Cnet: Barnes & Noble shelves e-books

My spin: Should this be at all surprising? Some times techies do things for the sake of technology but don’t think of REAL PEOPLE and how they will REALLY use the technology.
News Clip: Barnes&Noble.com has discontinued sales of e-books, according to a statement on the company’s Web site.
Customers using Microsoft’s eBook reader have until Dec. 9 to access downloads purchased from the store, while Adobe Reader customers have 90 days to retrieve any outstanding files, according to a notice posted on the site Tuesday. Meanwhile thousands of e-book titles were listed as unavailable
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