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Barnes & Noble Edu Still Sabotaging Students With its Digital Textbook Platform, Yuzu

30 September, 2016 // 7 Comments

B&N Education may have promised in March that it was replacing Yuzu, its abortion of a digital textbook platform, but from what students are saying that simply has not happened. The new school [Read More ...]

B&N Ed Retires Its Digital Textbook Platform, Replaces It With VitalSource

8 March, 2016 // 9 Comments

Following two years of torturing students with a mostly non-functional platform, B&N Education announced on Tuesday that it was throwing in the towel. The company announced in its quarterly [Read More ...]

Barron’s Over-Estimates the Prospects of B&N Education

30 October, 2015 // 6 Comments

Late last week Barron's published one financial analyst's take on B&N Education, the college bookstore division that was spun off of B&N earlier this year. B&N Edu operates about 740 [Read More ...]

Yuzu v2.0 for iPad Adds Many Basic Features the App Should Have Had At Launch

23 July, 2015 // 1 Comment

Barnes & Noble's digital textbook app of last resort got an update this week which may have fixed some of problems plaguing the platform since it launched last spring. According to the [Read More ...]

B&N to Release Yuzu App for OSX, Windows 10 in July

22 June, 2015 // 0 Comments

Barnes & Noble isn't going to let their train wreck of a digital textbook platform die the death it deserves; instead they're expanding support. I just got an email today with the news that [Read More ...]

B&N Posts Updated Prospectus for B&N Education Spin-Off Spin-Off

5 June, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some four months have passed since B&N announced plans to spin off its college stores into a separately owned company called B&N Education. There has not been much news to report on the topic [Read More ...]

B&N Invests in Study Material Marketplace Flashnotes

9 March, 2015 // 0 Comments

Barnes & Noble has invested in Flashnotes, an online marketplace where students can buy and sell the notes they have taken for their classes. The deal, which was announced Monday morning, was [Read More ...]

B&N to Split Off College Stores, Retain Nook and Retail Stores

26 February, 2015 // 23 Comments

Barnes & Noble announced today that they were splitting the 700 plus college stores operated by B&N into its own wholly owned company called B&N Education. For the past 3 years Barnes [Read More ...]

B&N’s Digital Textbook Platform Yuzu Continues to Frustrate Students

22 January, 2015 // 32 Comments

This being January, a new semester is starting at many colleges across the US, and that means that many students are encountering B&N's textbook platform for the first time. Barnes & Noble [Read More ...]

B&N Updates Nook, Yuzu Apps for iOS

17 December, 2014 // 0 Comments

Barnes & Noble has stepped up its pace and recently released a couple updates for two of its 3 reading apps for iPad and iPhone. The new Nook app adds support for iOS8 as well as other features, [Read More ...]

Yuzu for iPad Updated, But It’s Still Not Ready for the New School Year

12 August, 2014 // 1 Comment

Barnes & Noble's replacement for the NookStudy digital textbook app has matured somewhat in the 4 months since I reported on its launch in April, but the platform is still a work in progress. A [Read More ...]

Barnes & Noble Launches New e-Textbook App – Yuzu

20 April, 2014 // 40 Comments

Barnes & Noble quietly launched the beta version of a new digital textbook app earlier this month. It's called Yuzu, and it is currently available for the iPad and for web browsers. Yuzu is a [Read More ...]