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Barnes & Noble, a chain of retail bookstores in America that I greatly miss, announced yesterday that they’ve opened an eBook store with 700,00 titles, which includes roughly 500,000 books that are in the public domain, and that readers will be able to enjoy their books on the iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry. This move can be seen as a direct response to Amazon and their Kindle eBook reader, as well as Kindle iPhone app. While 700,000 eBooks may seem like more titles than Amazon’s 300,000 eBooks, Amazon does not offer books from the public domain. One can argue Amazon offers 100,000 more, up to date, eBooks. Barnes & Noble has also announced that they’re going to bring the Plastic Logic eBook reader to market in 2010 to compete with the Kindle. Thanks to DRM, whatever eBooks you buy from Barnes & Noble will not be readable on Amazon’s Kindle or iPhone app, and the same goes for buying Amazon eBooks on Barnes & Noble devices. I’ve said it several times on Twitter, I’ll say it again here: Dear Amazon: Bring the Kindle to Europe!
[Via: Los Angeles Times]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
