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Boook.link Lets Authors Create “Universal” Book Links (Including to Libraries and GoodReads)

24 August, 202024 August, 2020Bookstore, Self-PubOne Comment

Are you familiar with Draft2Digital’s Universal Links feature, the tool which helps authors find and link to all the stores where their ebooks (and audiobooks) can...

Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt Still Likes the Nook

22 August, 202022 August, 2020Barnes & Noble4 Comments

I am pleased to report that, when it comes to B&N CEO’s opinion on his digital division, nothing has changed in the past couple months. RetailDive...

Barnes & Noble Rolls Out an Update for the Nook eReader

12 August, 202012 August, 2020Barnes & Noble, e-Reading HardwareOne Comment

Barnes & Noble isn’t just remodeling its stores during the pandemic; it’s also updating the Nook. I was just reading over at MobileRead that B&N has...

Barnes & Noble to Open Full-Sized Bookstore in Rockville, Maryland

19 July, 202019 July, 2020Barnes & Noble4 Comments

Given that B&N has opened a smaller format store in Fredericksburg, a restaurant bookstore in Asuburn, and a small-footprint store in Fairfax, as well as many...

Amazon Lowers Minimum Price Threshold for UK Kindle Store

8 July, 20208 July, 2020Amazon, eBookstoreOne Comment

A little over two months ago the UK stopped collecting VAT on ebooks sold in that country, and I have just learned that Amazon may have...

Inside the Barnes & Noble Manassas Store (Post-Covid)

28 June, 202023 July, 2020Barnes & Noble3 Comments

I read on Twitter this past week that Barnes & Noble had used the pandemic-imposed shutdown as an opportunity to reorganize or remodel their stores, so...

Amazon is Making Its Bookstores a Priority, and is Now the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain in the US

25 June, 202026 June, 2020Amazon, Bookstore13 Comments

The pandemic has many questioning whether brick-and-mortar retail will ever return to normal. Some might wait for an answer before investing in new physical retail locations,...

Nook Gets a Reprieve Under Daunt

14 June, 202014 June, 2020Barnes & Noble16 Comments

When B&N was acquired by a venture capital firm last year, and James Daunt named CEO, many feared that he would shutter B&N struggling digital division....

B&N is Having Money Problems

23 April, 202022 August, 2020Barnes & Noble6 Comments

When I reported last week that B&N was delaying payments, I didn’t know whether it was the result of the office closing or a sign of...

B&N Warns of Delayed Payments

13 April, 202013 April, 2020Barnes & Noble3 Comments

Offices are shutting down due to the pandemic , and that is throwing a wrench into previously orderly operations. Messages are going unanswered, and now Barnes &...

B&N Pulls the 7″ Nook Tablet From Its Site – Retired?

8 April, 20208 April, 2020Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

Barnes & Noble’s hardware section is going to be a little smaller when its stores reopen to the public. Someone on MobileRead noticed, and I can...

Barnes & Noble Closes 400 Stores

27 March, 202027 March, 2020Barnes & Noble3 Comments

Barnes & Noble has joined the many retailers and other businesses which have stopped letting the public in, instead opting to offer curbside service. (My vet...

Barnes & Noble Pays Lip Service to Diversity By Slapping Brown Faces on the Covers of Novels By White Authors

4 February, 20205 February, 2020Barnes & Noble14 Comments

Barnes & Noble managed to find just the laziest but also the most tactless way to “celebrate” Black History Month. They have partnered with Penguin Random...

Amazon Opened a Bookstore in Nashville Just in Time for Thanksgiving

25 November, 201925 November, 2019Amazon, BookstoreLeave a comment

Amazon opened its 21st bookstore in Nashville TN last Friday, only 3 days after opening a store in Arizona. The Nashville store is located in the...

Barnes & Noble Axes Staff of B&N Teen Blog, and Other Freelancers

15 November, 201917 November, 2019Barnes & Noble4 Comments

When news broke in June that B&N had been acquired by the same hedge fund that owned Waterstones, it seemed likely that the first thing to...