While, as we'd predicted, out of necessity Barnes and Noble is moving into the e-books business, it is strange that they would first target Blackberry users with their newly acquired Fictionwise.

As a BB owner myself I can state the following: BB screens are just not as pleasant as their iphone counterparts. They're smaller - as a matter of fact they're tiny - and as much as they're great to catch up on the latest news or for reading a couple of New York Times article while waiting in the cashier line at the supermarket, they are definitely nothing to drool over when it comes to reading "In Search of Lost Time."

E-books are a growing market, yes, but, truthfully, an e-reader for the BB seems a step backward. Makes you wonder what they have in mind next....a MAGNIFIER?

Oops....it already exists!

For people who'd like to buy books from our site but have accounts with other booksellers, we've come upon a temporary solution. Our friend David Wilk at Livewriters.com recommended downloading a really cool widget that one can get by going to www.adaptiveblue.com and clicking on Install BlueOrganizer. Unfortunately, it only seems to work with Firefox.
After downloading, a tiny blue screen appears by the book title. Clicking on it offers you the possibility of buying the books from Booksense, Barnes & Noble, Audible, etc. as well as related links.