Barnes & Noble.com Launches B&N Mobile: BN.com Now Optimized for Mobile Devices.Convenient Access to the World's Largest Bookstore Anytime, Anywhere NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, announced today that Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com) has launched B&N Mobile (www.bn.com/mobile), an e-commerce site accessible via a smartphone, BlackBerry, and any mobile device with a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . The www.bn.com website has been optimized for use on a smartphone and BlackBerry, giving access on these devices to the more than one million new books, DVDs, and CDs available for purchase on BN.com. In addition to placing orders, customers can browse lists such as bestselling books and locate their nearest Barnes & Noble store. B&N Mobile will work from any device with a mobile browser A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable , and it has been specially optimized for iPhone[TM] and Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. users. "Our goal is to serve our customers from wherever they are, in a multitude of platforms," said Marie J. Toulantis, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble.com. "By enabling browsing, searching and purchasing on B&N Mobile, we are putting access to over one million books in our customers' pockets, handbags and backpacks!" B&N Mobile's innovative services and features include: [TABLE OMITTED] About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 800 bookstores in 50 states. For the fourth year in a row, the company is the nation's top bookseller brand, as determined by a brand's overall strength based on its combination of familiarity, quality and purchase intent, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the EquiTrend[R] Brand Study by Harris Interactive[R]. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites. General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com. |
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