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The $250 Nook Tablet isn't a completely new product or a radical overhaul of the Nook Color. It's still a 7-inch tablet packing wi-fi and 16GB of storage. But in addition to making it thinner and lighter, they've crammed in a 1GHz dual-core processor as well. It uses the same 1024x600 display as the Nook Color and is rumored to be running a TI OMAP4 processor. It packs 1 gigabyte of RAM, weighs less than a pound, and has 11.5 hours of battery life.
Barnes & Noble announced Nov. 4 they will be bringing the company's award-winning line of NOOK eReading devices and related accessories to retail stores nationwide, including TigerDirect and CompUSA, and online at TigerDirect.com and CompUSA.com, beginning in December.
In a time of significant flux in the industry, publishing executives are faced with more pressure than ever to examine their businesses and make decisions that will lead them to a profitable future. Book Business checked in with the leaders of publishing companies of various sizes and scopes—from Scholastic to Springer to Merriam-Webster to Triple Crown—to find out what their best business decisions of the year have been.
According to Albert Greco of the Institute for Publishing Research (as reported by WSJ.com) sales of print titles will drop from $18 billion in 2008 to $13.9 billion in 2015, not including book clubs, book fairs and catalog mail orders. His projections show that e-book sales should increase to $3.6 billion by 2015 from $78 million in 2008.
According to a report from The Digital Reader, the retailer will release an updated Nook on November 7. Citing sources within Barnes & Noble, the blog said the company is planning a big launch on that date, though he had few details about what the new product might entail. One individual, who works in a Barnes & Noble store, told The Digital Reader that they have replaced a customer service counter with a huge Nook boutique.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. has added over one million new products to its online catalog, and new premiere online partners including Wayfair.com, Right Start, UnbeatableSale.com, Inc., School Specialty, Inc., Abe's of Maine, Delivery Agent and more.
Last week, DC Comics announced plans to release 100 graphic novels exclusively on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Now the other shoe has dropped. An email sent to Barnes & Noble stores yesterday instructs them to remove all of the 100 graphic novels listed from the shelves, including Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and Sandman among other strong sellers. You will still be able to order the books on the website and place special orders at stores, but only if they're delivered to your home—copies will not be allowed to enter Barnes & Noble premises.
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch yesterday sent an e-mail to former Borders customers informing them of its purchase of some of Borders' assets.
Are the days of hanging a child's stories on the refrigerator soon to be gone? Not likely, but now kids and parents have a new option for putting these stories on display.
$3.99: The retail price for the recently released 32-page comic book biography of Stephen King, "Orbit: Stephen King," published by Bluewater Productions
