US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble is positioning itself to dominate e-reader sales with the announcement overnight of a deal to sell the new Que proReader device from Plastic Logic. this will sit on the shelf next to their own device, the nook, announced last this week.
Newsagents ought to be watching these moves carefully. The book distribution channel is changing. Some say this is a new channel in addition to print. Others say print is dead. The future is probably somewhere in the middle.
These moves will impact, in one way or another, on newspapers and magazines.
We are in the middle of the most disruptive era for print ever.