B&N Tries to Compete in Self-Publishing

Barnes & Noble, as part of its effort to save its Nook reader, has rolled out its second-generation self-publishing platform. Authors can set prices and pay a percentage as they can under Amazon's program - it's not clear what advantages this program will offer. It's clearly a good thing for B&N to have a self-publishing program, but tying it to Nook is just continuing a fundamental mistake of e-books that I've been complaining about for years: device lock-in.