If you’re planning to use your new-fangled iPad as a book reader, you’ll be happy to know that Barnes & Noble is planning to bring its electronic-reading application to Apple’s tablet.
“Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, as well as the existing content in their Barnes & Noble digital library,” the book retailer said in a blog post.
Of course, Apple is pushing the iPad as a device to read books and you know it wants consumers to use the upcoming iBooks application to achieve that goal. The iPad will also compete against Barnes & Nobile’s Nook e-reader, which was plagued by software issues at first, but has become a decent little device. For Barnes & Noble, the device itself probably isn’t a big deal because it wants to make money selling books, no matter the format. Amazon’s in the same boat with its Kindle, as there’s already an iPhone app and I’m sure we’ll see an official iPad Kindle app in the not-too-distant future. Look for the Barnes & Noble app to be available around the same time as the iPad launches.
[Via Barnes & Noble blog]