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It looks like 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting year for publishers and the agency model. With multiple class action lawsuits filed this summer against publishers over the 2010 switch to the agency model (some also including Amazon and Barnes & Noble), the matter has been referred to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL Panel) to coordinate and consolidate the cases, either in New York or Northern California. According to Barnes & Noble's quartlerly filing with the SEC, the MDL Panel met on December 1, 2011, and the deadline for filing motions to dismiss

Barnes & Noble has, for the fourth year in a row, earned the top in the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization.

With all the hype around the Kindle Fire it's easy to forget about the Nook Tablet. The other budget Android tablet is zipping along nicely according to industry watchdog Digitimes. The outlet, citing upstream component suppliers, is reporting that B&N...

From the press release: Overstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK), today announced that it has partnered with Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, to sell eBooks through Barnes & Noble.  Visitors to Overstock.com will now have access to the digital edition of hardcover and paperback books available [...]

With the release of its color-screen, picture-book friendly Kindle Fire, Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) is expanding into publishing books for a new audience: Kids. To start, the company’s publishing division is acquiring over 450 children’s books published by the U.S. division of Marshall Cavendish—but it won’t end there. “We’re excited to acquire the Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books titles and expand our publishing business in this area,” said Jeff Belle, VP of Amazon Publishing, in a statement . “We believe the children’s book market segment presents a unique opportunity to innovate in both print and digital formats. And

Even as more readers switch to the convenience of e-books, publishers are giving old-fashioned print books a makeover. Publishers are putting more thought into books' aesthetics. Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading. When people do beautiful books, theyre noticed more, said Robert S. Miller, the publisher of Workman Publishing. Its like

A firm called iSuppli, tracks unit shipments of different electronic devices. They are out today with a new Tablet update and it firmly establishes the Kindle Fire as the number 2 selling Tablet behind iPad and shows Amazon's amazing ability to come out of nowhere in this market. It also shows that while the Nook has gotten some press, the order volume is very low.

Barnes & Noble Inc's expensive investments to keep its Nook e-reader competitive with Amazon's Kindle led to an unexpected quarterly loss for the bookseller, sending its shares down as much as 24 percent on Thursday.

Just in time for Cyber Monday, Open Road Integrated Media has launched Gift of E (giftofe.com), a site aimed at educating consumers on how to gift e-books this holiday season.

Amazon.com says its new Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle e-readers will be available in more than 16,000 stores across the U.S. starting on Nov. 15, touting its retail partnerships with such giants as Best Buy and Target a day after rival Barnes & Noble poked fun at Amazon for lacking its own stores