Barnes & Noble Reader Released
It appears that Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader now has serious competition. Barnes & Noble is going a different way from Amazon, releasing a software solution that will work on portable digital devices that customers already own, such as the iPhone. Readers will be able to choose from a wide variety of book titles offered by the brick and mortar bookseller, over 700,000 titles in all. That is more than twice the available offerings of Amazon which claims over 300,000 titles available for its Kindle.
Not only will readers be able to get bestseller titles for $9.99, but through Google over half a million public domain books will also be available. All of this comes thanks to a buy of Fictionwise by Barnes & Noble in March 2009. Consumers will need a Barnes & Noble online account to be able to use the software and will use web browsers to select and purchase their titles rather than doing so from within the app itself.
When browsing, readers are allowed to sample books by reading the first few chapters free of charge. The app itself allows for a wide range of style choices to allow users to customize the look and feel of their e-books and page turning is as simple as a finger swipe across the screen.
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