Should Barnes & Noble Include Sample Chapters In Free NOOKbooks?

This afternoon, I was browsing Barnes & Noble’s Free NOOKbooks section, looking for potential free eBooks to feature in our regular Free eBook of the Day column, when I noticed that B&N had a bunch of best selling titles listed in this section. After trying to figure out if they were running some kind of short term promotion, I realized that these books, were not really being offered for free, but instead had a sample chapter available for free.

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