Barnes & Noble is offering an in-store promotion with James Patterson that will offer customers who buy Kill Alex Cross in hardcover, plus any other Patterson title for adults or children in any format, a free physical copy or Nook Book of Patterson’s novella Merry Christmas, Alex Cross, a title available only at B&N.

B&N, which has been working on a bundling system for a while, also noted that its new cashiering system will allow retail customers to combine a Nook Book purchase with the purchase of the new hardcover title in-store, and leave with the authorization codes to download their digital purchase, as well as the digital version of the free, exclusive novella on any of their NOOK™devices.