Barnes & Noble sued over Nook ebook reader – Telegraph.

Could get messy. This story might make a good ebook.

Spring Design, based in California, claim that Barnes & Noble copied key features and ideas of its Alex dual-screen ebook reader when making making its own ebook, the Nook.

The two companies had originally worked together on a “Kindle killer”, an ebook reader that could compete with Amazon’s device. But Spring Design alleges that Barnes & Noble failed to disclose that it was also working on its own ebook product, and claims that it “misappropriated trade secrets” and violated the parties’ non-disclosure agreement “when it copied Alex features in to its recently announced Nook ebook reader”.