Article: BARNES & NOBLE WEB SITE WILL OFFER MUSIC, VIDEOS.(Business)

Barnes & Noble Inc., the largest U.S. bookseller, plans to start selling a broad range of music and videos on its Internet site early next year as it steps up competition with Seattle bookseller Amazon.com Inc. and other online retailers.

Barnesandnoble.com now offers a limited selection of holiday-oriented compact discs and videos. Amazon, the No. 1 online bookseller, began selling music this year and plans to open a video section. And just yesterday, K-Tel International Inc. said it will list its 250,000 music titles for sale on Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s playboy.com Web site. Terms weren't disclosed.

Barnes & Noble opened its online store in May 1997 ...

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