Briefly Noted | Significant expansion for Nook as Microsoft invests $300m | The Bookseller

1 May, 2012 · by · in

It has to be said that this is the kind of news that changes industries. Especially when you think about who else Microsoft is deeply embedded with (NOKIA). It could mark a new and intriguing shifting of the ground in…

Briefly Noted | Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life – NYTimes.com

30 January, 2012 · by · in

ON Homer Avenue in downtown Palo Alto is a tiny, two-story building that once housed the maker of Palo Alto Bread. It was here, in March 2009, that Barnes & Noble brought a few new hires to create the Nook….

Briefly Noted | B&N ‘developing partnership’ with Waterstones over Nook | The Bookseller

30 January, 2012 · by · in

US retailer Barnes & Noble is “developing a partnership with Waterstones to add the Nook to its locations this year”, according to reports on news site Bloomberg Businessweek which quotes an unnamed source “familiar with the situation”. via B&N ‘developing…

Briefly Noted | Amazon’s Kindle to Make Library E-Books Available – NYTimes.com

22 September, 2011 · by · in

The introduction of the Kindle, the biggest-selling e-reader, opens up library e-books to a wider audience, heightening the fears of publishers that many customers will turn to libraries for reading material. If that happens, e-book buyers could become e-book borrowers,…

Briefly Noted | Booksellers Alter App Sales – WSJ.com

26 July, 2011 · by · in

Amazon and Barnes & Noble shoppers will be able to access their digital titles via the Kindle and Nook apps on their Apple devices, but in order to buy new titles, they will have to use the Safari Web browser…