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Barnes and Noble

• Kick off World Book Night tonight & tomorrow

  We’ve mentioned it here before, but don’t forget that tomorrow is the second annual World Book Night here in the US. People around the country will be giving out free… Read more »

• Scrying the future in the screen of a free Nook

  Barnes & Noble announced Friday that it would be giving away Nook e-readers beginning on Sunday and lasting until the end of March. They’re offering a free Nook Simple e-ink… Read more »

• B&N and S&S still locked in “despicable” dispute over new terms

  It has been almost two months since a special January 30th Publishers Weekly alert went out to subscribers announcing “Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble in Dispute Over Terms.” While some… Read more »

• B&N earnings fall

  As was widely expected, Barnes & Noble posted disappointing financial results in a third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Sales in the company’s three biggest divisions—retail stores, college stores, and Nook… Read more »

• The real story behind the Penguin – Random House merger

  News that the DOJ had approved the merger of Random House and Penguin yesterday was easy to miss… Read more »

• Why isn’t B&N taking books from Simon & Schuster?

  On January 30th, subscribers to Publishers Weekly’s email newsletter received a special “News Alert” … Read more »

• The wrong goodbye of Barnes and Noble

  Maybe you’ve noticed that there seem to be a lot of Barnes & Noble superstores closing lately?… Read more »

• No means yes: why is Barnes & Noble selling Amazon’s Penny Marshall bio?

  “It’s something the company was quite clear about”… Read more »

• “One of the biggest screw-ups in the history of book retail”?

  A recent Simba Information report (subscription required) “posits that the decrease in the number of bookstores that we saw in 2011 did not lead to a corresponding growth in ebook… 1 / Read more »

• Amazon-front “New Harvest” close to launch, but booksellers still say no

  Independent “booksellers have become more entrenched about their decision” not to stock or display books published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint New Harvest—a front for books acquired and published in… Read more »