The link below is to another report on Barnes and Noble agreeing to be sold.
For more visit:
https://goodereader.com/blog/bookselling/barnes-and-noble-agrees-to-be-sold
Category Archives: Barnes & Noble
Browsery
The link below is to an article that takes a look at ‘Browsery,’ a new social network for book discovery by Barnes and Noble.
For more visit:
https://goodereader.com/blog/spotlight-on-android/barnes-and-noble-releases-browsery-a-book-discovery-social-network
Barnes & Noble
The link below is to an article that looks at some facts about Barnes & Noble.
For more visit:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/69259/14-page-turning-facts-about-barnes-noble
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft call off their Nook partnership
In the middle of yet another disappointing earnings report Thursday, Barnes & Noble announced that it’s terminating the strategic partnership it formed with Microsoft in 2012. That partnership had combined Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college businesses into a division called Nook Media, into which Microsoft invested $300 million.
Such termination will allow the Company to continue its rationalization of the NOOK Digital business and enhances Barnes & Noble’s operational and strategic flexibility. The termination also relieves Microsoft of any obligation to continue to fund support and other payments set forth in the commercial agreement between the partners.
Barnes & Noble is also buying out Microsoft’s stake in Nook Media.
When the partnership was formed in 2012, the idea was that [company]Microsoft[/company] would help finance Nook’s international expansion and that Nook apps and content would be loaded onto Windows devices, thus ridding Microsoft of…
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Barnes & Noble Confirms Staff Losses At Nook, But Hardware Unit Still Exists
Feds say Apple must give access to Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-bookstores
The Justice Department is calling on a federal judge to force Apple(s aapl) to allow competitors in the ebook market to provide prices and links to their e-bookstores within apps on Apple’s devices, a move that is likely to anger the iPhone maker and increase the stakes in an anti-trust investigation that has already produced a damning judgment against Apple in early July.
In a press release and court filing on Friday, the government set out a series of proposals to fix what it says are Apple’s “brazen” efforts to orchestrate price-fixing among major publishers.
The remedies would come in the form of a final judgment to be entered in a high-profile trial between Apple and the Justice Department that concluded in July when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had been the ringleader in a conspiracy with five publishers to increase prices and wrest control of the…
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Article: Ebooks on Nook – What Happens Should Barnes & Noble Collapse?
The link below is to an article that looks at the ebook libraries of those with Nooks and what will happen should Barnes & Noble collapse.
For more visit:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-nook-goes-bust-will-your-e-books-too-2013-07-11
Article: Demise of the Nook
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the demise of the Nook and why Barnes & Noble are struggling.
For more visit:
http://www.babble.com/tech/4-reasons-barnes-and-noble-failed-the-nook/
As sales plunge, Barnes & Noble says it will stop making Nook tablets; e-readers live on
Article: Microsoft to Buy Nook?
The link below is to an article that reports on the current rumour doing the rounds, that Microsoft may be about to buy Nook Media.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/microsoft-considers-1-billion-bid-for-nook-report_b35516
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