[Asis-l] [Web4lib] Barnes And Noble Plans An Extensive E-Bookstore

[Brian Gray]

At least the first Kindle was based on Mobi Reader which is also freely
available.

The key will be which company offers the most titles in a variety of formats
to support the most systems.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Robert L. Balliot <
rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com> wrote:

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> Not only that, B & N is also making the viewing software
> available as a free download for several platforms including
> iPhone, Blackberry, PC and MAC along with 6 'free' e-books.
>
> Worth investigating the potential:
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> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/download-reader.asp?dltab=pc
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of McKiernan, Gerard
> [LIB]
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> Cc: McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]
> Subject: [Web4lib] Barnes And Noble Plans An Extensive E-Bookstore
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> Colleagues/
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> One Small Step For B&N, One Giant Leap For Mobile e-Books !!! [:-)
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> /Gerry
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> NYTimes / Internet / July 21, 2009 / Chain Plans An Extensive
> E-Bookstore / By MOTOKO RICH
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> [snip]
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> In an announcement on Monday, Barnes & Noble said that it would offer
> more than 700,000 books that could be read on a wide range of devices,
> including Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry and various laptop or desktop
> computers. [snip]
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> More than 500,000 of the books now offered electronically 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. [snip]
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> Gerry McKiernan
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> Associate Professor
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> Science and Technology Librarian
>
> Iowa State University Library
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> Ames IA 50011
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