Barnes & Noble

Online Entertainment That’s for the Taking

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 12 at 3:38 pm PT

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

John Kell, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 28 at 9:20 am PT

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

Peter Kafka in Media on February 25 at 4:57 am PT

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

Dennis K. Berman, Martin Peers, Sharon Terlep and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on February 24 at 7:46 pm PT

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 16 at 10:45 am PT

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 14 at 12:12 pm PT

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

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 28 at 5:15 am PT

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

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in Mobile on January 3 at 9:12 am PT

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

Pearson to Invest $89.5 Million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media

Melodie Warner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 28, 2012 at 11:56 am PT

Publishing and education company Pearson PLC agreed to invest $89.5 million for a 5 percent stake in Barnes & Noble Inc.’s digital-business unit, Nook Media LLC.