.asp?dltab=pc


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Robert L. Balliot
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Colleagues/

 
One Small Step For B&N, One Giant Leap For Mobile e-Books !!! [:-)

/Gerry


NYTimes / Internet / July 21, 2009 / Chain Plans An Extensive
E-Bookstore / By MOTOKO RICH

 
[snip]
 

In an announcement on Monday, Barnes & Noble said that it would offer
more than 700,000 books that could be read on a wide range of devices,
including Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry and various laptop or desktop
computers. [snip]

More than 500,000 of the books now offered electronically on BN.com can
be downloaded free, through an agreement with Google to provide
electronic versions of public domain books that Google has scanned from
university libraries. [snip]


Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011