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Barnes & Noble’s two new tablets want to help you find your next book
Barnes & Noble’s two new Android WiFi tablets, the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch Nook HD+, aim to compete with other moderately priced tablets such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7. But the...
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Kindle Paperwhite is a big step forward for eReaders (Review & video)
When Barnes & Noble announced the front-lit Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight in April, the company stressed the e-reader’s usefulness for reading in bed while your partner sleeps beside you — which...
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Despite big fuss, Barnes & Noble carrying Amazon Publishing titles in stores
In February, Barnes & Noble said it wouldn’t carry Amazon Publishing titles in its stores. ”Our decision is based on Amazon’s continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors...
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Changes for retailers as ebook revolution goes global
As international publishers and booksellers gather at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, one big question is this: What will transition to digital reading look like outside the United States? At the...
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Two years and three CEOs later, publisher JV Bookish is ready to help users...
Bookish, which is backed by big-six publishers Hachette, Penguin and Simon & Schuster and intended to promote book discovery and sell books, was supposed to launch in the summer of 2011. Nearly two...
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Barnes & Noble warns investors to expect more bad Nook news
It’s only been a couple of months since Barnes & Noble downgraded guidance for its Nook business. Now the company is doing so again. In a press release sent out after the market closed Wednesday,...
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Indie bookstores sue Amazon, big-6 publishers for using DRM to create...
Three independent bookstores have filed a class action suit against Amazon and all of the big-six publishers, alleging that the proprietary digital rights management tools Amazon uses on ebooks serve...
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Barnes & Noble founder offers to buy chain’s 689 retail stores and BN.com
Barnes & Noble founder and chairman Leonard Riggio has offered to buy the bookstore chain’s retail side, the company and an SEC filing confirmed Monday. Riggio is the company’s largest shareholder,...
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As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it’s “calibrating” strategy but “committed”...
Barnes & Noble had warned investors that its third-quarter Nook earnings would be disappointing. The earnings report was released before the market opened Thursday morning, and indeed, Nook...
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B&N CEO Lynch: “We’re not going to continue doing what we’re doing”
In a contentious investor call Thursday morning, analysts questioned Barnes & Noble’s entire strategy following its poor third-quarter earnings report. With Nook revenues down, Barnes & Noble...
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B&N adds more movies and TV shows to Nook Video, but who’s going to watch?
Barnes & Noble announced Thursday that it’s signed partnerships with a number of studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Relativity Media, National Geographic, Little Pim and Film Buff — to add new...
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Hey, people who really like Barnes & Noble: Buy a Nook tablet, get a Nook...
Barnes & Noble is seemingly trying to get some stock off its hands with a new, week-long promotion: Anybody who buys a Nook HD+ tablet between March 24 and 31 will get a Nook Simple Touch e-reader...
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Book review: Former Kindle exec on Kindle flaws, Nook strengths and Google’s...
Jason Merkoski was a founding member of the Amazon team that launched the Kindle. He no longer works at Amazon, and in a new ebook, Burning the Page: The Ebook Revolution and the Future of Reading...
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In Nook, Microsoft sees a chance to compete against Amazon and Apple
Microsoft, which already has a stake in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college bookstore businesses, is offering to buy them outright for $1 billion, according to a report in TechCrunch, based on leaked...
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Nook takes aim at Kindle Singles with original content for Nook Snaps
Barnes & Noble has sold e-singles as “Nook Snaps” since December 2011, but on Thursday the company announced that it is revamping the program and commissioning original singles content. Nook Snaps...
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Not a good sign: Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices
Barnes & Noble is extending price cuts on its Nook tablets, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. B&N reduced prices fairly drastically for Father’s Day, discounting its Nook tablets between...
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Apple: Ruling against us in ebook case would create “chilling” effect on...
Thursday marked the last day in the three week U.S. vs. Apple case, in which the government accuses Apple of conspiring with book publishers to set ebook prices for the launch of the iBookstore....
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DOJ compares Apple and publishers to oil cartels; now sit back and wait for...
The three-week U.S. vs. Apple trial, in which the government accused Apple of conspiring with book publishers to fix ebook prices, is over — and now time to wait for Judge Denise Cote’s verdict....
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As sales plunge, Barnes & Noble says it will stop making Nook tablets;...
Investors were expecting a bad earnings report from Barnes & Noble on Tuesday morning, and they definitely got it: Barnes & Noble’s Nook business lost a lot of money, dragging down the entire...
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Amazon and Barnes & Noble slash prices on tablets in Europe
Consumers in Europe are getting better deals on tablets this week, as both Amazon and Barnes & Noble dropped prices on their devices. Barnes & Noble, which sells Nook products only in the U.K....
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