Barnes Noble Archive

  • Barnes & Noble announces PubIt! for aspiring authors

    Barnes & Noble announces PubIt! for aspiring authors

    Everyone has a book in them, right? Well Barnes & Noble wants to give you the opportunity to push that book in front of a few million people using their PubIt! service. The new service allows you to upload a document, convert it to epub, and sell it on their B&N reader system, including on [...]

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  • Go to Barnes & Noble, get a free e-book

    Go to Barnes & Noble, get a free e-book

    Do you have a nook or the less elegantly named iRex DR800SG? If so, get thee to a Barnes & Noble store to participate in the new Fun and Free e-books promotion. It's a pretty simple concept: you waltz into a Barnes & Noble store, get an access code, then download a free e-book. Done and done.

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  • Barnes & Noble launches Affiliate Program, will pay 6% commission on nook sales

    Barnes & Noble launches Affiliate Program, will pay 6% commission on nook sales

    According to Best-eReaders.com, Barnes & Noble just sent out an email to its business partners, announcing that will start paying a 6% commission fee on sales of nook devices, ebooks, warranties and accessories. Commissions will be paid on shipped orders only.

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  • B&N confirms Nook shipment delay, says only “very small percentage” affected

    B&N confirms Nook shipment delay, says only “very small percentage” affected

    The Barnes & Noble Senior VP of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Mary Ellen Keating, just confirmed to us that indeed some Nook orders were pushed back again. She claims that only a very small percentage of customers will not receive their Nook before Christmas though. B&N apparently offered affected customers both a holiday certificate in case the Nook was a gift and the $100 BN.com gift card we learned about from a commenter yesterday. It's hard to feel sympathetic to B&N. The bookseller obviously misjudged customer demand from the start, but inventory and supply management should have seen this latest shipping problem a lot earlier. Our tipster ordered his Nook back on November 12th and saw his order constantly pushed back at the last minute, which was no doubt a ploy by B&N to keep cancellations down to a minimum. All it takes to keep most consumers happy is timely, honest communication, not emails days after the delay is obvious.

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  • Nook is getting it in the noots

    Nook is getting it in the noots

    Man, B&N can't get a break. David Pogue, the only tech writer who still likes to cuddle, hates him the Nook. The device is unresponsive, the color touchscreen is dumb, and those "million books" the Nook offers? Most of them err janky Google scans. His bottom line?
    To use the technical term, it’s slower than an anesthetized slug in winter.

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  • Kindle for PC. I Bet You Look Good On a Touchscreen

    Kindle for PC. I Bet You Look Good On a Touchscreen

    Amazon has just made their new Kindle for PC available for pre-order online, a move that turns almost any PC in the entire world into a fully-fledged ereader. The software comes on the heels of all of the big Win7 announcements today evens up the playing fields when it comes to PC-based ereaders. Amazon has long had the Kindle but Barnes & Noble launched a PC ereader long before Amazon, putting them at a disadvantage. B&N also has versions of their reader for OS X, BlackBerry smartphones, and the iPhone/Touch.

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  • The $259, dual-screen Barnes & Noble Nook reader gets official

    The $259, dual-screen Barnes & Noble Nook reader gets official

    The Barnes & Noble Nook reader is here and boy is it hot. Just like yesterday’s WSJ report stated, it will be available for $259 and sport dual touchscreens along with wireless courtesy of WiFi and AT&T 3G wireless. Battery life isn’t too shabby either with a reported 10 day life off of an 3.5 [...]

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  • The Barnes & Noble Nook reader to be revealed and available tomorrow for $259

    The Barnes & Noble Nook reader to be revealed and available tomorrow for $259

    That's no fun. Barnes & Noble was probably expecting to get all the attention tomorrow with its fancy-pants press conference, but the Wall Street Journal had to go ruin all the fun by letting the Nook ebook reader out of the bag today. Yeah, that's the name. Nook.

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  • Barnes & Noble has a color ebook reader in the works

    Barnes & Noble has a color ebook reader in the works

    Plastic Logic is building a color ebook reader for Barnes & Noble. It’s slated for a Spring 2010 launch and theres is no word on Android powering the device. It will run the Barnes & Noble e-book software. That’s all we know. Questions? I hope not, because all we know comes from the video above.

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  • Rumor: Android will power Barnes & Noble’s eReader

    Rumor: Android will power Barnes & Noble’s eReader

    With the success of the Kindle clear, it's no surprise that other booksellers want in on the action too. Barnes & Noble already launched its ebook store and the iRex DR 800SG will be the first device to run it. However, a WSJ report is suggesting that Barnes & Noble is prepping its own, self-branded device. And get this, it might run Android.

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  • New Barnes & Noble E-book Store to Power Plastic Logic Reader

    New Barnes & Noble E-book Store to Power Plastic Logic Reader

    Barnes & Noble is getting into the e-books business, all guns blazing, as it announced a new expanded e-book store that will be available across different devices such iPhone, BlackBerry and the yet-to-be released Plastic Logic e-reader. The company’s e-book store will have more than 700,000 titles, compared to the 300,000 or so that its closest [...]

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