This certainly is interesting timing. As Amazon.com accelerates its push into the book publishing business, Barnes & Noble appears to be getting out of it. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Barnes & Noble plans to put its Sterling Publishing business up for sale, perhaps ending its nearly four decade run of publishing its… Read More…
Well, this should be interesting. David Boies, the lawyer who represented the U.S. Justice Department in its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft, has been retained by Barnes & Noble in its patent battle with the Redmond company over the use of Android in the Nook e-reader. The news was made public in a filing this… Read More…
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we explore the rising competition between Barnes & Noble and Amazon in the tablet computing market, stacking up the new Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire against one other and Apple’s iPad. Then we’re joined in the studio by Jay Greene, senior writer for CNet News.com and… Read More…
Is this PowerPoint’s Revenge? A 29-page slide deck – made public this week in Microsoft’s patent lawsuit against Barnes & Noble — outlines, in great detail, the bookseller’s objections to the software company’s campaign to collect patent licensing fees from Android device makers. According to the cover page, the presentation was given by Barnes & Noble’s… Read More…
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. Kindle products… Read More…
Updated with Microsoft statement. Barnes & Noble is asking the U.S. Justice Department to examine Microsoft’s effort to use its patents to win licensing royalties from Android device makers, according to a Bloomberg News report today. Bloomberg quotes an Oct. 17 letter from Barnes & Noble to a top Justice Department official: “Microsoft is embarking… Read More…
Barnes & Noble unveiled its $249 Nook Tablet today, looking to challenge Amazon’s upcoming $199 Kindle Fire tablet in the market for low-priced tablet computers. Seeking to justify the $50 premium, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch pointed to factors including the Nook Tablet’s 16 GB of built-in storage, which compares with the 6GB available for… Read More…
Amazon.com this weekend released a new television ad promoting its upcoming Kindle Fire by tying the $199 tablet to its e-commerce heritage. The move comes on the eve of an event where Barnes & Noble is expected to announce a Nook Tablet computer for $249, while dropping the price of its existing Nook Color to… Read More…
We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was getting a cut of HTC’s sales of Android devices, under a patent deal announced by the companies more than a year ago. But the extra detail that emerged this past week was still interesting: Microsoft is making $5 on every Android sold by HTC — and it’s… Read More…
Barnes & Noble today introduced the latest version of the Nook. And like yesterday’s announcement by rival Kobo, Barnes & Noble’s new electronic reader features a 6-inch eInk touchscreen. But Barnes & Noble is promising even more, saying that the new gadget will be able to sustain battery life of two months on a single… Read More…
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