Items tagged with 'Barnes & Noble'

A new twist in the on-going soap opera surrounding the last major bookstore chain in the U.S. could see Leonard Riggio buy the stores and website — but not the Nook.

The mainstream bookseller has been closing superstores across the U.S., a move analysts think means they’re in trouble.

The retail giant takes a gamble with their eReader overseas, but will it prove effective?

Barnes & Noble stores, which are given leeway in what they can and can't stock, were ordering copies of books published by Amazon--prompting company executives to ask branches to pull the books.

Hot on the heels of announcements earlier this month of new Kindles and Kobo devices, Barnes & Noble debuted some new hardware: A 7-inch Nook HD, and a 9-inch Nook HD+.

We still need editors in the digital age. Case in point: A find/replace swap goes awry, replacing every instance of the word "kindled" with the word "Nookd" in a digital copy of 'War and Peace'.

Barnes & Noble has addressed one of the major downsides to eReaders--they're tough to read in the dark.

The big publishing houses are watching Barnes & Noble with crossed-fingers--if the big-box bookseller falls victim to Amazon, it could mean bad things for the publishing industry.

Barnes & Noble has announced a potential spin-off of the Nook along with some year-end financial shortcomings.

The internal storage on the Nook Tablet restricts how much non-Barnes & Noble material can be stored by the user.