4 posts and columns on bookstores

That Human Vs. Machine Practice Round of "Jeopardy" Didn't End the Way You Heard It Did

in Enterprise on February 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm PT

IBM’s Watson supercomputer didn’t win that much publicized practice game after all. A human did. This according to a draft of the final chapter of a forthcoming book on the matchup.

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NYT to Give E-Books Their Own Best-Seller Lists

in News on November 11, 2010 at 2:29 am PT

In another sign of the integration of digital books into the mainstream, the New York Times announced it would begin publishing e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year. The sales data will be collected weekly from a variety of sources, including publishers, chain bookstores, independent booksellers and online retailers.

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Barnes & Noble Preps a Study Buddy

in News on July 12, 2010 at 10:52 am PT

With an eye on expanding its e-book influence beyond its Nook reader, Barnes & Noble today announced the August availability of NOOKstudy, a free software application for PCs and Macs that allows college students to download, annotate and manage digital texts and related material. B&N, which through a subsidiary operates 637 college bookstores in the U.S., says the program “provides students access to all of their materials–eTextbooks, lecture notes, syllabi, slides, images, trade books and other course-related documents–all in one place.”