Borders, Barnes & Noble Experience Major Losses
Things aren't looking good for big booksellers Borders and Barnes & Noble. The AP reports that both chains have posted major losses for this quarter, ...
Things aren't looking good for big booksellers Borders and Barnes & Noble. The AP reports that both chains have posted major losses for this quarter, ...
CNET | John P. Falcone | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
[F]ear not, Kindle owners: you too have access to many of the ... public domain titles, numbering in the thousands. The problem is finding them. While...
Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
There is a cool new widget appearing today at the bottom of book articles, going site-wide next week, and we're really excited about bringing it to you.
David Colbert | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books
A reader spends a lot of time with a book. Ads will have time to sink in. That makes the medium valuable. Google isn't getting into the book business for charity.
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...
Steve Ross | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
Dreams from My Father had received a few impressive blurbs and favorable reviews, but had sold only a few thousand copies, so had been out of print for years.
PC Magazine | Tim Bajarin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
There is, however, a device on the horizon that could really disrupt the e-reader market, and may even render them irrelevant in the near future. The ...
businessinsider.com | Posted 10.25.2009 | Technology
I'm an avid reader, studied literature in school, and nerd out over tech, yet past ebook readers have left me cold. The Nook is the first reader I rea...
Danny Groner | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
Although there were only 30 people in attendance for his reading, Penenberg led it skillfully. Amateur writers should take note of some of Penenberg's successes.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology
Book seller Barnes & Noble Inc. has released its new e-book reader, the Nook. The e-reader, which has a dual-screen monochrome and color touchscree...
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...
Jeff Rivera | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Of all these industries facing revolution, the book folks are the most arrogant. They just don't get it. It's time for the old book food chain to develop a holistic approach to something new.
AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
PORTLAND, Ore. — Barnes & Noble Inc. on Monday stepped up its fight in the small but highly competitive market for electronic books with the lau...
Nicolaus Mills | Posted 08.10.2009 | New York
But it is not easy for an independent like BookCourt to fight the chain book stores.
Erica Abeel | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York
In the city's restaurants, it's apparently de rigueur to have women shrieking like banshees. Couldn't the mayor institute a stiff fine for screaming in restaurants, like the one for spitting in subways?
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
Barnes & Noble needs to find growth somewhere: Wall Street expects the book seller's sales to drop 3% this year, including a 5% decrease this quarter....
New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 04.06.2009 | Media
Bowing to the growth in demand for e-books, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest chain of bookstores, has acquired Fictionwise, an online retailer of e...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media
The book business has stopped caring much about books. Like all businesses with stock, the people running them have one central responsibility: to increase shareholder value.
Danny Groner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living
Gladwell discusses the factors that helped some of the most successful people achieve what they have. He posits that nurture matters exceedingly more than nature.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
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.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books