Android Smartphone App for Buy Books at Barnes&Noble

Use this smartphone app to buy books online. This Buy Books app is a nice addition to your favorite smartphone apps because it allows you to purchase books from a leading book retailer Barnes&Noble by simply scanning the cover or barcode of a book which you might find at a friend's house or at a shopping venue. Take advantage of lower online prices.

Buy Books at Barnes&Noble is available in the Android Market.
Click to visit the Android Market

The Buy Books app is completely free for you to use subject to:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, INSULT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Copyright © 2011-2012 igtsoft.com

See these screen captures which illustrate the usage of this free app.

Use your smartphone browser to visit:
http://igtsoft.com/buybooks/m/b/android.html

Short URL: goo.gl/3Lj4j

Upon download completion, from your smartphone browser, use Menu -> More -> Downloaded to reach the BuyBooks-BN.apk file which is downloaded into the SD card on your smartphone. Tap the BuyBooks-BN.apk file to install it on your smartphone. Buy Books should appear in your smartphone's Applications list.

Requirements for running Buy Books on Android smartphones:

The smartphone must be running Android 2.0 or higher.
The smartphone must have networking access to the Internet.
The smartphone must have an SD card for external media storage.
The smartphone must have a camera preferably with auto-focus.

It is better to have smartphone screen size of 320x480 (HVGA) or higher. 240x320 (QVGA) is okay with smartphone in landscape orientation.

Scan and Buy

Scan book covers or barcodes and purchase books online from Barnes&Noble. Here are sample book cover images from the database of best-selling books for you to try out. Happy shopping.

If your book cover scan does not result in a match, please send us a note to add the particular book to our picture-matching database. Please provide basic information such as book title and author. Thank you.

It is very important to take a focused picture. A book cover is typically large enough such that auto-focus will ensure a focused picture. When dealing with a small barcode image, you may need to have the camera lens very close to the barcode image. If auto-focus is not delivering a focused picture, set your smartphone camera to manual-focus mode and set the distance manually to ensure a focused picture.

Suggest Books

If your book cover scan does not produce a match in the Buy Books database, suggest your books via this site's feedback page or via the smartphone app as shown below.

Operating the Android Smartphone Camera

After tapping the camera icon to take a picture of the book cover or barcode,
tap the paperclip icon to submit the picture for processing.

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