Barnes & Noble Announces PubIt! for Aspiring Authors

Everyone has a book in them, right? Well Barnes & Noble wants to give you the opportunity to push that book in front of a few million people using their PubIt! service. The new service allows you to upload a document, convert it to epub, and sell it on their B&N reader system, including on the Nook and iPad . It's coming this summer and is currently accepting sign-ups. Interestingly, they're focusing on independent publishers, which suggests that we won't see too many scrawled treatises on alien mind control in the Carter cabinet or the how the ghost of Jack Ruby is coming to inappropriately touch an older man in Boca Raton. There will be a "competitive royalty model" but they're not announcing specifics right now.