154 posts and columns on Barnes & Noble
Online Entertainment That’s for the Taking
Deals on books, movies, music and more are available on most days, you just need to know where to look.Voices
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Stumbles
Barnes & Noble Inc. reported to a surprise fiscal third-quarter loss, hurt by across-the-board weakness. Most notably, sales in the Nook digital business slumped sharply.News Byte
Barnes & Noble Founder Riggio Bids for Stores but Not Nook
Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, who still owns 30 percent of the company, has offered to buy the bookseller’s retail operations, but not its Nook e-reader business. The Wall Street Journal forecast Riggio’s offer last night.Voices
Barnes’s Chairman Mulls Store Buyout
Barnes & Noble Inc.’s chairman and biggest shareholder has expressed interest in buying out the retailer’s consumer-bookstore chain, raising the prospect that the company could be split in two.eBay Contends That Sales Tax Proposal Will Hurt Small Businesses
EBay is against a bill that would require more online retailers, like Amazon, to pay local taxes.Amazon’s Love Note to Senate Backs Sales-Tax Proposal
Amazon thanked the U.S. Senate today for a proposal that could put to rest the company’s long-standing sales-tax issues.Voices
Barnes & Noble Aims to Whittle Its Stores for Years
Barnes & Noble Inc. expects to close as many as a third of its retail stores over the next decade, the bookseller’s top store executive said, offering the most detailed picture yet of the company’s plans for the outlets.Voices
Nook Loses Ground in Tablet War
Revenue at the bookseller’s Nook segment, which includes all the Nook devices, digital content, plus accessories, fell 12.6% to $311 million for the nine-week compared with the same period a year ago, the company said Thursday.Voices







