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Barnes and Noble, the happiest place on earth according to me, has finally done it – they’ve opened an e-book store. Move over Kindle, you have competition.
With 700,000 titles and growing, the company is offering 500,000 of those for FREE via a partnership with Google Books.
My biggest concern, which is more like a question – does this mean another nail on the coffin that reads “Print is Dead?”
I hope not.
I spoke about this before, but as time progresses, ever so quickly, books – their ravishing scents, delicate pages and inky notes are becoming obsolete.
Pretty Books by Penguin Classics UK
Soon, I gather, there will be no such thing as high-priced ‘antique’ books. I foresee books on the whole, being ‘antique’ eventually.
How sad.
What does this new venture by Barnes & Noble mean for the future of publishing and literary retail? Does this equate the eventual end of the ‘midnight book parties?’
You can visit their new e-store here.
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Sasha Muradali runs the ‘Little Pink Book’ . She holds a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida (’07) and an M.A. in International Administration from the University of Miami(’08). She loves Twitter and all things social media, so you should find her @SashaHalima.
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