{"id":91,"date":"2008-12-30T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-12-30T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:01:28","slug":"barnes-and-noble%e2%80%99s-ebook-store-is-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eBook Store is Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took it for granted that every modern bookseller would be moving into the eBook market by now. I visited <a title=\"Visionaries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes and Noble <\/a>to dig around their digital book bag and see how they&#8217;re pricing eBooks. (I know <a title=\"Kindle stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com&#8217;s <\/a>over there breathing heavily, but they&#8217;re so integrated with <a title=\"Kindle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?cat=3\">KINDLE<\/a> it&#8217;s hard to mention one without the other&#8230;and I already mentioned Kindle in the eReader section\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore about Amazon later&#8230;) I was surprised to find that <a title=\"eBook Store is Closed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/help\/ebooks.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes and Noble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eBook store<\/a> is closed. Check the link to see for yourself. Unbelievable! They discontinued sales of eBooks back in 2003. Apparently, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still expecting the eBook and eBook market to go the way of the <a title=\"Adios amigo!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dodo\" target=\"_blank\">dodo<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmaybe they think all these newfangled computers are marked for extinction too. And they&#8217;re still out of it! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give them marks for consistency, if a failing grade for lack of imagination. They have since bought <a title=\"Subsidiary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sterlingpub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Publishing<\/a>, and have got a publishing service going. (I noticed they do not receive electronic submissions from authors either, so you can tell they&#8217;re keeping\u00c2\u00a0up with the times. Yah! Consistent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took it for granted that every modern bookseller would be moving into the eBook market by now. I visited Barnes and Noble to dig around their digital book bag and see how they&#8217;re pricing eBooks. (I know Amazon.com&#8217;s over there breathing heavily, but they&#8217;re so integrated with KINDLE it&#8217;s hard to mention one without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=91\">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":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}