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Originally Posted by junkyardwillie
Creating a place where anyone would be able to buy their ebooks from would be a better product than what Sony and Amazon do, instead B&N gives you more of the same.
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Originally Posted by B&N Press Release
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore ( www.bn.com/ebooks), the world's largest eBookstore, on Barnes & Noble.com ( www.bn.com), enabling customers to buy eBooks and read them on a wide range of platforms |
According the the quoted B&N press release, they seem to be doing just what you want. How is that "more of the same"? So far, it does not look like a Walled Garden like Sony and Amazon have set up. If you are referring to their initial use of the eReader format, since they already own that format, it sure would not be very smart of them to start out with another format that is the primary format inside a competitor's Walled Garden.