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Barnes & Noble launches online Kindle challenge

By Jonathan Birchall in New York

Published: July 21 2009 00:01 | Last updated: July 21 2009 00:01

Barnes & Noble bookstore chain on Monday unveiled its challenge to Amazon’s Kindle e-book service with an expanded online store selling more than 200,000 e-book titles for both laptop computers and mobile devices.

The chain also said it would provide the e-book store for a wireless portable e-reader being developed by Plastic Logic, a UK-based technology company, that is scheduled for launch next year.

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