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

30 September, 20163 October, 2016Barnes & Noble9 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...

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

8 March, 201625 April, 2016Barnes & Noble, Education, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks9 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...

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

30 October, 201512 May, 2017Barnes & Noble, DeBunking, Education6 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...

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

23 July, 201516 November, 2019Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Software, Textbooks & Digital TextbooksOne 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...

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

22 June, 201516 November, 2019Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Software, Textbooks & Digital TextbooksLeave a comment

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...

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

5 June, 201525 April, 2016Amazon, Barnes & NobleLeave a comment

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...

B&N Invests in Study Material Marketplace Flashnotes

9 March, 201525 April, 2016Barnes & NobleLeave a comment

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...

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

26 February, 201525 April, 2016Barnes & Noble, Bookstore23 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...

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

22 January, 201522 October, 2018Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Software, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks35 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...

B&N Updates Nook, Yuzu Apps for iOS

17 December, 201416 November, 2019Barnes & Noble, e-Reading SoftwareLeave a comment

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...

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

12 August, 201416 November, 2019Barnes & Noble, Textbooks & Digital TextbooksOne 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...

Barnes & Noble Launches New e-Textbook App – Yuzu

20 April, 201416 November, 2019Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Software, Education, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks40 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...