Starting this month Barnes & Noble is extending its B&N Recommends program(www.bn.com/recommends), which it launched four years ago for bestselling hardcovers like Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’s Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, to include trade paperbacks.
“Trade paperbacks are the format of choice for many of our bookstore customers,” said Patricia Bostelman, v-p [...]
It has been a bumpy year for Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book chain, with 720 stores. Sales and store traffic have suffered as the book business has shifted online; Amazon has held its early lead in the e-reader war; and early this month, Barnes & Noble put itself up for sale and is now [...]
PW: In what appears to be an effort to strengthen his voting position for a likely proxy fight, B&N founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio has excercised options to buy 990,740 shares of B&N stock for $16.8 Million, or $16.96 a share. Based on the Tuesday closing price of B&N stock, Riggio paid about $1.61 premium per [...]
The world’s largest book retailer, Barnes & Noble, announced Tuesday that its board of directors is considering selling the company in order to increase shareholder value. As the bookseller explained today, the board has formed a team to evaluate “strategic alternatives” to make sure it’s “taking advantage of [its] compelling digital opportunities.” Putting the [...]
Late Tuesday afternoon, the board of directors of Barnes & Noble announced that it was considering a sale of the nation’s largest bookstore chain. In an announcement, the B&N board said that in a bid to increase shareholder value it was exploring all strategic alternatives. Despite undertaking a number of new initiatives, including plans to [...]
Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading.
The Kindle. The iPad. The Nook. Not to mention at least thirty other reading devices or Google [...]
The paperwork for a new B&N Nook showed up on the FCC website on Friday. The hard data (pictures, specs, etc) were withheld, so I’ve spent the last couple days pondering what few hints that B&N gave us. Note: this isn’t the Nook Wifi; that went through the FCC last month. No, this one is [...]
Barnes & Noble expects to be offering live demonstrations of its Nook in its stores within a few weeks, according to industry insiders. The demos will be part of the overall in-store marketing campaign that B&N is planning for its new e-reader. The Nook has been out-of-stock for almost a week and consumers who order [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation’s two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Tuesday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening.
Barnes & Noble, the larger of the two, also cut its forecast for annual profit, and shares of both retailers [...]
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Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, announced today a strategic agreement with AT&T that will [...]
Barnes & Noble has finally made its long awaited entrance into the eBook market with the announcement of the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). In direct contrast to the closed Amazon.com Kindle system, B&N’s eBookstore will carry eBooks that can be read on a wide variety of platforms, including the Plastic Logic [...]