LOS ANGELES: Bookstore giant Barnes & Nobles angrily announced they would no locker stock the relaunch of all DC Comics titles after the comic book company agreed to exclusively release them in digital format on B&N's Nook competitor, the Amazon Kindle. “We will not stock physical books in our stores if we are not offered the available digital format,” chief merchant for B&N Jaime Carey said in a statement. “To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms and not have the ebook available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime.” The move comes after Amazon announced the new Kindle they are launching will come with pre-downloaded issues of some 100 DC Comics' backlists, the bookstore chain said they had had enough and would no longer stock the DC Comics in their stores. While there has been talk that the digital deal with Amazon is set only for a four-month time period beginning with the Kindle Fire's launch, and while Barnes&Noble has only pulled the book from physical locations as opposed to removing it from its website and special orders catalogs, the end result is that digital DC Comics‘ fans will have to get these titles through Amazon. The move has angered fans across social media networks, who said that the dispute only hurts B&N's sales and the dispute shouldn't be passed onto consumers. Barnes & Noble did not respond to repeated Bikyamasr.com attempts to discern whether after the four-month period there would be a possibility to see a return of DC Comics to the bookstores. BM
