• ZDNet, Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:56 AM

Best Buy will begin selling the Amazon Kindle at its retail locations beginning this fall, joining Staples (which will also start carrying the e-readers this fall) and Target (which has offered them since June). The Kindle is by far the best-selling ereader, but faces competition from Barnes and Noble's Nook, and three models from Sony, as well as the iPad, which comes with a built-in bookstore.

The Nook is spotlighted in so-called "shrines" in B&N brick and mortar locations, as the company calls them in New York magazine's recent feature on the battle for control of the bookchain between Len Riggio and billionaire supermarket magnate Ron Burkle.

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