Courtesy of Tech & Gadgets—msnbc.com
Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled on Monday what it called the world's largest online bookstore, taking on Amazon.com Inc. with more than 700,00 titles readable on devices such as Apple Inc's iPhone.
The top U.S. bookseller plans to charge customers $9.99 to download most new releases and bestsellers — the same as Amazon. The titles now available include more than half a million public domain books from Google Inc.
Barnes & Noble also said it will be the exclusive provider of digital books on the Plastic Logic e-reader, a device expected to compete with Amazon's popular Kindle and due to launch early next year.
Eschewing Amazon's Kindle-only approach, the bookseller said its digital books could be read on the iPhone or iPod touch, Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry and most Mac and Microsoft Corp Windows laptops or desktop computers.
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