BN launched their anticipated ebookstore yesterday, offering approximately 200,000 real titles along with 500,000 free public domain titles from Google, “including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99.” The NYT says they define new releases as “a new e-book for the first six months of its availability.” In a conference call (to which we weren’t invited) the company promised to add another 300,000 titles or so within the next year. They are claiming in the release to have the “world’s largest ebookstore,” though Cool-er made that claim earlier in the year as well and asserted 750,000 titles (while […]
