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!