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]