Brave New Chapter: The Simon & Schuster eBook Announcement
In the same way that iTunes liberated songs from the album format, books will no longer be solely linear.
In the same way that iTunes liberated songs from the album format, books will no longer be solely linear.
CNN Money | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Barnes & Noble, Inc. continues its storied tradition of making books and reading more accessible to kids with its newest addition to the Children's se...
Mashable | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology
Spring Design, makers of the Alex dual-screen eReader, are suing Barnes & Noble over their Nook eBook reader, another dual-screen device announced the...
Bruce Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
The pre-printed price, establishing the value of a book, is the temptress that has seduced the biggest merchants in the country to go for each other's jugular.
Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology
As we reported before, the "e-reader wars" are going to be heating up given that book retailer Barnes and Noble's new, branded e-reader is looming on ...
Posted 10.09.2009 | Technology
In a move that promises to intensify the "ereader wars," book retailer Barnes & Noble is planning to announce the release of its own brand of ebook re...
Tom Alderman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
With their proprietary software for Kindle readers only, Amazon has adapted a "we-win, you-lose," VHS vs. Betamax business model.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
In the online book business, two giants duke it out for our business. While Amazon's Jeff Bezos has created online shopping perfection, at B & N, an order "confirmation" really means, "We'll try."
Meredith Lopez | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living
I am, by my nature, a homebody. I chose life as a stay-at-home-mom so I could, you know, stay at home. I am exhausted.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment
The real prize for Liza Minnelli's adoring fans: the first 160 purchasers received hot pink wristbands for entrance to a short performance at the Upper West Side B&N that night.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
In case we didn't know the holiday season was fast approaching... a spate of CD box sets, hits compilations and expanded, Deluxe Editions of some of our favorite albums are usually tell-tale sign.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment
The problem of compact discs disappearing from the marketplace is worse than it was only a year ago. Store buyers just ain't a-buyin' from the labels, and it's looking grim all over.
Lily Koppel | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
In our era where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Even for an Oprah Winfrey book pick, "A New Earth" has been a sensation. About 3.5 million copies of Eckhart Tolle's spiritual self-h...
Adam Hanft | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books