NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word announces a lineup of bestselling and award-winning authors set to headline the 25th annual Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Oct. 11-13. The roster includes Bill Bryson...
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Barnes and Noble CEO Resigns
New York, NY /July 08, 2013 — Barnes and Noble CEO William Lynch has resigned effective immeditely, the company's Board of Directors announced today. The change came after losses on BN's Nook digital business more than doubled for the quarter ended April...
Barnes & Noble Year-End Revenues Fall in Fiscal 2013
New York, NY/June 25, 2013—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today reported sales and earnings for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and full year ended April 27, 2013. Fourth quarter consolidated revenues decreased 7.4% to $1.3 billion as compared to the...
B&N Drops Bombshell in DOJ’s Price Fixing Case Against Apple
Online and brick-and-mortar book retailer Barnes & Noble shot a massive hole through the Department of Justice's ebook price fixing case against Apple on Tuesday. When Theresa Horner, B&N's Vice President of Digital Content, took the stand she told the...
Christian Booksellers Post 8.5 Percent Gain in 2012
The Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) reported that sales for 2012 rose 8.55% over 2011, with a few high-performing stores boosting the average while many independents reported declines or flat performance. The CBA’s 2013 State of the Industry Report...
Book by Literacy Charity Helps Kids With Reading
To mark its 40th anniversary, Beanstalk, the national literacy charity, will today publish 16,000 copies of a special book, to be gifted to every child the organisation has helped this year, as well as to their Beanstalk reading helpers and schools for their school...
Barnes & Noble to Announce Year-end Earnings
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the company will announce year-end earnings for 2013 on Tuesday, June 25th, before the market opens. The company will host an investor...
Big-Name Authors to Keynote Brooklyn Book Fest
On Tuesday, June 4, the office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined the Brooklyn Book Festival, members of the Brooklyn Literary Council and top authors, publishing industry leaders, editors and literary agents to publicly reveal the more than one...
E-Books Fuel Growth in Trade Publishing
Fueled by a year of strong new releases and even more widespread popularity of e-books, BookStats reports that trade publishing (adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, and religion) experienced significant growth in calendar year 2012. While the US book industry...
Amazon Introduces Kindle Worlds, New Publishing Model
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)/May. 22, 2013—Today, Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties...
