Barnes & Noble will sell a cheaper version of its Nook Tablet for $199, the same price as Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
A new report from one of the Web's leading researchers spells out what news reports have suggested: that tablet computers and e-readers made a huge leap in popularity this holiday season.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission demonstrates how quickly a Christmas tree can burn out of control.
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Barnes & Noble is charging into the cut-price tablet wars with the Nook Tablet, a $249 lightweight tablet optimzed for reading e-books, streaming movies and browsing the Web.
The rivalry is so intense that Barnes & Noble actually spoke its competitor's name:
Amazon unveils its iPad competitor tablet, the Kindle Fire.
Barnes & Noble will launch a new member of the Nook family of tablets and e-readers, the Nook Tablet, on November 16 for $249, according to leaked presentation slides published by Engadget.
Don't share with Barnes & Noble, and you'll face the book behemoth's wrath. One week after DC Comics handed over exclusive digital rights for some of its comic books to Amazon, B&N fired back by yanking physical copies of those books off its store shelves.
Barnes & Noble, one of the few "brick and mortar" bookstore chains still functioning, reported a loss Tuesday for a second consecutive quarter.
• Is she doing some summer reading? New mom Denise Richards was browsing in the fantasy section at the Barnes & Noble on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. The actress, in a blue shirt, was joined by a male friend, though the two didn't seem romantic, an onlooker tells us.
Wall Street will remain on edge this week as investors continue their search for more signs that the economy isn't heading toward another recession.
Ads touting Apple's iPad seem to be everywhere, but e-readers such as Amazon.com's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook are actually more popular with consumers, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
StockTwits is all abuzz over retail stocks Tuesday, particularly focused on Barnes & Noble, Walgreen, Best Buy and Lululemon.
Bookseller Barnes & Noble says it has received a nearly $1 billion buyout offer from Liberty Media, the parent of cable network QVC.
U.S. stocks were poised to open lower Friday, possibly tilting the direction for the full week as well.
The publishing tide is shifting fast: E-book sales in February topped all other formats, including paperbacks and hardcovers, according to an industry report released this week.
Shares of Barnes & Noble tanked more than 14% Tuesday after the bookseller missed on its earnings and suspended its dividend payment.
Libya's escalating political crisis sparked a sharp sell-off in U.S. stocks Tuesday, with the three major indexes posting their biggest one-day drops of the year, as oil prices continued to skyrocket.
Shares of Borders Group plunged more than 35% Tuesday before the market close, and fell another 17% in after hours trading on a report claiming the company will file for bankruptcy.
This holiday season, many people received e-book readers as gifts -- but what about the books?
Google on Monday launched what it says is the largest digital bookstore on the internet -- a site called the Google eBookstore.
Precious metals like gold and silver took center stage Monday as few investors showed a willingness to jump into the stock market fray on a day with no major economic news on tap.
The largest shareholder of bookstore chain Borders, investor William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management, is willing to shell out $900 million to takeover rival Barnes & Noble Inc., according to a regulatory filing.
Barnes & Noble unveiled a new full-color, touchscreen version of its Nook e-reader Tuesday in New York City.
The bookseller Barnes & Noble said on Tuesday that shareholders rejected a bid by dissident investor Ronald Burkle to expand his ownership of the bookseller.
CNNMoney: Textbooks on a budgetupdated: Mon Aug 30 2010 10:05:00
Thanks to new law effective last month, colleges and universities are now required to list all course materials online before the start of the semester.
U.S. stocks futures erased earlier losses and moved higher Tuesday morning, following a better-than-expected report on private sector job growth.
Shares of Barnes & Noble soared 26% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the bookseller put itself on the block.
Call them the new hardcovers -- without the covers.
Take that, Kobo. As e-reader competition heats up, Barnes & Noble responded Monday by cutting the price of its flagship Nook to $199 and introducing a low-cost, Wi-Fi-only version for $149.
The industry-wide struggle over e-book formats continues, despite the fact that publishers are inundated with choices over how and where to distribute their e-books.
Google will begin selling digital books through an online bookstore in the middle of the year, according to a company spokesman.
Yes, yes, James Franco is going to Yale, the third stop on his tour of schools in the tri-state area -- before graduating from Columbia and going all Ivy League business, Franco had a brief fling with New York University. Amongst those precious days he spent at the latter, I was fortunate enough to share an elevator with him on the way to one of my classes.
A Texas town loses its last bookstore. But one teen doesn't want that to be the final chapter. Ed Lavandera reports.
The bookstore was Zhuara Rivera's magical "Neverland." It offered a fairy tale world for 14-year-old Rivera to get lost in stories and words.
The first generation of electronic readers had little more than black-and-white text. The second generation had black-and-white text, simple graphics and Web connectivity.
Did Cyber Monday outshine Black Friday this year?
This has been a wild week for tech news.
Barnes & Noble's Kindle competitor may have been the worst-kept secret since balloon boy's disastrous appearance on CNN last week.
Shareholders often suffer when a company engages in side transactions with members of its management.
Georgia Keightley strolled through the religion section at Barnes and Noble in Springfield, Virginia, on Monday searching for a last-minute Christmas gift.
"Are you ready?" shouts Josh Ball, manager of GameStop No. 1,782 in Euless, Texas, near Dallas. He's standing before more than 100 fidgety young men and women lined up in the strip-mall parking lot outside his store. They've been here for hours in the warm spring air, waiting for midnight when the latest version of Grand Theft Auto - the ever controversial hoodlums-and-pimps videogame - goes on sale. It's getting close to the appointed hour, and these people can barely contain themselves.
Stocks looked set for a lower open Wednesday as crude prices shot to a new record above $130 a barrel.
U.S. stocks looked set to rebound Wednesday from the previous session's selloff, even as crude prices soared to a new record.
Unable to sell many books, Borders has bowed to its activist investors and enlisted bankers to help sell the company.
U.S. stock futures pointed to a weak open for stocks Thursday as investors remained unsettled by the credit crisis and awaited earnings from FedEx.
Stock futures fell early Tuesday after chipmaker Intel cut its profit forecast and as investors remained worried about surging commodities prices.
Despite the uncertainty over a holiday shopping season that threatens to squash retail profits in a melee of discounting, some executives and directors are finding bargains in their companies' beaten down stock.
There was a scene in the gangster movie, "Hoodlum," where a mortician looks at Bumpy Johnson, played by Laurence Fishburne, and tells his son, "That man is good for business."
Alan Greenspan's new book "The Age of Turbulence" topped best-seller lists on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble's Web site after its official Monday morning release.
This school year, many college students will break the tradition of buying their textbooks at college bookstores.
Barnes & Noble Inc. has changed its mind about the new O.J. Simpson book.
U.S. stocks crept higher at Thursday's open as investors welcomed Bank of America's stake in troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial and bet on a Fed rate cut soon.
Are your kids' toys safe?
Barnes & Noble, the world's largest book retailing chain, posted a higher quarterly profit Thursday, helped by higher sales driven by record demand for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final book in the popular series.
If you're hoping to buy the new edition of O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It," don't expect to find a copy at Barnes & Noble.
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