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
Category: Barnes & Noble
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
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
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
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
B&N Pulls the 7″ Nook Tablet From Its Site – Retired?
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 confirm, that B&N has...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble Closes 400 Stores
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 adopted this practice a...Continue reading
Barnes & Noble Pays Lip Service to Diversity By Slapping Brown Faces on the Covers of Novels By White Authors
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 House in “a new...Continue reading