Barnes & Noble iPad eBook Reader Application Coming Soon

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So yes, folks, the iPad is pretty much what’s happening today in the tech world. Apple lovers and haters are keeping an eye on Apple’s progress in the first day of iPad pre-orders. The competition is also interested in the iPad’s every move and we’ve just heard earlier how one important Apple competitor, the Plastic Logic QUE eReader has been delayed until mid-summer.

But Barnes & Noble has already launched its nook reader but the device is now threatened by the iPad arrival. So what did Barnes & Noble think of in order to put up a good fight against Apple’s eBook reader? The giant company is thinking about making a new application for the iPad through which B&N could sell various titles to iPad consumers.

While the initiative is definitely admirable, the only question here is whether Cupertino will actually agree with such a move and ultimately approve the app for the App Store? Apple could simply ban the app and thus consumers would have to jailbreak their iPads to get it.

Or Apple could simply allow the eBook reading app into the App Store and charge B&N for it. In such a case almost everyone would be happy. First of all you have Apple which could brag with the fact that its iPad is giving access to B&N’s more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers and getting a serious chunk of cash for it in return. Then you have B&N which will deliver content to more consumers even if they don’t actually choose the nook and even if it has to pay a fee to Apple for every downloaded title. And last, but not least you have us, the consumers who basically don’t care where our favorite books come from as long as they are easy to obtain and fairly cheap.

The eReader software from B&N should be available free of charge by the time the iPad hits stores provided that Apple will let it arrive to the App Store. It’s the eBook downloads that you will have to pay for later on, but you already know that, don’t you?