Bookends: The End Of The Ink and Paper Era
Amazon’s seemingly unshakable stranglehold on the eBook industry may have just met its match. According to a B&N Press Release offered up yesterday, the “nation’s largest bookseller” has launched the Barnes and Noble eBookstore. The new book store will enable “customers to buy eBooks and read them on a wide range of platforms including 
the iPhone and iPod touch (opens iTunes), BlackBerry smartphones, as well as most Windows and Mac computers. In addition, Barnes & Noble announced that it will be the exclusive eBook store on “the forthcoming and much anticipated Plastic Logic eReader device,” which will compete head-on with Amazon’d Kindle. Barnes and Noble will meet Amazon’s per book price of $9.99 as well as offer access to over 700,000 titles, “making it the world’s largest selection of eBooks available in one place.” B&N also revealed that it plans to expand that library to over 1 million titles. Read more »
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