Description
Put the World’s Largest Bookstore on your iPhone!
The official Barnes & Noble app is the ideal store companion for book lovers who want quick and easy access to the world of books. Use your iPhone’s camera to search and shop for millions of books, DVDs, or music CDs – plus browse every other item offered in our online store. Our store locator will help you find the Barnes & Noble superstore nearest you, see upcoming events, and get directions. Plus, explore amazing, exclusive Barnes & Noble content from your iPhone including the B&N Review, B&N Studio’s Emmy-winning video clips, interviews, and bookseller recommendations.
- Searching is now a snap! Search millions of books, DVDs, and CDs using your iPhone’s camera. Just snap a photo of the front cover and we’ll find it for you instantly! Get product details, editorial reviews, and customer ratings – even find and reserve a copy in the store closest to you!
- Find your closest Barnes & Noble, get maps and directions, and see which stores offer cafés and free AT&T Wi-Fi access. Plus, view upcoming events including author appearances, musical performances, and children’s Storytimes.
- Wondering what to read next? Use the Discover section to browse recommendations, new releases, or watch video interviews with authors.
Browse the B&N Bookstore App for these great products:
- Books
- Textbooks
- DVDs & Blu-ray
- CDs
- Toys & Games
- Home & Gift Items
- Magazines
- Video Games and More!
What's New in Version 1.0.1
Added more 'S' for Speed
Customer Reviews
Perfect but for one fatal flaw
This is a terrific app, very quick and easy to use. It gives you many ways to find and purchase your title. However, this app lacks one very important (and rather simple) tool. "Other Formats." As a B&N employee I can asure you that virtually every popular title these days will come out almost simultaneously as and audio book and a hardcover. And the audiobook will be available as an MP3 download or as a physical set of CDs. Most popular books that have been on the shelf for a while have half a dozen different formats. However, when you search for a title, or use the slick snapshot option, your results may be the CD when you in fact want to purchase the hardcover, or the hardcover instead of the paperback. I can already see customers completing their purchase through this app and being disappointed when they get their product in hand, not having seen the tiny type identifying their book as a CD audiobook. What's needed (and should be quite simple to implement) is a link to all of the various formats for any given title. Add this (and maybe a way to manage your membership settings) and you have a virtually perfect app.
Not member-friendly
As one reviewer has already noted, current members of BN are not recognized. I have been a card-carrying BN member for years. Yet I was prompted to complete an iPhone member application. Why should I have to carry two accounts AND why should BN maintain data on two accounts. It seems the left hand is not speaking with the right hand!
I get it now
The camera feature works beautifully even in black and white. I shot a book cover in a newspaper review and it found the listing no problem. At first I didn't understand why you'd want to shoot the cover but now I see the light. I would like to see a wish list feature so you could save books you are merely considering buying if not yet ready to put in your shopping cart.
- Free
- Category: Books
- Updated: Jul 08, 2009
- Current Version: 1.0.1
- 1.0.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 0.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Barnes&Noble
- © 1997-2009 Barnesandnoble.com llc
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
