Years late to the party but still interesting, Barnes & Noble announced this morning that they will provide free in-store wi-fi. (The bookselling chain has provided paid wi-fi service from AT&T ever since that company took over Wayport. AT&T continues as their provider–and is also the provider selected by Plastic Logic for their ereader.) Clearly one part of the strategy is to help promote their new ebookstore and link the physical stores to sales of ebooks: “All customers shopping in Barnes & Noble stores can now freely download and preview any of the over 700,000 eBook titles with hundreds of […]