Barnes & Noble has been exceedingly quiet on the ebook front since it was acquired two years ago. Once it stopped being a publicly traded company, it no longer announced...Continue reading
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B&N Press Announces a Flat 70% Royalty on eBook Sales
Barnes & Noble has always offered ebook royalty terms which were better than Amazon’s, and now they’re a lot better. I’ve just learned that B&N has changed its royalty terms....Continue reading
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Service Still Crippled by Hack
It has been over two weeks since hackers had their way with B&N’s servers, and the retailer still hasn’t fully recovered. The hack, which has since been confirmed as a...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble is Now Informing Customers About Data Stolen During Saturday’s Hack
So it turns out that my suspicions about B&N’s server issues over the weekend were in fact correct. The retailer was hacked, and has confirmed that customer information, including email...Continue reading
All of Barnes & Noble’s Computer Systems Are Down, and I do Mean All of Them
Barnes & Noble is going through the mother of all system crashes right now. Some time late Friday night or early Saturday morning the retailer’s entire IT backbone crashed, and...Continue reading
Boook.link Lets Authors Create “Universal” Book Links (Including to Libraries and GoodReads)
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 be found? I have...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt Still Likes the Nook
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 published an interview (which...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble Rolls Out an Update for the Nook eReader
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 issued an update for...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble to Open Full-Sized Bookstore in Rockville, Maryland
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 other small bookstores across...Continue reading
Amazon Lowers Minimum Price Threshold for UK Kindle Store
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 lowered the UK Kindle...Continue reading
Inside the Barnes & Noble Manassas Store (Post-Covid)
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 I made some time...Continue reading
Amazon is Making Its Bookstores a Priority, and is Now the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain in the US
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, but not Amazon. The...Continue reading
Nook Gets a Reprieve Under Daunt
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. Daunt was seen as...Continue reading
B&N is Having Money Problems
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 money issues. In what...Continue reading
B&N Warns of Delayed Payments
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 & Noble has warned that...Continue reading