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teleread.org - 3/5/2009
Fictionwise acquired by Barnes & Noble
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Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble in a stock deal today. I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 a.m. EST this morning and he told me that all the Fictionwise sites—Fictionwise, eReader and eBookwise —will continue as they currently exist. ...
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers
— barnesandnobleinc.com — New York, New York March 5, 2009 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world s largest... bookseller, announced today that it has acquired Fictionwise, a leader in the e-book marketplace, for $15.7 million in cash. Barnes & Noble said it plans to use ... (more) Barnes & Noble Booksellers
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WSJ: Barnes & Noble Buys Fictionwise
— money.cnn.com — Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) acquired Fictionwise, a leading retailer of electronic books, and said it will... launch a new e-bookstore this year, as the e- book market heats up. The purchase, for $15.7 million , comes only a few days after Amazon.com Inc. ... (more) WSJ: Barnes & Noble Buys Fictionwise

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paidContent — ... Why not Amazon? Scott Pendergast told Teleread that he'd shopped the New Jersey.-based company to a few buyers; one of the sticking points was that the new owner had to be willing to uphold Fictionwise's DRM-free, multi-format e-book software standards. (Amazon's insistence on using its own, proprietary file format instead of an open standard like Epub, has garnered criticism from tech expert Tim O'Reilly, among others, ...

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