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Barnes & Noble Plans Online Bookstore to Battle Amazon <–Click for full story>
In an announcement on Monday, Barnes & Noble said that it would offer more than 700,000 titles that could be read on a wide range of devices, including Apple’s iPhone, the BlackBerry and various laptop or desktop computers. When Barnes & Noble acquired Fictionwise in March, that online retailer had about 60,000 titles in its catalog.
More than 500,000 of the titles now going live 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.
Barnes & Noble is promoting its e-bookstore as the world’s largest, an implicit stab at Amazon.com, which currently offers about 330,000 titles for its Kindle device. Currently, Google’s public domain titles cannot be read on a Kindle.
Story originally published by www.nytimes.com
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