Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Barnes and Noble to Create an E-Book Megacenter - NYTimes.com

Another interesting Google Books twist

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. Sony announced a similar deal in March to offer the public domain books on its Reader device.

Barnes & Noble is promoting its e-bookstore as the world’s largest, an implicit stab at Amazon.com, which offers about 330,000 for its Kindle device. Currently, Google’s public domain books cannot be read on a Kindle.

Barnes and Noble to Create an E-Book Megacenter - NYTimes.com

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