Thread: Barnes and Noble announces upcoming eReader
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Old 07-21-2009, 05:20 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by lunged View Post
The news of them supporting ePub is very strange... but I am glad this is what they intend to do, as I am a big ePub supporter.
But the question on my mind is WHY launch an eBook store when it is less than half-baked? This store is a big deal, and they really botched the launch. The device won't be out until 2010 and they will transition their files from eReader to ePub over the next year? This doesn't make business sense any way you look at it.
Well, a sale is a sale. If they can sell epub files now, for reading on the PC/mac/other readers, and maybe charge a nominal fee for downloading the epub ones after the switch, so much the better. Even if they dont charge a nominal fee down the road, they still sell books, and a few sales are better than no sales at all.
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