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I imagine the NookStudy freebie versions have different product numbers because it'll be easier to keep separate from the regular ones, and avoid having people call up to complain "it said it was free, but I got charged!".
Incidentally, that just happened with two of their leftover freebies from last week, which kept showing a 0.00 price on the regular B&N Classics set of 9 pages that you from the following the eBooks section sidebar link or the one for the paper classics.
People who clicked the Get Free Book from that button instead of loading up the actual product page which showed the change, got dinged for $1.99 and, understandably, griped about it on the board, and were told to call B&N CS to get their money back, though one of the B&N mods did say that he'd see about trying to arrange something automatic-ish for the refunds, because it's a sure bet that not everyone will notice or possibly know where to take their complaint (apparently their email help contact option is notoriously useless).
B&N seems to have joined the competition for hardest-to-use site that Sony and Kobo are currently running.
For a couple of days it looked like they'd changed things to invalidate the usual "0.00 [keyword]" search that lets one batch check for freebies by author/publisher, in case a bunch have shown up on another site, but that seems to have been fixed/reverted now, and hopefully Inkmesh should be able to start updating their B&N freebie list from now on.
Anyway, we're now up to 105 promotionally advertised free B&N Classics (+1 for Plato's Republic), with up to 12 hopefully non-repeats to come, and it's well over half their total catalogue of 183 in e-editions and they've dropped the price of the regular ones back down.
So despite their less-than-competence and the way they've run Fictionwise into the ground, I'm pretty happy with B&N right now. Plus they have a cute stuffed mascot bear. That always helps.
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