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Sales Erode at Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Inc.’s latest quarterly earnings show an erosion in sales for both print books and e-books, casting a cloud over its long-term prospects.Voices
Publishing Executive Larry Kirshbaum to Leave Amazon
One of Amazon.com Inc.’s top book- publishing executives, Laurence Kirshbaum, will leave early next year, Amazon said, a sign of the difficulties the retailer has had in establishing itself as a major book publisher.Voices
Publishing Hears Echoes of Netflix Business Model
Offering unlimited television shows and music for a flat monthly fee has worked for Netflix Inc. and Spotify AB. Will it work in the book industry?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.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.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
News Corp. Unit Interested in Penguin Group
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has expressed interest in buying book publisher Penguin Group, potentially undermining merger discussions between Penguin and Random House, people familiar with the situation said.Voices
Missing From Surface Tablet: Barnes & Noble’s Nook App
When Microsoft agreed to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s new subsidiary Nook Media LLC earlier this year, Barnes & Noble committed to creating a Nook e-reading app for Microsoft’s new Surface tablet. But with the tablet’s release Friday, that app is missing in action.Voices
Barnes & Noble Warns of Data Breach
Barnes & Noble Inc. said customers at 63 stores in nine states may have had their credit-card information stolen.Voices