"Moving to combine its expertise running college bookstores with its increasing share of the e-book retail market, Barnes & Noble announced a partnership with Blackboard, an online teaching and study platform used by colleges across the country, that will allow students to purchase and download B&N study content through the Blackboard platform. The new partnership will integrate the Blackboard platform with NookStudy, a forthcoming software application from B&N that will let students buy, aggregate and customize digital textbook content on their Macs or PCs."

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Source: Publisher's Weekly.
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