Thread: News flash! Barnes & Noble buys Fictionwise for $15.7 million
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Old 03-09-2009, 09:05 AM   #235
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Now, FW is staying in its own corporate shell, so that suggests to me that they are not going to change their business plan. I think that maybe B&N is the crack in the DRM dike - that they are looking to be a multiformat open platform type of ebook retailer, and have decided that Fictionwise is their vehicle for this enterprise.
Oh, this sounds good, but I like to think that the selection of books will be bigger because FictionWise has B&N behind them...
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