Barnes & Noble and HP launch a cobranded e-book store

Barnes & Noble and HP launch a cobranded e-Bookstore


Barnes & Noble Inc. and HP announced that they are launching a co-branded HP B&N e-Bookstore. The website address is http://hp.bn.com. To grow traffic to the e-Bookstore, HP will start include a link to the e-Bookstore on new HP computers. They also plan to preload Barnes & Noble’s reading application on some devices.

With digital reading on the rise, Barnes & Noble and HP ope to capture as much of the market as they come and offer their solution to as many of their customers as they can. They are banking on customers using laptops, netbooks to do their reading.

This is likely one of many Barnes and Nobles announcements that will be made.

Barnes & Noble Social Networking - My B&N - books, film and music

It looks like Barnes & Noble is getting into the Social Networking game. They announced the launch of"My B&N". My B&N is a social-networking feature that allows site users to create personal pages focusing on their interests in books, film and music.

After building your profile on My B&N, you can choose an avatar and pen name, choose your favorite local stores, you advanced list feature "Essential List", Share what you reading, and participate in Online book discussions.

The information can also be shared with Facebook and other online networks.