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New Nook With Reading Light Is Probably Cheaper Than A Divorce Lawyer
By Maggie Shader on April 13, 2012 2:15 PM   15 Comments
Barnes & Noble has launched a new $139 version of its Nook Simple Touch e-reader with a lighted e-ink screen that promises you can read in bed without disturbing your sleeping spouse. More »

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Barnes & Noble Eyeing The Idea Of Breaking Up With Nook
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 5, 2012 1:00 PM   58 Comments
Things with Barnes & Noble and its main squeeze Nook are a little frosty at the moment, as the company says it's looking to separate from the costly e-book business. B&N didn't do as well in the e-reader market this year, and keeping the relationship going would be more expensive than they'd like. More »

Barnes & Noble Now Selling Electronics, Furniture, Rugs & Just About Everything Else
By Chris Morran on October 20, 2011 12:19 PM   31 Comments
For years, Barnes & Noble's website has been competing with Amazon for the online book market. The two companies even square off directly in the realm of ebooks, each selling its own proprietary eReader. But aside from dabbling in music and movies, B&N has let Amazon be the online superstore where you can buy almost anything. Until now. More »

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Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Physical Copies Of Kindle Exclusive Comics
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 10, 2011 1:00 PM   71 Comments
After DC Comics gave exclusive digital rights to Amazon for a few of its comic book titles, Barnes & Noble is getting revenge by refusing to sell physical copies of those books in its stores. More »

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Barnes & Noble Greets Borders Customers With Letter From CEO
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 3, 2011 8:30 AM   47 Comments
Now that Borders has gone belly-up, Barnes & Noble could totally sweep in and be all like, "na na na na na na!" But instead, it seems they're taking the high road and being pretty cool to the formers Borders customers grieving over their bookstore. More »

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Touchpad Seekers Flood Barnes & Noble Phone Lines During Textbook Season
By Laura Northrup on August 23, 2011 2:06 PM   35 Comments
James ordered his law school books for the semester from Barnes & Noble, and an issue that would only be a tiny hiccup under normal circumstances is now holding the whole darn thing up. That's because customer service lines are so flooded with customers calling about their HP Touchpad orders that he can't even get through. More »

Nook Beats Kindle In Consumer Reports Ratings

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By Ben Popken on June 17, 2011 3:00 PM   76 Comments
For the first time ever, a Nook has beaten the Kindle in the Consumer Reports ratings. More »

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Barnes & Noble Unveils Its New Nook Simple Touch Reader
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 25, 2011 10:15 AM   56 Comments
Fans of the Nook e-reader who don't want to shell out $250 for the color version will be happy to hear that Barnes & Nobles has finally introduced its newest, cheaper e-Reader today, turning up the heat for Amazon's Kindle. More »

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No One Has The Power To Refund My Barnes & Noble/GameStop Order
By Laura Northrup on March 4, 2011 10:35 AM   31 Comments
When you buy a video game from Barnes & Noble online, the order is actually fulfilled by GameStop. A nice little bit of corporate synergy and specialization, right? The problem is that when you make a mistake or something goes wrong with your order, you enter a strange state of e-commerce purgatory, with each retailer claiming that the other is the only one empowered to change or cancel your order. That's what happened to Patrick, whose order has now lurked in corporate synergy purgatory for an entire month. More »

(Colleen AF Venable)

When Do Chain Stores Become Part Of The 'Neighborhood Fabric'?
By Chris Morran on August 31, 2010 2:34 PM   54 Comments
Two decades ago, when Barnes & Noble stores began popping up in every shopping center, strip mall and vacant lot in America, community advocates and fans of locally owned stores pointed at the chain as another example of a homogenized corporation coming in and erasing part of a neighborhood's identity. But people still shopped there, and most people have gotten accustomed to the B&N being part of their local landscape. So much so that the NY Times has penned an elegy to one Manhattan Barnes & Noble that is closing its doors. More »

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E-Readers Getting Rolled Under Tablet Juggernaut
By Mary Beth Quirk on July 25, 2010 2:32 PM   59 Comments
Remember when e-readers like the Kindle came out and everyone got all excited and companies jumped in to copy them and make their own e-readers? Yeah, turns out that wasn't such a good idea. Seems if you're not Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Sony, your e-reader model won't survive the onslaught of tablets like the iPad. More »

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Up-To-The-Minute Coupon Codes For Hot Sales
By Ben Popken on June 23, 2010 2:00 PM   8 Comments
The deal aficionados on the FatWallet message boards have various discussion threads devoted to providing the most current coupons for a slew of stores. Rather then dig for them, here's a master list of their official store coupons and clearance threads. Members routinely get rid of dead coupons and post new ones, so this is definitely one to bookmark: More »

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A Weird And Expensive Way To Get A Free Cup Of Coffee At A Bookstore
By Phil Villarreal on June 8, 2010 9:00 AM   48 Comments
If you're one of the few people who own a Nook and enjoy taking it to Barnes & Noble to read a digital file you bought rather than paging through something off the shelf for free, you're in luck this month. Barnes & Noble has some free coffee to reward your labor intensive, counterproductive, fiscally unsound practices. More »

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Once You Break Your Nook, No One Can Repair It
By Laura Northrup on April 3, 2010 6:01 PM   58 Comments
If you buy a nook from Barnes & Noble and think there might be any possibility whatsoever that you could drop it, be sure to buy a protection plan for it. That's because if the nook breaks and you didn't buy an extended warranty, no one at Barnes and Noble can fix it. Not even if you offer to pay for the repairs. More »

Borders Gets Into Ebook Business, Relaunches Shortcovers As Kobo Books
By Chris Walters on December 16, 2009 5:26 PM   28 Comments
Shortcovers, an ebook retailer that I recommended to a Sony Reader owner last month, has morphed into something called kobobooks.com, and it's now partially owned by Borders. If you own an ereader other than a Kindle, or if you read ebooks primarily on a smartphone, you might want to add it to your list of sources for ebooks. More »

Barnes & Noble Says They'll Accept Gift Cards For Ebooks Before Christmas
By Chris Walters on November 16, 2009 11:23 PM   18 Comments

—>Apparently Barnes & Noble meant it when they said that they were looking into the gift card issue for ebook purchases. Currently, B&N gift cards can't be used to buy ebooks, but a new post on one of the company's blogs says that should change by mid-December.  More »

You Can't Use A Barnes & Noble Gift Card For Ebooks
By Chris Walters on November 13, 2009 11:20 PM   63 Comments

—>Update: Barnes & Noble says they're changing this policy. If you or someone you know is getting a nook, Barnes & Noble's version of the Kindle, this year and you want to use a gift card to fill it with books, forget it. For mysterious reasons, the retailer won't allow it. (By contrast, Amazon does.)  More »

B&N Ebook Reader Lets You Loan A Book Just Once
By Chris Walters on October 23, 2009 2:52 AM   93 Comments

—>One of the big selling points about the Nook, the new ebook reader introduced this week by Barnes & Noble, is that unlike Amazon they'll let you virtually "loan" your ebook to a friend for up to 14 days (if the publisher allows it). What they don't tell you—some smart readers over at MobileRead sussed it out—is that you can only do this one time per book. You'd better lend wisely—and your friend had better finish that book within 14 days.  More »

B&N Wraps Public Domain Books In DRM To Protect Authors' Copyrights. What?
By Chris Walters on July 29, 2009 11:17 PM   45 Comments

—>The ebook "war" is a race to the bottom, apparently, with Barnes & Noble trying to out-do Amazon on DRM stupidity. A reader emailed B&N customer service to point out that their "free books" offer consists of 5 public domain titles that are no longer protected under copyright, yet are still locked down with digital rights management (DRM). Their response? "For copyright protection purposes, these files are encrypted and cannot be converted or printed."  More »

Free Wifi For All At Barnes & Noble Stores
By Chris Walters on July 28, 2009 10:44 PM   35 Comments

—>The new ebook offering from Barnes & Noble may not be that compelling—it's all the DRM badness of Amazon, but not always the lower prices—and yet something awesome has come out of it. Starting immediately, all customers can access free Wi-Fi in any B&N store.  More »