Nook

Limiting Wi-Fi Access Per Child

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on June 11 at 6:12 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions about limiting Wi-Fi Internet access for family members.

Hearst Gets Its Million Digital Subscribers

Peter Kafka in Media on May 3 at 3:00 am PT

A few months behind schedule. But who’s counting? (Besides us.)

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.

Hearst’s David Carey on How People Are Still Reading Magazines. Really!

Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on February 12 at 8:55 am PT

Despite what you have read, probably online, print isn’t dead, insists the magazine exec, speaking at D: Dive Into Media. Hearst’s digital subscriptions are also up to 900,000.

Acer Targets Families, Newbies With Sub-$150 Iconia B1 Tablet

Bonnie Cha in Product News on January 7 at 8:00 am PT

Need another tablet in your life? Acer has one that won’t break the bank, but U.S. buyers will have to wait to get their hands on it.

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.