{"id":2690,"date":"2009-07-29T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2009-07-29T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:17:41","slug":"barnes-and-noble-shifting-into-high-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2690","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble Shifting into High Gear."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong> is charging into the fray and\u00c2\u00a0looks ready to do some serious damage. The book retail giant that <a title=\"Read about that dumb move here.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=91\" target=\"_self\">abandoned<\/a> eBook sales in 2003 started making up for lost time by opening its own <a title=\"Barnes and Noble eBook Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/ebooks\/index.asp\" target=\"_self\">eBook Store<\/a> to challenge Amazon.com, produce its own eBook reader through <a title=\"Plastic Logic Developing Barnes and Noble's Own eBook Reader\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=414\" target=\"_self\">Plastic Logic <\/a>to take on Kindle and Sony, and is now offering free Wi-Fi access through AT&amp;T at its stores to defy Kindle&#8217;s Whispernet connection. Read that story <a title=\"Free Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/141933\/2009\/07\/barnes.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0at Macworld.\u00c2\u00a0Since Barnes and Noble has already been offering the Wi-Fi service in its stores on a subscription based system, there is an audience of consumers ready to jump at the Freemium.<\/p>\n<p>eBook Rumors gives them high marks for rubbing the sleep out of their eyes and getting into the game as a serious challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes and Noble is charging into the fray and\u00c2\u00a0looks ready to do some serious damage. The book retail giant that abandoned eBook sales in 2003 started making up for lost time by opening its own eBook Store to challenge Amazon.com, produce its own eBook reader through Plastic Logic to take on Kindle and Sony, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2690\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}