{"id":5025,"date":"2010-03-12T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2010-03-12T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:53:40","slug":"barnes-and-nobles-continues-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5025","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Nobles continues to adapt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for a <strong><a title=\"B&amp;N App for iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/gadgetreviews\/?p=13182\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to another example of <strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong> thinking &#8216;beyond the box.&#8217; This <strong><a title=\"B&amp;N App for iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/gadgetreviews\/?p=13182\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> at <strong>zdnet<\/strong> says the venerable bookseller is planning to have a <strong>Barnes and Noble App<\/strong> in place and ready in time for the <strong>Apple iPad&#8217;s<\/strong> release.<\/p>\n<p>This App would allow iPad users to access B&amp;N&#8217;s large selection of titles, reading\u00c2\u00a0and lending groups. Of course, Apple still has to approve the App, and that might be the sticky part, since iPad has its own iBooks eBook Store. Now we&#8217;ll see if Apple truly understands the digital age, or if resists by\u00c2\u00a0clinging to\u00c2\u00a0the worn out old notions of proprietary formats and content control. The B&amp;N eBook Reader <strong>&#8216;nook&#8217;<\/strong> is really not in competition with the iPad, so allowing iPad adopters options like shopping at B&amp;N should be a win-win for Apple, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jorgen for a link to another example of Barnes and Noble thinking &#8216;beyond the box.&#8217; This story at zdnet says the venerable bookseller is planning to have a Barnes and Noble App in place and ready in time for the Apple iPad&#8217;s release. This App would allow iPad users to access B&amp;N&#8217;s large &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5025\">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":[3,4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025"}],"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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}