Barnes Noble took the bold, but clever step of letting users lend e books to each other for up to two weeks at a time. That encourages more hardware sales (if I had a Nook, I’d want my friends to own one too), which in turn will lead to more book sales. Nook also supports the open ePub format, dealing a little more damage to Amazon’s proprietary store.
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Barnes Noble took the bold, but clever step of letting users lend e books to each other for up to two weeks at a time. That encourages more hardware sales (if I had a Nook, I’d want my friends to own one too), which in turn will lead to more book sales. Nook also supports the open ePub format, dealing a little more damage to Amazon’s proprietary store.