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Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays
By on January 23rd, 2012

Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays

The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a ”mini-report” on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that found the number of Americans owning tablets and e-readers nearly doubled over the holidays. The bottom line numbers represent phenomenal growth in consumer device adoption: from mid-December 2011 to early January 2012, the number of Americans owning a tablet computer rose to 19% from [...]

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Powell’s To Get Espresso Book Machine
By on January 18th, 2012

Powell’s To Get Espresso Book Machine

  Powell’s Books, one of the country’s largest and most successful bookstores, will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore. “We are excited to offer this service to our customers, expanding our vast inventory at the City of Books location from one million volumes [...]

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Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season
By on January 06th, 2012

Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season

Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season. Kobo has released its sales numbers for the holiday season, posting record highs. There was ten-fold increase in new customers from the company’s pre-holiday period, and the total number of registered users nearly doubled from six weeks prior. There was a 500% increase in e-gifting from November to December, and [...]

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Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business
By on January 05th, 2012

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business. Barnes & Noble could be a very different company one year from now. Following a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that B&N is looking to sell Sterling Publishing (a process that a source told PW “is moving along”), the company disclosed Thursday morning that it is considering spinning off its [...]

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Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks
By on January 03rd, 2012

Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks

Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks. As Apple celebrates its part of 1.2 billion app downloads last week, those centuries-past, paper-based tomes are the focus of the company’s first big news in 2012. While we’re sure it is hard at work on a budget iPad and a new [...]

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Saturday Is ‘Take Your Child to a Bookstore’ Day
By on December 02nd, 2011

Saturday Is ‘Take Your Child to a Bookstore’ Day

Saturday Is ‘Take Your Child to a Bookstore’ Day. In November 2010, suspense writer and mother Jenny Milchman wrote a blog post about what how if she ever got famous she would like to start a bookstore day for kids. “We need to show our children the pleasure, not just of a story, or even [...]

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Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader
By on October 20th, 2011

Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader

Kobo Unveils Kobo Vox, $200 Color Tablet e-Reader. Responding quickly to Amazon’s Kindle Fire e-reading tablet, e-book retailer Kobo is releasing Kobo Vox, a seven inch, full-color, multimedia digital reading device for $200. Reminiscent of both the Kindle Fire and B&N’s NookColor, the new device runs the Android 2.3 OS and offers access to 15,000 [...]

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By on August 19th, 2011

Liberty to Invest $204 Million In B&N; Ends Acquisition Talks

Liberty Media’s long courtship of Barnes & Noble ended Thursday afternoon with the company agreeing to invest $204 million in the retailer through newly issued convertible preferred stock. The agreement fell far short of the much-discussed purchase of B&N by Liberty and it was unclear if all of B&N’s shareholders, most notably Ron Burkle, will [...]

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By on November 22nd, 2010

Barnes & Noble Booksellers

Barnes & Noble Announces Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals and Steals Shop Early and Spend Less on Wide Selection of Popular Books, Movies, Toys & Games and More Company to Offer Free $25 Membership to First 25 Customers with $50 Purchase in Participating Stores New York, New York – November 22, 2010 – Barnes [...]

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By on November 18th, 2010

My First 36 Hours with the Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Via aptara: In April I wrote about my first 36 hours with the iPad.  At that time tablet computing, although not new, was getting a major boost as a widely accepted computing platform.  Since then, many tablet and eReader devices have come and gone, some never having seen the light of day (remember the Skiff, Que [...]

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Apple Now Selling iBooks Gift Cards
By on November 11th, 2010

Apple Now Selling iBooks Gift Cards

Apple has begun selling spiffy iBookstore gift cards at its retail stores and at retail partners like Target, where iTunes gift cards have long been available,reports MacRumors. The cards are available in $25 and $50 denominations.  Clearly Apple is hoping to cash in on the holiday gift-giving season with its newest e-commerce venture. Apple Now [...]

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Borders and B&N Partner with ShopRunner
By on November 11th, 2010

Borders and B&N Partner with ShopRunner

With Wal-Mart offering free shipping through the holidays, it’s clear that retailers are trying to remove potential impediments to online shopping this holiday season. Both Borders and Barnes & Noble will also provide free two-day shipping, but through ShopRunner. The new membership program charges consumers an annual fee of $79, equal to Amazon Prime, and [...]

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Study Finds that Users Love Their iPad for Books and Video
By on October 21st, 2010

Study Finds that Users Love Their iPad for Books and Video

With the announcement of a sleeker, sexier new aluminum bodied MacBook Air, you might have forgotten about Apple’s other slim tablet device, the iPad. Apparently, the device has made quite the stride in the e-books and video sphere, as the iPad is widely used to consume both those forms of media. A Nielsen study on the devices [...]

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By on October 21st, 2010

Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook eReader

FoxNews.com – Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook E-Reader.

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Jay Myers’ “Keep Swinging” Business Biography Ranks Among Best Sellers for Sixth Straight Month
By on October 07th, 2010

Jay Myers’ “Keep Swinging” Business Biography Ranks Among Best Sellers for Sixth Straight Month

The “Keep Swinging” business biography byJay B. Myers ranked among the nation’s top-selling business books for a sixth consecutive month in September, according to the Inc./800ceoread Business Best Seller List. Myers is CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc., a Tennessee-based company that specializes in videoconferencing, distance-learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. Widespread interest in the story of his [...]

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