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Barnes & Noble To Launch iPad E-reader App

Barnes & Noble To Launch iPad E-reader App

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US-based bookseller Barnes and Noble announced plans to offer its online bookstore as well as a free e-reader application for the recently heralded Apple iPad tablet device. The popular bookseller released its free eReader app in July 2009, and as of now it offers access to more than a million titles. "Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes &...



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