What did Barnes and Noble announces recently? Explain?
Rumors about Barnes & Noble’s plans to develop an eReader have been confirmed in a company statement that launches a new eBookstore and outlines a partnership with Plastic Logic to develop an eReader for an early 2010 launch. B&N also notes that they will offer eBooks on devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry as well as PCs and Macs in addition to their Plastic Logic device. It may also be available on other eReaders down the line (opening up is something Amazon also strives for) The new eBookstore includes 700,000 launch titles, public domain books and hundreds of bestsellers priced at $9.99. Pricing and details on the hardware have not been released thus far, but it is clear that the battle is shaping up to be more about where customers will choose to get their content, not the hardware they will get their content on. Sources: http://gizmodo.
To compete with Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble now offers it’s own E-reader. They promises to have 700,000 titles available, including 500,000 free public domain works from Google. They are releasing their own e-reader (http://www.plasticlogic.com/ereader/index.php), which supports the open EPub e-book standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum. That means the files can also be read on Macs, PCs, iPhones, & Blackberries through free downloadable software. New releases and bestsellers will retail for $9.99–the same price as Amazon. Sources: http://www.nbr.co.
Barnes & Nobel jumps into the eReader market with eBookstore, which offers 700,000 digital books that can be viewed on a variety of mobile devices, computers and eReaders. Sources: http://itned.blogspot.com/2009/07/barnes-and-noble-announces-ebookstore.
