Barnes and Noble bought Fictionwise

dhbailey · 03-05-2009, 08:09 PM

This announcement is posted at the Fictionwise site:

As you may be aware, Barnes & Noble, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Fictionwise, Inc., including the Fictionwise.com and eReader.com eBook retail websites. For more information, please review the FAQs on this page.

I had wondered how long it would take Barnes&Noble to get into the ebook marketplace. I now wonder what this means -- will Fictionwise and ereader.com offer more Sony books, or will Barnes&Noble simply let the two sites continue as they have been, with some of the books in multiformat which includes LRF format, but lots of books in other secure formats but no LRX books.

In other words, might this site become competition for the Sony site?

zelda_pinwheel · 03-05-2009, 08:13 PM

yep, this is definitely big news ! please continue the discussion over here. this has great potential for making book shopping an even richer experience for readers. hopefully B&N and fictionwise are reading us !

03-05-2009, 08:09 PM	#1
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	Barnes and Noble bought Fictionwise This announcement is posted at the Fictionwise site: As you may be aware, Barnes & Noble, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Fictionwise, Inc., including the Fictionwise.com and eReader.com eBook retail websites. For more information, please review the FAQs on this page. I had wondered how long it would take Barnes&Noble to get into the ebook marketplace. I now wonder what this means -- will Fictionwise and ereader.com offer more Sony books, or will Barnes&Noble simply let the two sites continue as they have been, with some of the books in multiformat which includes LRF format, but lots of books in other secure formats but no LRX books. In other words, might this site become competition for the Sony site?

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03-05-2009, 08:13 PM	#2
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	yep, this is definitely big news ! please continue the discussion over here. this has great potential for making book shopping an even richer experience for readers. hopefully B&N and fictionwise are reading us !

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