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Barnes & Noble jumps into e-book market

article published on 9 March, 2009

Barnes & Noble has formally jumped into the e-book market this week, purchasing the e-book retailer Fictionwise for $15.7 million USD. William Lynch Jr., CEO of B&N, added that the company will be launching an e-book store later this year and that they purchased Fictionwise because they had "one of the most popular applications on the iPhone, and they really understand merchandising." ... [ read the full article ]

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Lothros
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_ 		9. March 2009 @ 07:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just another example of a company doing things too early for their own good i guess.
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ZippyDSM
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_ 		9. March 2009 @ 14:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ya we need a solid yet cheap ebook reader something 7 inchs or better black/white or low color resolution if its over 50$ forget it.

Looking at car DVD players you might just be able to build a medium qaulity LCD device that would be prefect for still pictures yet offer reasoanble qaulity for the 50-100$ price range.
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hermes_vb
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_ 		14. March 2009 @ 15:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't think is too early when it's clear ebooks are going to be the future. Now the question is can they compete with Amazon?
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