Barnes & Noble Launches World's Largest eBook Shop Rivaling Amazon Kindle Store
By cgull8m
Amazon Kindle has a head start
as far as eBooks are concerned, but Barnes & Noble has launched a
competing store that offers more versatility than Amazon's. Whereas
Amazon's eBooks can be viewed only in their Kindle devices, Barnes and
Noble's eBooks can be viewed in your desktop (PC and Mac), iPhone and
other Smartphones with their free eBook reader, eReader.
I
used to read eBooks from eReader in Palm devices before, they worked
great. The software occupies less space and their eBooks are even
better compared to PDF, Microsoft Reader formats.
Barnes
& Noble already has more than 700,000 eBooks available with most
prices less than $9.99. Amazon has more than 300,000 title for their
Kindle Reader, which also costs $299 and higher. Barnes & Noble's
eReader is free for everyone. William Lynch, president of the book giant's website BN.com told AFP:
"We want to make eBooks simple, accessible, affordable and convenient for everyone,"
"Today marks the first phase of our digital strategy, which is rooted in the belief that readers should have access to the books in their digital library from any device, from anywhere, at any time."
You can download the eReader from this link. Along with this download Barnes & Noble provides free eBooks. This eReader will work with iPod Touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm Pre, Palm Treo Smartphones and desktops.
Amazon's eBooks can be read in iPhones with their free Amazon App in iTunes, but you need to purchase Amazon Kindle first.
Barnes & Noble also is planning to launch new eBook versions via Plastic Logic.
Sony also has their own eReader devices and eBooks store here.
You can also read more than 500,000 eBooks from Google for free (from
public domain) on your desktop with their Sony eBook Library Software here.
It is a healthy competition good for book lovers.
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Comments
Exciting news! I was considering a Kindle but now I'll wait and see. Thanks.
Great development. I likie this1
Keep on Hubbing!
"Amazon's eBooks can be read in iPhones with their free Amazon App in iTunes, but you need to purchase Amazon Kindle first."
This is an incorrect statement. You DO NOT need to purchase a Kindle before using the iPhone app. I use the iPhone app daily, have bought many books on it and still do not own a Kindle device.
BeatsMe, thanks, it depends, some are free others are paid versions.
Gypsy, thanks, I think iPhone is a better device than Kindle, you can do more than read a book. Kindle is a fashion item now, I don't think it will last long in my opinion.
Eovery, thanks.
Bill, thanks for your suggestion, but Amazon told me I can't buy Kindle books unless I register a Kindle device. Can you eloborate? Thanks.
BeatsMe 2 years ago
Wow. Another ebook reader. I think any ebooks reader that gives out free books can boost their popularity among users. I don't think pdfs have free ebooks, do they?