Barnes & Noble Preps a Study Buddy

With an eye on expanding its e-book influence beyond its Nook reader, Barnes & Noble today announced the August availability of NOOKstudy, a free software application for PCs and Macs that allows college students to download, annotate and manage digital texts and related material. B&N, which through a subsidiary operates 637 college bookstores in the U.S., says the program “provides students access to all of their materials–eTextbooks, lecture notes, syllabi, slides, images, trade books and other course-related documents–all in one place.”