Barnes & Noble Inc.

The New Barnes & Noble Nooks Come with Free Malware
December 22, 2016 at 1:15 pm

Barnes & Noble began outsourcing its Nook e-readers a few years ago after a partnership with Samsung and their latest $50 Nook 7 android tablet, announced last month, shows us how that has worked out for them. Their latest e-reader includes ADUPS, a firmware that sends user data back to the manufacturer or an interested…

Jaime Carey Leaving Barnes & Noble
December 14, 2016 at 11:05 am

Long-time Barnes & Noble executive Jaime Carey will leave the company at the end of February. Carey’s pending departure was disclosed in a filing made with the SEC Tuesday morning. Carey is currently president of the development and restaurant group, but in the filing, B&N said that last week it determined that Carey will no…

Barnes & Noble Looks for a Sales Rebound
November 28, 2016 at 3:04 pm

Total revenue dropped 4% in the quarter ended October 29 at Barnes & Noble, compared to the similar period a year ago. Although revenue declined 19.5% in the company’s Nook division, in the conference call with analysts to discuss the results, the focus was on the 3.5% decline in B&N’s retail segment. Chairman and CEO…

Press Release: Barnes & Noble Appoints Demos Parneros as Chief Operating Officer
November 22, 2016 at 12:03 pm

NEW YORK — November 21, 2016 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Demos Parneros has been named Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Parneros, whose appointment is effective immediately, will report to…

Outrage in Bronx as Barnes & Noble Is Set to Close
November 4, 2016 at 12:55 pm

Every day after school, 4-year-old Nicholai Rose demands that his mother take him first to the park then to the Barnes & Noble in the Baychester neighborhood of the Bronx. There, they snuggle in a corner in the children’s section and, each time, read “I Need My Monster,” his favorite picture book. In a few…

In Praise of Ereader Technolust
November 3, 2016 at 11:20 am

Where have the ereader fetishists gone? I mean, they’re out there, usually drooling over the latest model updates (guilty). But where are the resulting think-pieces about the continuously changing nature of reading as we know it? If Barnes & Noble updates its Nook, the resulting press amounts to, “It’s waterproof now, if you care about…

Press Release: Barnes & Noble Education Announces Advanced OER Courseware
October 26, 2016 at 10:46 am

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — October 26, 2016 — Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE:BNED), one of the largest contract operators of bookstores on college and university campuses across the United States and a leading provider of digital education services, today announced the launch of Barnes & Noble Education Courseware to make it easier for faculty…

What Barnes & Noble Doesn’t Get About Bookstores
October 24, 2016 at 11:24 am

In April, Leonard Riggio announced that he was stepping away from Barnes & Noble, the business he bought forty-five years ago and transformed into the world’s largest brick-and-mortar bookstore chain. Come September, Riggio, now seventy-five, would happily retire. Or so he claimed. Though he had ceded the title of chief executive in 2002, Riggio remained the…

All Quiet at B&N Annual Meeting
September 15, 2016 at 1:31 pm

Despite the release last week of disappointing quarterly results and the surprise dismissal of CEO Ron Boire in August, Barnes & Noble’s shareholders meeting held Wednesday morning was a tranquil affair. No shareholders in attendance asked B&N founder and interim CEO Len Riggio about what exactly led to Boire’s ouster, or pressed for more details…

Riggio Vows to Fight for B&N
September 13, 2016 at 10:46 am

Barnes & Noble founder Len Riggio, who returned as CEO in August following the sudden dismissal of Ron Boire, worked to assure shareholders, publishers and B&N employees that he is committed to growing the business during a Thursday conference call after the retailer’s release of disappointing results for the quarter ended July 30, 2016. Riggio…