Barnes & Noble Announces Free eReader: eBook Reader For BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPod Touch

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Posted by RIMarkable on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 4:36

Barnes & Noble recently announced that it has launched the worlds largest e-bookstore with nearly 700,000 titles and a free eBook reader application called eReader for the BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPod touch with eReaders for a “bunch” coming in the following weeks. The B&N eReader for BlackBerry can be downloaded by pointing your BlackBerry Browser to http://www.bn.com/ebooks-bb . eReader for Apple devices can be picked up on the App Store. Once you’ve installed eReaderyou can enjoy these benefits: Automatic downloads of your latest Barnes & Noble eBook purchases and samples Access to download eBooks from your Online Library anytime Bookmarks, note taking & highlight functionality Lookup function for dictionary, Wikipedia or Google Portrait or landscape display modes Customizable font, margins and page gestures There is no question that Barnes & Noble is going after the same market targeted by Amazon and the Kindle. While Barnes & Noble does not offer a similar gadget, it announced a partnership with Plastic Logic, which is developing an e-book device that would compete with the Kindle. It is expected to be the size of a sheet of notebook paper and would have wireless download capabilities similar to the Kindle and be on the market in early 2010. This isn’t Barnes & Noble’s first attempt at selling eBooks. They actually got out of the business back in 2006, a year before the Amazon Kindle came out. It will be interesting to see if they have a better go at this this time around. [ Source via IntoMobile ]