Sounds great, right? You, Frodo, Gandalf, and a hundred-and-forty seamen who really, really don’t want to take your “Which LOTR character are you?” quiz again? But they may not have… Read more »

On Wednesday, Barnes & Noble released its third quarter results for the fiscal year 2014. The company reported a profit (though revenues were down 8.8% compared to the previous year),… Read more »

A poll conducted by USA Today and Bookish found that 40% of adults now own an ereader or tablet.  A steep increase in ownership, the paper notes that it is more… Read more »

Over the past few months, Barnes & Noble and the Nook have joined Ross and Rachel, Buffy and Angel, and Dawson and Joey in the pantheon of great on again/off… Read more »

Barnes & Noble’s long decline continues. Yesterday, the embattled public restroom released its quarterly earnings report and, as pretty much everyone expected, it was horrible. In the fourth quarter of 2012… Read more »

Earlier this month, embattled big box bookstore/public restroom Barnes & Noble announced that it was cutting the price of its Nook HD tablets by $70-$120 for one week in honor… Read more »

According to Cory Doctorow, publishers shouldn’t just be fighting with Amazon over DRM and ebook pricing, but also over data. Specifically, the myriad of information that online booksellers collect about… Read more »

The U.S. isn’t the only place where corporations are dropping ebook prices below levels the industry can support. South Korea’s largest bookstore, Kyobo (not to be confused with Canada’s lovely Kobo),… Read more »

A new survey from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) published last week revealed that ebook sales continued to rise in 2012. Ebook sales now account for 22.55% of publishing… Read more »

Old ideas are new again. Is that a real saying? Don’t think so, but it seems right in this case, in which we witness what very well may have been… Read more »