From the press release: German online retailer Libri.de expands its offering of international eBooks increasing its catalog up to 450,000 eBooks available in its shop. Next to German bestselling titles international customers can now find and download eBooks in English, French, Spanish and other languages in the online stores of http://www.libri.de and 1,000 affiliated brick and mortar book stores. Libri.de is strengthening the growing market of foreign language books also in its eBook category by offering international bestselling downloads from top authors such as Dan Brown, Simon Beckett or Donna Leon as well as classics. Students and professionals benefit from a wide range of professional and technical eBooks by...

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Found via Nate’s Ebook News, Publisher’s Weekly has a piece about Barnes & Noble experimenting with bundling e-book and paper book versions together. The idea is that when customers buy a physical book at a Barnes & Noble store, they would receive a coupon to get the e-book at a discount. Exact details still need to be worked out with the publishers. Certainly a number of people have talked about wanting to get both versions of the book at once. Sometimes people who buy the print book will then go ahead and pirate the e-book, reasoning that they...

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