Tag: Barnes and Noble

News & Notes – 11/30/13

News & Notes – 11/30/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Today is Small Business Saturday, and author Sherman Alexie is asking book nerds to… Read more »

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News & Notes — 7/27/13

News & Notes — 7/27/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Man Booker Prize announces the 2013 longlist “Chocolate Might Save Bookstores”.  Well, the scent… Read more »

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News & Notes — 7/13/13

News & Notes — 7/13/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Apple Loses: Judge Finds Price-Fixing in E-Book Case” on Wednesday.  If you’ve followed this… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Barnes & Noble is getting out of the tablet business.  The company hopes to… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial” and Publishers Weekly‘s Andrew Albanese summarizes both… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Amazon Executives Testify in eBook Price Fixing Case”, and their testimony upholds the DoJ’s… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/01/13

News & Notes — 6/01/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Publishers Weekly reports on a BEA discussion between Macmillan CEO John Sargent and outgoing… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/18/13

News & Notes — 5/18/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Ebooks Now Make up 1/5 of U.S. Book Sales”  (Lauren Indvik, Mashable.com)  And, from… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/11/13

News & Notes — 5/11/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: TechCrunch broke the news that Microsoft is considering offering $1 billion for Nook.  The… Read more »

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News & Notes — 3/30/13

News & Notes — 3/30/13

Worth Reading:  “What If the Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back?” (MC Siegler, TechCrunch) “A new candidate for “World’s Worst Index” — and some indexing advice” for self-publishers, from Michael N. Marcus.  As an indexer, the indexes shown here make me both cringe and laugh hysterically.  This is why… Read more »

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