Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is the latest e-reader vendor to try TV as a way to reach the broad base of consumers needed to succeed in the highly competitive space. The retailer just launched a major ad campaign for the Nook, which got through the holidays in a burst…

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) couldn’t supply its own stores with the Nook at launch; now it has enough supply to sell the $259 e-reader at best Buy stores and BestBuy.com starting April 18. But that’s only part of the deal. In a move that may be far more important…

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is adding another seasoned digital exec to its team, this time to head digital education efforts. Tracey Weber joins Barnes & Noble as EVP-textbooks and digital education from Travelocity, where she was president of Travelocity NA. It’s the second key digital hire for B&N in…

After the hardware holiday battles, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and book-selling rival Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) are eager to remind users, potential buyers and analysts that they offer platforms in addition to e-readers. And they should be: the multi-tasking more versatile iPad may not appeal to everyone but it’s already…

A surprising move from Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio is stepping down from that role for William Lynch, who joined in early 2009 as president of BN.com (NYSE: BKS). Riggio stays as vice chairman and insists he will still be actively involved. At the same time, B&N promoted COO…

We’ve been hearing about it for months; now Spring Design is taking orders for the Alex e-reader, the one that’s the basis of its lawsuit against Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). Spring claims B&N lifted some of the Alex’s elements after meetings between the two. Whether it gets anywhere with…

The Nook is only part of Barnes & Noble’s digital strategy. Now that the e-reader is launched and its production problems appear to be resolved, B&N is heightening its focus on another major area: selling digital content through its own site and device, and through other devices like the upcoming…

When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced its Nook e-reader in October, the ability to pursue a dual in-store and online sales strategy appeared to be one of the clear advantages it might have over Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). But, as we first reported then, the chain didn’t plan to sell…

Faced with a wave of very well-funded textbook rental competitors, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is firing back with a textbook rental service of its own. B&N—which is the largest operator of college bookstores in the U.S.—says that students at 25 of its campus bookstores will now be able to…

Late last week, we reported that the IRex wireless digital reader is MIA until further notice but Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) still were promising to make their Dec. 24 deliveries. Not so fast. Despite canceling plans to sell the $259 Nook in stores now in…

I finally had the chance to try out the Nook this weekend, not the in-depth look needed for a full review but 30 minutes or so hands on as a customer trying it out in a Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) store. My experience wasn’t linear; I stopped to let…

It’s not that rare for Walt Mossberg and David Pogue to share some common views on new gadgets but when both of them wave you off a product, it stands out. That’s the case with the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook, which Mossberg terms “not fully baked” and Pogue…

E-book sharing offers one of the more intriguing differences between the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle and the Nook from Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—and, it turns out, a chance for Jeff Bezos to critique the upstart. After telling an interviewer for the NYT magazine that he would stick to his…

While Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and *Sony* struggle to meet the demand for their new e-Readers, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is riding high on what it calls “record” Kindle sales for the month of November. No quantitative stats, and no details on whether the sales are for the Kindle DX,…

Planning a trip to your local Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) this week for a look at the Nook? Save the gas. In the weeks since B&N announced it was going beyond selling others’ e-readers or making deals to be the e-bookstore for various devices with its own entry in…

Updated: *Sony* and Barnes & *Noble* may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challenges could keep both companies from denting Kindle’s popularity this holiday season. (Then again, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) had its own problems shipping Kindles over the holidays last year).

Finally got the actual lawsuit Spring Design filed in federal court against Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) over their dueling e-readers and a little time to look through it. (The full PDF is embedded after the jump.) Spring claims that it only shared certain info about its own e-reader because…

Somehow a lawsuit had to be lurking ... Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which took a spin on the floor with just about everyone before announcing its own e-reader, is being sued by Spring Design for misappropriation of trade secrets and violating a non-disclosure agreement. Cupertino-based Spring claims B&N “copied”…

Barnes & Noble will sell Plastic Logic’s Que in stores and online when the “proReader” launches in early 2010. The Que, a notebook-paper sized device aimed at business users, is not direct competition for B&N’s own Nook, announced last week; in addition to be considerably larger, it also could cost…