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Borders, Barnes & Noble Experience Major Losses

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books


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, ...

Free eBooks For Kindle: How To Find Them

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...

The New HuffPost Books Widget

Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books


Paul Berry

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.

Publishing's Next Big Thing and Its Next Big Headache, Part I

David Colbert | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books


David Colbert

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.

Barnes & Noble And James Patterson Team Up For In-Store Kids' Book Recommendations

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...

Barnes And Noble Lawsuit: Spring Design Sues Over Nook eReader

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...

The Writer-in-Chief

Steve Ross | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books


Steve Ross

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.

Apple Tablet: A Kindle-Killer?

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 ...

Nook Review: 8 Reasons You Can Finally Love eBook Readers (Thanks To Nook)

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...

Ten Tips to Running a Good Book Reading

Danny Groner | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books


Danny Groner

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.

Nook: Barnes & Noble's New E-Reader UNVEILED (SEE PHOTOS)

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...

Barnes & Noble E-Reader: First Pictures Leaked (PHOTOS)

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 ...

Barnes And Noble eBook Reader To Challenge Amazon Kindle (VIDEO)

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...

Former American Idol Star, Brooke White (VIDEO)

Jeff Rivera | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment


Jeff Rivera

Book Publishing: Death or Rebirth?

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media


Tom Matlack

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.

Barnes & Noble To Open E-Bookstore To Compete With Amazon

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...

Stay Alive Independent Book Stores

Nicolaus Mills | Posted 08.10.2009 | New York


Nicolaus Mills

But it is not easy for an independent like BookCourt to fight the chain book stores.

New York's Ear-Splitting Restaurants

Erica Abeel | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York


Erica Abeel

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?

Barnes & Noble Planning Kindle Rival

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....

Barnes & Noble Buys Fictionwise, E-Book Retailer

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...

What If the Book Business Collapses?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media


Hugh McGuire

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.

Culture Builds Character and Connections

Danny Groner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living


Danny Groner

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.

A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Jennifer Nix | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media


Jennifer Nix

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.

In a Blog Age: The Enduring Power of the Handwritten Word

Lily Koppel | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media


Lily Koppel

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.