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Morning Links: Should Walmart buy B&N?

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:30:56 +0000

Walmart Passed on Barnes & Noble Before, Maybe it Should Look Again (Yahoo Finance) Hydra is Appropriately Named (Digital Book World) Disney’s Hyperion Will Reportedly Sell Off Most Titles, Focus on TV-Related Books (Paid Content) How Much Time and Effort Should Publishers be Spending on Startups? (Mike Shatzkin) Kindle Daily Deals: Illuminations by Mart Sharratt [...]

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Morning Links — Time Warner; The Wizard of Oz; B&N

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:45:03 +0000

Barnes & Noble Names Book Award Winners (Good e-Reader) Time Warner Spins Off Magazines as Meredith Talks Fall Through (Paid Content) The Insanity of Making a Wizard of Oz Film in Today’s IP Climate (Techdirt) A Contract from Alibi, the Random House Digital Imprint (John Scalzi) Kindle Daily Deals: Vanished in the Dunes by Allan Retzky (and 3 others)

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What would become of an independent Nook?

Brian Howard — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:35:38 +0000

*This article originally appeared on the website of Book Business, a TeleRead sister publication. While predicting doom for Nook, as Book Business columnist Michael Weinstein put it, has become the favored pastime of the book and tech press of late, it’s hard not to read the news of B&N Chairman Leonard S. Riggio’s bid to purchase the chain’s [...]

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Morning Links — Ann Patchett & German e-readers

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:34:03 +0000

Will eBook adoption Flatten out at 30% of the Market? (Dear Author) Ann Patchett on books’ future: “I think we’ll be just fine.” (Palm Beach Post) Three e-reading tools I wish existed (Paid Content) German Book Retailers Team Up Against Amazon with New eReader (Reuters) The Three Most Important Lessons We Can Learn From B&N’s Nook [...]

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Barnes & Noble to sell Bluetooth Nook speaker

Juli Monroe — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:28:49 +0000

Engadget recently reported on a Nook Bluetooth speaker making its way through the FCC. Considering all the rumors and other news about Barnes & Noble lately, it’s nice to see that the Nook line isn’t being ignored. However, we’ll have to see about pricing. Bluetooth speakers are common. For B&N to sell these in any quantity, there’d better be [...]

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Morning Links — Layoffs coming soon to Nook Media?

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:07:11 +0000

Nook: Cost Cutting Coming (Digital Book World) New Service Offers Watermark DRM to Indie eBookstores (The Digital Reader) The Publishing Industry Has a Problem; ePub is not the Solution (TOC) ‘Trusted Friend’ is Top Book Discovery Tool (Galley Cat) Kindle Daily Deals: The Collected by Brett Battles (and 3 others)

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Barnes & Noble Posts Losses, Still Committed to Nook

Juli Monroe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:11:23 +0000

We’ve known the numbers were coming, and Barnes & Noble released its third quarter earnings today. A few items of interest: Third quarter consolidated revenues were $2.2 billion, a decrease of 8.8% as compared to the prior year. Third quarter consolidated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were $55 million, as compared to $150 [...]

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Is Barnes & Noble splitting from Nook Media?

Juli Monroe — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:26:24 +0000

Lots of rumors were flying last night about a split of Barnes & Noble. It’s now been confirmed through an SEC filing that Len Riggio, current CEO of B&N, wants to buy the retail stores and BN.com. Nook Media and the college bookstores will remain a separate entity under current corporate leadership; Riggio doesn’t want [...]

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Barnes & Noble Introduces Nook for Windows 8 App

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:00:27 +0000

Barnes & Noble yesterday announced that it just released a new Nook for Windows 8 app, which “enables customers to sign in and shop using their Microsoft account, dramatically simplifying the reading and shopping experience,” according to a release. Jamie Iannone, president of digital products at Nook Media LLC, says that “Nook is already the [...]

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Morning Links — More Bearish B&N News

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:30:37 +0000

B&N ‘could close a third of stores in next decade’ (The Bookseller) B&N Aims to Whittle Its Stores for Years (Wall Street Journal) Uncle Sam: eBooks for All (Digital Book World) Have Publishers Won the DRM Debate and Does it Matter? (Dear Author) Magazine Publishers Push Minimalist Apps Without Fluff (Media Shift) Kindle Daily Deals: [...]

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TeleRead Asks: Why is Barnes & Noble Losing?

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:18:32 +0000

To most readers, it probably seems unthinkable that Barnes & Noble and its Nook Media division might not be around at this time next year. But after B&N announced its embarrassingly low holiday season sales figures yesterday (scroll down to read the press release), that’s essentially what every media outlet covering the news seemed to [...]

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Financial Journalists Weigh in on the B&N Nook

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:48:53 +0000

We aren’t normally in the business of sharing stock picks here at TeleRead. But for the past three days, one of the biggest stories on the e-reading beat has been the news that Pearson—the British educational media company that owns the Financial Times and the Penguin Group—just invested $89.5 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media [...]

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A tablet buyer thinking guide

Chris Meadows — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:34:26 +0000

Everybody’s coming out with tablet gift buyers’ guides this time of year (including us in not too long). I thought it might be a good idea to come out with more of a thinking guide, something to suggest ideas for you to consider while you read those guides—a “buyers’ guide guide” if you will. These [...]

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Barnes & Noble to shutter Fictionwise, eReader, and eBookwise

Chris Meadows — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:37:04 +0000

Found via an email from Ed Howdershelt to the Ebook Community Mailing List: the swan song for e-book stores Fictionwise, eReader, and eBookwise. Barnes & Noble has emailed Fictionwise publishers and authors that it is shuttering the long-running e-book stores and will be offering US and UK customers the opportunity to migrate their e-book purchases [...]

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Single issues of DC Comics come to Kindle, Nook, and iBooks e-book stores

Chris Meadows — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:00:12 +0000

Seems like only yesterday that DC Comics was adding the Nook tablets to its formerly exclusive deal with the Kindle Fire platform, and releasing graphic novels via e-book stores. But the thing about DC on those color tablets was that the comics were actually sold through third-party stores like comiXology, or DC’s own app Vertigo. [...]

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