Whatever subcontractor is now running B&N Press on behalf of Barnes & Noble sure is doing a bang up job. They just announced a bevy of new features, including: Print...
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Barnes & Noble Toys With Idea of Copying Indie Bookstores
Indie booksellers figured out 5 years, 8 years, or even a decade ago that the best way to compete with Amazon is do what it cannot: host events, and...
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The Barnes & Noble Board is Up to Something Hinky With the B&N Stock Price
The same board that has been paying dividends despite falling revenues has come up with a plan to do - well, I'm not sure what. At first glance it...
Continue readingBarnes & Noble Revenues Down 6.9% in 1Q2019
Barnes & Noble just released their financial report for the first full quarter following the wholesale sacking of its more experienced (and expensive employees), and the news is not good....
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Demos Parneros Files Wrongful Termination Suit Against B&N
The publishing industry had more questions than answers when Barnes & Noble abruptly fired its CEO last month. Demos Parneros was terminated with no notice or severance package, leaving...
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Barnes & Noble is Removing Nook Kiosks From Stores
A couple sources have told me, and I have confirmed first hand, that B&N has removed the Nook kiosks that used to occupy prime square footage in most Barnes...
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Shelf Awareness Launches B&N CEO Hunt
Barnes & Noble is currently looking for its fifty millionth CEO in the past five years, and the Shelf Awareness newsletter wants to help. They have proposed that, rather...
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Riggio Has 99 Problems, But Saving B&N Ain’t One
Remember last Friday when I described B&N's road map as "throw ideas up against the wall and see what sticks"? Apparently my snark struck home. The NYTimes published a...
Continue readingPublishers Tired of Revolving Door in B&N C-Suite – Who Isn’t?
Barnes & Noble's clown-car operation is immensely entertaining to some in the industry but publishers aren't amused. The WSJ reports that publisher met with Len Riggio's tailor to express...
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Nook Press Opens Its Doors to Authors in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Barnes & Noble's publisher portal sent an email yesterday to authors announcing that it wasn't dead - in fact, it even started accepting authors from outside the US. From...
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Investment Group Buys 5.7% Stake in B&N, Demands Replacement of Len Riggio’s Taxidermist
A serial Barnes & Noble investor has just re-invested in the company. Their presence will add strife and make it harder to turn the company around. From PW: An...
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Barnes & Noble Just Sacked CEO Demos Parneros
B&N just fired its latest CEO, Demos Parneros , who had been with the company for less than two year/years and had held the...
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How to Tell if You Need to Install a Security Update On Your Older Barnes & Noble Nook
Here is a quick PSA to ensure that Nook owners make sure their devices get the latest security update. Barnes & Noble has announced that it is updating its...
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook Division Generated $111 Million Last Year, and Employs 57 People
B&N's once mighty ebook division has fallen on hard times. What at one point was a billion dollar a year business has now shrunk to the point that there...
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David Leonhardt Wants to Save Barnes & Noble, But Has to Make Up Stuff About Amazon to Justify It
The NY Times has published some stinker editorials lately (Ross Douthat's piece springs to mind), including an editorial by David Leonhardt that was published on the NYTimes site yesterday....
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