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  Barnes & Noble To Release New Nook?

  1214 readersAs part of Book Expo America, Barnes & Noble is hosting a press conference tomorrow morning in New York. They haven’t said what they plan to talk about at the event, but the word on the street is that it will be a new device. Some of the spec...

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  Nook HD Preorders Up 240% Over Previous Nook Preorders

  505 readersPreorders for the Nook HD and Nook HD+, Barnes & Noble’s latest tablets, are up 240 percent from previous Nook preorder periods. Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch revealed the news yesterday at Liberty Media Investor Conference in New York City. At the event hosted by Barnes & Noble’s parent company, Lynch also stated that he expects the Nook

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  Liberty Media bids $1 billion for Barnes & Noble

  916 readersPublishers Weekly reports that Liberty Media, owner of the Starz movie and QVC home shopping channels, has just bid $1 billion—$17 per share—in cash to purchase Barnes & Noble. This is significantly higher than the $14.11 share price the company had at close of business May 19th. The offer includes a number of conditions, such

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  Nook Driving Liberty Interest in Barnes & Noble, Says Source

  1236 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World Liberty Media’s ongoing interest in acquiring Barnes & Noble is driven by a desire to acquire the Nook platform, a source close to the matter told Digital Book World. “They think the Nook can take on the Kindle,” said the source. Requests for comment from Liberty Media were not returned

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  Barnes & Noble To Reveal New Nook Tablet On Monday

  2347 readersBarnes & Noble is hosting a press conference on Monday to announce a new Nook product. That was all that we knew when we last posted about it, but now a tipster has alerted us that the press conference will be given to reveal a new Nook Tablet (pictured left). The Nook Tablet will be $249

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  Microsoft Considers $1 Billion Bid For Nook: Report

  216 readersMicrosoft is considering offering Barnes & Noble $1 billion to buyout the Nook Media business, an asset that the Washington-based technology company already has a 16.8% stake in, according to a report in TechCrunch. Microsoft would redeem some of its shares in Nook Media, and take over the Nook eBook and tablet business. Here is more

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  Barnes & Noble To Host Press Conference Monday

  1581 readersBarnes & Noble has been quiet ever since Amazon’s big press conference last month which introduced a new Kindle Touch and the Kindle Fire, a tablet eReader. While Barnes & Noble already offers a tablet and a touch screen black-and-white eInk eReader, Amazon has undercut the book retailer on price offering the Kindle Fire for $199,

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  Barnes & Noble to take Nook international

  1379 readersFrom The Bookseller: Barnes & Noble is to expand its e-book service internationally next year, the company’s chief executive has said. The development was revealed at the company’s New York press conference at which it unveiled its  $249 Nook Tablet, a direct competitor to Amazon’s Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad. William Lynch, chief

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  Barnes & Noble’s Big Problem – and a Solution

  413 readers Barnes & Noble has a big problem. It’s not Amazon, the decline of physical retail or a falling stock price. It’s Nook. Nook is supposed to be the company’s white knight, according to CEO William Lynch, who told investors after B&N’s third-quarter that Nook was about to scale to profitability. In the fourth-quarter, Nook continued to

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  Bidder for Borders

  2924 readersFrom an article in Shelf Awareness: Gores Group, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles, is in discussions to purchase more than 200 of Borders’s 405 remaining stores “in a deal that would keep the bookstore chain operating as a going concern,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “People familiar with the matter” said the