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Short Take: Barnes & Noble cuts eBook price

Barnes & Noble has cut the price of NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook by 20 percent from $499 to $399. The handheld device allows consumers to download books and magazines. It can hold at least 4,000 pages--or about 10 novels worth--of text and graphics at a time. The eBook is now available at barnesandnoble.com.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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has cut the price of NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook by 20 percent from $499 to $399. The handheld device allows consumers to download books and magazines. It can hold at least 4,000 pages--or about 10 novels worth--of text and graphics at a time. The eBook is now available at barnesandnoble.com.