Barnes & Noble is expanding its same-day delivery program through a partnership with Google -- but only in Manhattan, western L.A. and San Francisco for now.…
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Here’s what you might get from Apple’s $400M settlement over ebook price fixing
Apple finally settled a long-running lawsuit over ebook price-fixing last month. A new court filing provides some details about how much it might pay.…
Read MoreShould you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music?
How should the first sale doctrine apply to digital goods? Members of Congress came to New York to hear the opinions of publishing executives, librarians and others.…
Read MoreAs Barnes & Noble Nook revenues slide 50%, the company says it’s launching another tablet
Barnes & Noble's Nook segment took another big hit and the bookseller, which has cut 190 digital jobs, said more cuts are on the way. Nonetheless, it plans to release a new color device this year.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble releases updated e-reader, $119 Nook GlowLight. Biggest change: More storage
Barnes & Noble released its new e-reader, the $119 Nook GlowLight, Wednesday. It's in stores and for sale on BN.com now. The biggest difference between it and the Kindle Paperwhite is that the GlowLight has 4 GB of built-in storage instead of 2 GB.…
Read MoreAmazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble
Amazon Publishing's head honcho in New York, Larry Kirshbaum, plans to leave the company next year. The company is also reportedly scaling back its publishing presence here, something it denies. But it's undeniable that Amazon's original plan to publish traditional fiction and nonfiction like a major East Coast publisher has not gone as planned.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble partners with One Laptop Per Child to preload new kids’ app on XO tablets
Barnes & Noble and One Laptop Per Child have partnered to preload a new Nook kids' app on OLPC's $150 XO tablets, which are designed for children in the U.S.…
Read MoreSony’s not even going to bother selling its new e-reader in the United States
Sony is not going to sell its new e-reader in the U.S., citing "the region's market changes." The company's U.S. market share for e-readers has dwindled in the face of competition from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble’s annual meeting: “Look, no one is happy with Nook”
At Barnes & Noble's annual shareholder meeting in New York Tuesday, company execs said they're still open to spinning off the Nook business, but it sounds as if a buyer has not come along.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble slashes prices on Nook tablets in the UK for the second time this summer
Barnes & Noble dropped the prices on Nook tablets in the U.K. for the second time this summer, suggesting it's trying to clear out stock. The company said in June that it would stop manufacturing tablets, before switching course in August.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble partners with UWIRE to sell college newspapers on Nook
Barnes & Noble is now selling digital editions of college newspapers through Nook.…
Read MoreCome on, Kobo, a $399 tablet? Really?
E-reading company Kobo plans to launch a $399 tablet. Has it learned nothing from Barnes & Noble's experience?…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble retail CEO Klipper just sold most of his stock in the company
Barnes & Noble retail CEO Mitchell Klipper sold off about two-thirds of his shares in the company between August 22 and August 26.…
Read MoreCiting Steve Jobs email, DOJ claims Apple changed in-app purchase to retaliate against Amazon
The federal government outlined a revised punishment for Apple in the ebook pricing case Friday. It argued that Apple changed its in-app purchase rules to retaliate against Amazon. And it wants to make big changes in the way Apple does business in the iTunes Store.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble totally reverses strategy in train wreck of an investor call
Following Barnes & Noble's disappointing earnings report, an investor call Tuesday morning resulted in more questions than answers about the company's future plans.…
Read MoreBad earnings for Barnes & Noble: Nook revenues plunge 20%; Riggio won’t take stores private
Barnes & Noble delivered another bad earnings report on Tuesday. Nook revenues plunged 20.2 percent, and revenue across the business was down 8.5 percent overall. Chairman Leonard Riggio is also abandoning his plan to buy up Barnes & Noble's retail stores and take them private.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble drops Nook with GlowLight price to $99. New model on the way?
Barnes & Noble dropped the price of the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight to $99 on Sunday, making it the only front-lit reader on the market under $100.…
Read MoreBad sign for e-readers? E Ink sales plunge
E Ink Holdings, the leading provider of e-ink screens to companies like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, just had its worst quarter in four years. But the company says it sees growth in the e-reader market outside the United States.…
Read MoreGoogle rolls out digital textbooks, to buy and rent — but students should shop around
Google has launched a digital textbooks section of the Play store. So far, the section has fewer textbooks available than Amazon or Barnes & Noble, but the selection should increase over time.…
Read MoreEbook price wars start anew in the U.K. When are super-low prices coming to the U.S.?
U.K. consumers are seeing super-low prices on some new ebooks as part of a Barnes & Noble Nook promotion. So far, though, U.S. customers haven't seen prices like this.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble throws out its CEO, but that won’t save the company
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch resigned Monday, leaving the troubled bookstore chain split in two and without a single person in charge. Lynch should have done some things differently, but his job was a very hard one.…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble CEO William Lynch resigns
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch has resigned. Michael Huseby, who was the company's CFO, takes over as CEO of Nook Media, while Mitchell Klipper remains CEO of retail.…
Read MoreAmazon and Barnes & Noble slash prices on tablets in Europe
Amazon and Barnes & Noble both dropped prices on tablets in the U.K. and Europe this week.…
Read MoreAs sales plunge, Barnes & Noble says it will stop making Nook tablets; e-readers live on
Barnes & Noble said in its earnings report Tuesday that it will stop manufacturing Nook tablets in-house. Big losses in the Nook segment dragged down the company's revenues for the quarter and the full fiscal year.…
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