Barnes and Noble

Last week, Barnes & Noble spilled its plans to bring its popular e-reader to the UK through its own storefront, and now retailer John Lewis is getting in on the fun. This fall, the Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch with GlowLight will be hitting the chain’s 37 UK locations, offering up customers a chance Continue Reading →

Barnes & Noble Inc. says it’s reducing by $20 the price for its less-expensive model Nook tablet computer, undercutting by that amount the rival Kindle Fire sold by Amazon.com. The biggest U.S. traditional book retailer said Sunday it’s cutting the price for the 8-gigabyte model Nook tablet to $179 from the current $199. The Kindle Continue Reading →

Barnes & Noble Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Nook for Web, which allows readers to access full books from their computer browsers without a sign-in, Nook account or software download. “Nook for Web makes it easier than ever for anyone–from Nook customers to those experiencing digital content for the first time–to access and read books online,” Continue Reading →

Rumors and speculation have been flying since Microsoft announced last week that it was hosting a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday, and that might be exactly what the Redmond-based company was hoping for. Early well-sourced reports indicated that a Microsoft-branded tablet is on tap for the event, and a number of subsequent reports Continue Reading →

If you follow the book trade, you knew this was coming. E-books, no matter whether you read them on an Amazon Kindle, a Barnes & Noble Nook, or your iPad are selling like crazy. We may complain about their high prices and even take eBook publishers to court for their prices and hardware lock-in, but Continue Reading →

There goes that idea: Barnes and Noble will not be a part of Microsoft’s large, and well-hyped event. The news has popped across Bloomberg, and other outlets such as Business Insider have picked up the story. The event, a mysterious happening that is tipped to be hardware focused, endured a flurry of rumors and speculation Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced this past April that it acquired a 17% stake in a newly-formed Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will focus on Nook tablets and eReaders. What the company may not have mentioned at the time is that the new partnership might also yield a line of Microsoft-branded tablets. Microsoft sent out a last-minute invitation Continue Reading →

Originally posted at Meng Online. This is the final post of a MENG Blend trilogy presenting easy changes that you can quickly make to improve your resume.  Most were presented in the MENGinar “How to Improve Your Resume in 60 Minutes,” available free to MENG members.  The first two posts in the trilogy were:  “Seven Continue Reading →

PayPal has made deals with 15 retailers including Toys R Us, J C Penney and Barnes & Noble that will allow consumers to pay for purchases with their cellphones while expanding the online payment company’s service into additional physical stores.Earlier this year Home Depot began accepting PayPal in about 2,000 stores. Read the full story Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Fox 5’s Steve Lacy & Tai Hernandez about Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and The Pirate Bay on Good Day Wake Up. Continue Reading →