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Barnes & Noble Misses In Q3; NOOK Business Up 38 Percent To $542M
21st February, 2012Barnes and Noble reported earnings this morning, with total sales increasing 5% compared to the prior year, from $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion, falling short of analyst expectations. Net income was $52 million, which is flat with the previous year's e...
Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part
19th February, 2012The era of academic ebooks is imminent, says Jonathan Wolff, but there are still improvements to be madeSurprisingly, there comes a time in life when the discussion of house prices and the quality of the local schools loses its charm. One then turns ...
Forbes Earnings Preview: Barnes & Noble
16th February, 2012While company shares have dropped 17.2% over the last three months to close at $13.72 on February 15, 2012, Barnes & (BKS) is hoping it can break the slide with solid third quarter results when it releases its earnings on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. ...
Is Amazon Destroying or Democratizing Literature?
16th February, 2012? ? After conquering online book sales and self-publishing, (NASDAQ:AMZN) is now moving into regular book publishing, upping the content wars against (NASDAQ:AAPL), (NASDAQ:GOOG) and the likes. Amazon's Book Publishing operation is going after big na...
An Answer To Apple: Inkling Creates First Industrial Publishing Platform For Interactive eBooks
14th February, 2012Inkling Co-founder and CEO Matthew MacInnis tells us that, two years ago, the team set out to build a publishing platform that would redefine digital media, starting with the reinvention of the textbook. But in doing so, they discovered that to reinv...
Four Mistakes Publishers Make When Bringing Content to Tablets
11th February, 2012Many revolutions have been televised, but the publishing revolution has already become digitized, and now, mobilized. There’s no doubt that the second half of 2011 was a difficult period for newspaper and magazine publishers. An Audit Bureau of Ci...
Joseph Sutton: Where e-Books Fall Short, Print Delivers
10th February, 2012Publishers are going back to the drawing board to see where they can innovate with printed books to keep readers interested.
How To Become a $ Multi-Million Best Seller On Kindle (And Then Move in on Print)
10th February, 2012Kindle and eBooks are changing the world of publishing but what doesn't change is the long road to success for authors. What did it take for one person to become a $multi-million seller?
Amazon Publishing bookshop boycott grows
9th February, 2012Independent booksellers join Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Canadian chain Indigo in refusing to stock retail giant's own booksThe cold war between north American booksellers and Amazon has hotted up this week, with the booksellers joining toge...
Self-published ebook author becomes Amazon's top seller
8th February, 2012Kerry Wilkinson's Jessica Daniel detective novels sell more than 250,000 copies on KindleA self-published author has beaten names including Lee Child, James Patterson and Stieg Larsson to become the bestselling ebook author on Amazon for the last thr...