Barnes & Noble Looks to Build Digital Libraries with Free Public Domain Titles

From Chris Crum at WebProNews:

Barnes & Noble is encouraging customers to build their own personal digital libraries with a promotion called Barnes & Noble Classics.

Customers will get a free weekly slate of "high-quality, special edition classic eBooks" to read on the company's Nook eBook Readers, the iPad, PC and other devices using BN eReader software, and they'll be able to keep large digital libraries of these works. They'll be able to choose from ten free eBooks each week throughout the summer until the promotion ends. ...

The promotion is no doubt a push to get people reading more digital books and thinking of Barnes & Noble as a place to get them. ...

Of course, as most know, Project Gutenberg offers an enormous collection of classic free public domain eBooks all day every day, with no promotional time limit. You can also find them at the Kindle Store, etc., etc.