Who Needs Amazons Kindle?
Posted by: Cliff Edwards on July 20, 2009 Move over Amazon, the race to electronically deliver books is heating up. Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore chain by revenue, just became the latest company to launch its own eBook store to compete with Amazon and its increasingly popular Kindle family of electronic readers. It joins Sony and other companies that aim to capture a piece of this young, but fast-growing market. Rivals have been taking aim at Amazon, which exercises more control over how consumers use their Kindle devices, the price book publishers set and its relative expense. Amazon recently took some heat for deleting unlicensed copies of author George Orwell’s novels from users’ Kindle readers without advance warning. Barnes & Noble says its new eBook store will let users download titles to a variety of mobile devices, including Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s Blackberry, pcs and Macs. The company also is partnering with Plastic Logic to offer a dedicated 8.5- by 11-in
