January 20, 2014

The only thing Barnes & Noble has to do to be a great stock, according to Jim Cramer: outlast every other bookstore. Cramer, your uncle’s favorite splenetic T.V. finance quack… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Jaipur Literature Festival becomes the place where everyone goes to dump on American literature

Sal Robinson

There is no whipping boy like the American literature whipping boy, as the Jaipur Literary Festival has been proving this last week, with not one but two high-profile authors claiming… Read more »

ReadersFirst library coalition launches new ebook vendor guide

ReadersFirst is an international coalition of 292 librarian systems cooperating to improve e-book access for public library users. After a meeting with ebook vendors and companies that license e-content and supply… Read more »

New app lets readers share their favorite books

Nick Davies

A startup company based in Washington is launching a new app to let users share their favorite books with friends, Dianna Dilworth writes for GalleyCat. Available for Apple products, Books… Read more »

Norway puts over 135,000 books into an online archive

Julia Fleischaker

The National Library of Norway has put over 135,000 books into an online archive. The Library is a ‘legal deposit library,’ which means that all books published in the country… Read more »

Melville House Books

Worst sign yet for B&N: Jim Cramer thinks they’re a good investment

Dustin Kurtz