I come to you today in defense of the beloved paperback book. And no, my relation to a publishing house does not feed any of the bias (okay, maybe a… Read more »

Back in May, we reported that Waterstones would stop selling e-books directly from 14th July and would instead be partnering with Kobo. Only two months later and (rather recent) history… Read more »

Two days ago, Barnes and Noble posted its annual sales and earnings report for fiscal year 2016, which ended April 30th. D.B. Hebbard at Talking New Media posted a rapid… Read more »

The college bookstore business is still going strong, and Barnes & Noble has found a way to improve its stock by emphasizing its textbooks. In an announcement yesterday, the company said… Read more »

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are surpassing the Gwyneth Paltrow/Chris Martin story as this year’s juiciest breakup. After two years of marriage, B&N and Microsoft have officially split, and their breakup letters made it into… Read more »

Yesterday morning, Barnes & Noble announced it would be spinning off its Nook division into a separate, publicly traded company, in a move long-anticipated by observers of the company. The… Read more »

Sony is slipping out of the ereading market. Readers in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia will find their Sony accounts switching over to the Kobo bookstore on June 16.… Read more »

Late last week, America’s eleventh favorite big box toy store, Barnes & Noble, suffered a major blow when Liberty Media announced it would be selling most of its 17% share… Read more »

In February, the Commissioner of Competition in Canada told Kobo it had forty days to abandon the agency model. Those forty days were supposed to expire on Wednesday… but on… Read more »

On Wednesday, Barnes & Noble released its third quarter results for the fiscal year 2014. The company reported a profit (though revenues were down 8.8% compared to the previous year),… Read more »