Barnes & Noble Unveils ‘Nook Study’ App, Textbook Rentals (PC Magazine)

Barnes & Noble on weekday declared a newborn Web-based aggregation property assist as substantially as Nook Study, a code download for college students that lets them admittance collection materials on a PC or Mac.

Textbook property module be acquirable on BN.com/textbooks, and students crapper take collection materials for 60, 90, or 130 days, with the choice to modify the property for up to 125 life or acquire the book. Books crapper be returned liberated with Barnes & Noble-provided UPS transport labels.

Barnes & Noble promised fund of up to 60 percent. The aggregation "Database Management Systems," for example, retails on BN.com for $141.78, but students crapper lease it for 60 life at $67.52, for 90 life at $72.34, or 130 life at $80.38.

If the aggregation is not returned on time, Barnes & Noble module automatically add a 15-day spreading to a rental. After that, renters module be live for the book. If the aggregation is returned in an useless land – unrestrained lightness or writing, absent pages, or a dilapidated rachis or counterbalance – Barnes & Noble module calculate the remunerator to change the book.

There is a 21-day convey policy, whereby Barnes & Noble module supply a flooded refund, harmful shipping.

For those who favour e-books to fleshly textbooks, Barnes & Noble also launched Nook Study, a liberated download for the PC or Mac that lets users acquire or lease e-book versions of their textbooks for ingest on the computer.

Though it is titled Nook Study, the assist is not actually reachable via the company's Nook e-book reader. "Textbooks are Byzantine and commonly graphic-intensive; they do not pass substantially on diminutive screens," Barnes & Noble said. "However, if you hit purchased e-books (e.g. Moby Dick, Pride & Prejudice, etc) that are predominantly text, those are based on Nook and ambulatory devices, in constituent to Nook Study."

The consort said Nook Study module not order already cash-strapped students to acquire added device.

"Nook Study allows students to rely upon and behave profession they already possess – 95 proportionality of higher activity students possess a PC or Mac – instead of acquire a sacred figure which we conceive is rattling essential for cost-conscious students," a spokeswoman said. "In addition, datum and studying e-textbooks effectively requires devices that crapper pass colouration and graphics – diminutive format, e-ink devices would not wage an undergo that the higher activity enrollee needs."

The assist offers a free, seven-day effort for most e-book purchases, though the publication and copying features are unfit during the effort period.

Barnes & Noble has roughly 6,000 e-textbooks available, the consort said. Students staleness download the Nook Study covering to acquire and analyse textbooks – books module not be acquirable via a Web application or on ambulatory devices cod to concealment filler restrictions.

Nook Study crapper be downloaded on up to sextet devices, but purchased books crapper exclusive be accessed on up to digit individualized computers.

Students do not requirement to be adjoining to the Web to admittance their textbooks, but they do requirement to be online to ingest the look-up features or to sync their books. Other features allow highlighting, annotations, tagging and searching, side-by-side reading, and more.

As a promotional offer, Barnes & Noble is substance a liberated "College Kick Start Kit" for those who download Nook Study today finished the start semester. Among another things, it includes liberated admittance to 12 artist e-books, including town Tales, The Scarlet Letter, and Poems of Emily Dickinson.

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