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B&N Offering $5 eBooks with the Purchase of Paperbacks

November 14, 2014 by Nathan

BN Sync Up

Barnes and Noble has introduced a new promotion called B&N Sync Up where they are giving customers the option to buy the ebook copy of a book for $4.99 when purchasing the paperback version.

The deal is being offered at Barnes and Noble retail stores only; you don’t get the same deal when purchasing books online unfortunately.

Clearly B&N is trying to draw in more customers for the busy holiday shopping season. The tagline for the promo is “Keep one, share one — great for gift-giving”.

There are about 70 titles available through B&N Sync Up, including The Secret Life of Bees, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and A Discovery of Witches.

Titles offered in the promotion are identifiable by means of a B&N Sync Up bookmark placed in eligible books. When you pay for the book at the register you get the option to buy the ebook copy for an additional $4.99.

An access code for the Nook book gets printed on the receipt, or you can get it sent via email, or if it’s being given as a gift you can get a gift receipt.

This is similar to Amazon’s Kindle MatchBook program, where they give customers that purchase a printed book the option to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99 or less, sometimes free, on certain titles.

The name of B&N’s promotion is a bit perplexing, though. There’s no actual syncing going on, at least not in the typical ebook sense.

B&N Sync Up

Filed Under: eBooks, Nook Tagged With: BN

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  1. Gabe says

    November 14, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    When it’s all said and done, it’s really not the greatest thing ever. B&N just seems to be full of bad ideas. 😛

    Am I right?

    • Nathan says

      November 15, 2014 at 7:18 am

      Yeah, their track record isn’t exactly great…

  2. John says

    November 18, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    I am getting to the point that with some books – I would like both a paper and the e-book version (and am willing to pay a few dollars more for this). Hopefully — this starts a trend. Competition is always good.

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