Report: Microsoft to Make Bid for Nook

May 9, 2013 | DBW | 0

After months of speculation that Microsoft would or should acquire the digital content and device business owned and operated by Nook Media, it may finally be happening. According to documents obtained by TechCrunch, Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion …

Barnes & Noble Takes Big Step and Opens up Nook Tablets to Universe of Google Android Apps

May 3, 2013 | DBW | 0

Barnes & Noble has taken a big step toward enhancing the multimedia experience for those who own a Nook HD experience: Allow users to access hundreds of thousands of apps, games, movies, TV shows and more through Google Play. One …

Ingram CEO: Barnes & Noble Should Split, Microsoft Should Buy Nook

April 30, 2013 | DBW | 1

Ailing bookseller Barnes & Noble should split into two businesses — the Nook digital business and the retail store locations — and Microsoft should buy the Nook business, said Ingram Content Group chairman and CEO John Ingram, speaking candidly at …

Don’t Blame B&N…

March 25, 2013 | Jack W Perry | 0

Barnes & Noble is pushing publishers for better terms, higher marketing funds and cutting back on their initial orders of books. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both recently reported that B&N and corporate publisher Simon & Schuster …

Nook Announces In-App Purchasing ‘Coming Soon’

March 25, 2013 | DBW | 0

Long after rivals Amazon and Apple have implemented the same functionality for their app developers, eager to find ways to monetize their creations, Barnes & Noble is announcing today that in-app purchasing on its Nook/Android platform is “coming soon.” Other …

Revenues and Profits Down at Barnes & Noble in Third Quarter, Nook Division to Cut Costs

February 28, 2013 | Jeremy Greenfield | 5

Struggles continue for the nation’s largest bricks-and-mortar bookseller. Barnes & Noble booked $2.2 billion in revenue in its third-quarter ending Jan. 26, 2013, a decrease of 8.8% compared to the same period a year ago. The company also swung to a loss of $6.1 million versus a profit $52 million last year.

Bookish Launches New Ebook Retail Website

February 4, 2013 | Jeremy Greenfield | 1

Nearly two years after the initial announcement, the long anticipated and much delayed Bookish is up and running. The new book retail website features exclusive ebook content for sale, articles on books and reading by a dedicated editorial staff, a …

The Barnes & Noble Elephant in the Room at DBW 2013

January 31, 2013 | Rich Fahle | 3

Digital Book World 2013 was, as always, brimming with possibility, cautious optimism, and the energy of an industry in full-sail transformation. Within that optimism though, was some troubling data presented by Codex Group CEO Peter Hildick-Smith, which suggested that, despite …

Insights From Barnes & Noble on the Ebook Market

January 17, 2013 | DBW | 1

Jim Hilt, vice president of ebooks at Barnes & Noble, took the stage at Digital Book World Conference + Expo to share insights on the ebook market from Barnes & Noble: – Explosion of players in tablet marketplace has fundamentally …

Who Owns Your Right to Turn Pages?

November 27, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 0

I’m really confused. On November 16, New York Times blogger Nick Bilton reported that the US Patent Office had approved Apple’s patent on the feature that enables you to virtually turn pages on your e-reader. But over two years ago, …

Barnes & Noble to Launch Nook Video, Challenge Amazon

September 25, 2012 | DBW | 2

In response to the growing library of exclusive content Amazon offers its Prime customers who also own Kindle devices, Barnes & Noble will launch Nook Video this fall. The largest bricks-and-mortar bookstore chain and second-largest e-book retailer in the U.S. …

Amazon Friending Rivals?

September 16, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 0

Of the many companies that have reinvented themselves in the violent upheavals of 21st century publishing, Ingram Content Group (as it is now called) stands out as one of the most resourceful. It has transformed itself from what Publishers Weekly …

Barnes & Noble Lands Three More UK Partnerships

August 30, 2012 | Jeremy Greenfield | 0

Building on the momentum from this week’s announcement of a partnership with UK electronics retailer John Lewis, Barnes & Noble has secured three more retail partners to sell its Nook devices in the country starting this fall.

Do You Read in the Nude?

July 11, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 3

Why did you put that biography down? You know – the biography of Thomas Jefferson? Don’t tell me you didn’t. You stopped reading on page 156. We saw you. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other producers of e-book readers know …

WSJ: Amazon, Nook, Kobo Watch E-Book Readers and Learn

June 28, 2012 | Jeremy Greenfield | 3

According to a lengthy report in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon, Nook, Kobo and other e-readers observe reader habits through their devices and reading apps and are beginning to organize the data and learn from it. Of course, in the …

Is Waterstones Mortgaging Its Digital Future With Amazon Deal?

May 21, 2012 | Jeremy Greenfield | 4

By partnering with Amazon to sell Kindle devices and e-books in its bricks-and-mortar bookstores, Waterstones, the UK’s largest bookstore chain, could be sacrificing its digital future for a short-term gain, say industry observers.

Booksellers v. Libraries? Publishers v. Amazon? These are the wrong battles to fight

May 15, 2012 | Chris Rechtsteiner | 17

Four months ago (a long while back in Internet time), I wrote a piece noting how, in our research, we’ve identified libraries as representing the biggest short-term threat to Amazon’s (and others) ebook sales. As you would expect, this was …

Target Targets Amazon as Showrooming Enabler

May 8, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 0

Independent bookstores aren’t the only retailers chafing at the practice of showroom. Just ask Target. In showrooming, customers enter a retail store and, when they have located the product they’re shopping for, walk out, go home and purchase the item …

Showdown for Showrooms

May 3, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 1

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Gigaom.com, reports a unique strategy for combating the practice known as “showrooming”. In showrooming, customers enter a bookstore, browse, then select (or scan the barcode of) the book they want to purchase, walk out of …

Possibilities Abound in Microsoft, Barnes & Noble Deal

May 1, 2012 | Jeremy Greenfield | 4

Now that the Microsoft, Barnes & Noble deal that created a new entity valued at $1.7 billion is done, what are some of the possibilities for the new partnership?

Amazon’s Fleming Acquisition May Not Bond with B&N

April 18, 2012 | Richard Curtis | 0

In another coup for its book publishing enterprises, Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint has acquired fourteen novels in Ian Fleming’s James Bond thriller series, plus two nonfiction books by Fleming. If Amazon’s policy holds true the books will be carried …

Digital Reading: At the Intersection of Reading and Retail

October 10, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | Social discovery and attention to detail help readers find (and buy) more books.

Lessons From Creating the World’s Largest Spanish Ebook Catalogue

September 20, 2011 | Matt Mullin | 0

Adrián Puentes & Joana Costa Knufinke | An interview with B&N’s Patricia Arancibia: “Thanks to the ebook, small editors can now think globally”

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