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Tuesday, 20th October 2009

The Barnes & Noble eBook Reader Will Be Called the Nook, Will Allow Users to Lend Books

From a NY Times Article:

The device features color touch-screen controls and a gray-and-white reading display. It will cost $259, matching Amazon.com’s most recent price cut for its latest edition of the Kindle.

According to an advertisement that Barnes & Noble placed in the Oct. 25 issue of The New York Times Book Review and which was distributed to publishers on Monday, the [our emphasis] Nook will permit readers to lend their digital books to friends and download books wirelessly.

Ed. Note: You cannot lend books to friends with the Amazon.com Kindle. We wonder if B&N lending feature will be available for all titles or only selected ones?

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The advertisement for the Nook says that consumers will be able to “access over one million e-books, newspapers and magazines.” About 500,000 of the books available at BN.com can be downloaded free, through an agreement with Google to provide electronic versions of public domain books that Google has scanned from university libraries. These editions are currently not available on the Kindle.

The Nook will feature the same kind of electronic ink technology used by Kindle and other devices. It will be sold in Barnes & Noble stores as well as on a Web site, nook.com.

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Source: The New York Times

See Also: Barnes & Noble Reader Out Tuesday (via WSJ)

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