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NEWS ABOUT: Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble stories: 16 news summaries

Barnes & Noble Unveils 'Nook' E-Reader

Unlike Kindle, users can loan books to others for 2 weeks

Oct 20, 09 6:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble unveiled its new e-reader today: the Nook. Like the Kindle, it's a wireless device that allows for instant downloads of purchases. Some details, via CNET, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, and PC World.
  • It costs $259, same as the Kindle, and will be
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electronic books • Kindle • Barnes & Noble • e-readers • women's issues • Nook

PRODUCT PEEK

 B&N E-Reader 
 Sports 2 Screens: 
 E-Ink and LCD 

Miracle device rumored to have social networking and go for less than Kindle

Oct 14, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble’s entry into the e-reader market, supposed to be under wraps until next week, has been ferreted out, and it’s got something no one else has. Rumors predicted color e-ink—not true—but the device has “got something almost better,” Kit Eaton writes: two... More »

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iPhone • book • LCD • E Ink • Kindle • Barnes & Noble • ebooks • touchscreen • e-readers

new release

Ralph Nader Pens Odd Utopian Novel

Super-rich save the world in 736-page 'fictional vision'

Sep 21, 09 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and sometime presidential candidate, has written his first novel, the New Yorker reports. Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, out tomorrow, is a “practical utopia” in which real-life characters undertake a fictional quest to—progressively—save the country. Over the course of its... More »

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entertainment • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Warren Buffett • fiction • literature • publishing • Grover Norquist • Barry Diller • Ralph Nader • Barnes & Noble • Warren Beatty • Ted Turner

Lost Symbol Sets Record in First Day

Da Vinci Code follow-up sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Sep 16, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the surprise of exactly no one, Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code follow-up, The Lost Symbol, is a smash hit, selling, between its hardcover and e-book editions, 1 million copies in its first day on the shelves, the New York Times reports. Amazon and Barnes &... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Amazon • book sale • Doubleday • Barnes & Noble • Dan Brown • publishing industry • The Lost Symbol

 Unreleased Kennedy Memoir 
 Climbing Bestseller Lists 

True Compass will be released Sept. 14

Aug 29, 09 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy’s unreleased memoir, True Compass, is already creeping up the bestseller lists. Originally scheduled for 2010, it's been moved up to mid-September by publisher Hachette, which plans to ship 1.5 million copies to booksellers. Pre-orders have put True Compass at No. 9 on Amazon and... More »

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Congress • Senate • Ted Kennedy • memoir • Amazon.com • best seller • Barnes & Noble • Edward Kennedy

 Friend Markets Palin Calendar 

Photo who was deputy to Wasilla mayor delves into album to tap zeitgeist

Oct 31, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - A friend of Sarah Palin’s is cashing in on the mania for the candidate with a calendar, the Los Angeles Times reports. Photographer Judy Patrick, who was also Palin’s deputy mayor in Wasilla, Alaska, snapped Palin playing hockey and holding a shotgun. She gave some photos to the... More »

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Alaska • calendars • mayor • photographers • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Barnes & Noble • Wasilla

Hacker Cops to Role in $400M
ID-Theft Ring

Stealing data from Barnes & Noble, BJ's could mean 30 years

Sep 12, 08 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 23-year-old man with an eighth-grade education pleaded guilty yesterday to a role in stealing more than $400 million via identity theft, the Boston Globe reports. Damon Patrick Tooey was part of an 11-man ring, with members from China to the Ukraine, which brought laptops into retail stores like Barnes... More »

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identity theft • guilty plea • hackers • BJ's Wholesale Club • Barnes & Noble

 Consumer
 Data Breaches
 Hit Record

Thefts, losses of confidential info has already topped 2007

Aug 26, 08 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Theft or loss of confidential consumer information from computer databases is at a record high, with more breaches already this year than all of 2007, the Washington Post reports. Records reveal that 449 US businesses, government agencies and universities have reported data breaches this year, compared with 446 breaches involving... More »

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identity theft • TJX • data theft • BJ's Wholesale Club • Barnes & Noble • OfficeMax • Boston Market • credit card accounts • Identity Theft Resource Center • T.J. Maxx • SunGard Higher Education • Mandiant • Sports Authority

Retail Politics Entangle Book on Obama

Barnes & Noble cuts order over publisher's deal with Amazon

Aug 19, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes and Noble says its stores will not stock Obama’s Challenge, a new book outlining a progressive economic agenda for the Democratic candidate, because the publisher cut an exclusive deal with Amazon.com, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon’s print-on-demand service will offer the title beginning Monday, while... More »

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Barack Obama • Democratic National Convention • book • DNC • Amazon.com • Amazon • book sale • Barnes & Noble • Robert Kuttner

Feds Nab
11 Cybercrime Masterminds

40 million credit and debit card numbers stolen across US

Aug 5, 08 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - An international crew of hackers who reportedly stole more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from nine US companies were indicted today in what Attorney General Michael Mukasey is calling "the single largest and most complex identity theft case that's ever charged in this country." The... More »

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credit card • hackers • cybercrime • Barnes & Noble • computers • federal authorities • debit cards • OfficeMax • Boston Market

 Book Giant Weighs
Bid for Chief Rival 

Barnes & Noble checks out Borders

May 21, 08 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble is mulling a possible bid for its nearest rival, Borders, reports the Wall Street Journal. America's biggest book chain, with 22% of the market, has assembled a team of 30 executives and experts to study a takeover of the second biggest, with 12% of the market. Such... More »

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publishing • Borders • book • Leonard Riggio • Amazon • Barnes & Noble • B. Dalton • BookStop

Publishers
Bank On a
007 Comeback

Bond franchise hoping new author can leave book sales, fans stirred

May 8, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - This year is the centenary of author Ian Fleming's birth, but while Daniel Craig gave the James Bond movie franchise a much-needed recharge, sales of the 007 books haven't caught up. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports, the Fleming estate has commissioned respected writer Sebastian Faulks to pen a new... More »

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literature • publishing • James Bond • bookstore • Sebastian Faulks • Ian Fleming • Doubleday • Penguin • Barnes & Noble

 Borders Tests More
 Covers, Fewer Books 

Space-hogging move will cut titles 5%-10%

Mar 13, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Borders is betting you do judge a book by its cover, the Wall Street Journal reports. In hopes of catching more customers’ eyes, the nation’s second-largest book retailer will dramatically increase the number of face-out books it displays. The move, aimed at countering stagnant sales and distracted customers (elections,... More »

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marketing • bookstore • Borders • retail sales • book • online shopping • Barnes & Noble

B&N Chief Gives $20M
for Katrina Relief

Money will support building of 20 new houses

Feb 26, 08 8:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The chair of Barnes & Noble and his wife are donating $20 million to New Orleans in what may be the biggest Katrina relief project yet, the AP reports. Leonard Riggio said today that the funds will build 20 new houses in a racially mixed neighborhood for lower-income families. Those... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • New Orleans • housing • houses • reconstruction • Katrina aftermath • Leonard Riggio • Louise Riggio • Barnes & Noble

Amazon May Lose ‘1-Click’ Patent

Angry customer started campaign; online seller will get re-draft try

Oct 17, 07 5:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon may be one patent poorer after the US Patent Office decimated its claim to the “1-Click” shopping cart emblem yesterday—throwing into question a 1999 infringement settlement with Barnes & Noble. The online orderer will have a chance to re-write its application, Ars Technica reports, but stands to... More »

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1 Click • patent • Amazon.com • Barnes & Noble

If He Did It, They Won't
Push It

O.J. book won't be on shelves, but Barnes & Noble will sell it online

Aug 22, 07 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble won't put the new edition of O.J. Simpson's controversial near-confessional If I Did It on bookstore shelves, but it will make the book available by special order and online. Rival Borders will stock the book but won't promote it. The divergent decisions reflect the publishing industry's... More »

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OJ Simpson • If I Did It • HarperCollins • Borders • Judith Regan • Beaufort Books • Fred Goldman • Denise Brown • book • Ronald Goldman • Barnes & Noble

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