Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 17, 2011 1:38 PM
Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects the size of the print book market to decrease by a third by 2015, while the e-book market grows by 700 percent—and B&N sees itself taking larger shares of…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jul 8, 2011 11:25 AM
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week. He says he’s betting on the fact that Barnes & Noble could become a major competitor against…
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Laura Hazard Owen
May 27, 2011 12:00 PM
We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest trade book fair in the United States. Then Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) stunned the industry by hiring traditional publishing vet Larry Kirshbaum to launch its new general trade…
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Staci D. Kramer
Dec 2, 2010 9:36 AM
Two moves today for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) that most companies would separate but in this case decided to pair: Barry Diller has stepped aside as CEO, making way for Greg Blatt, president of Match.com, just as the company solves the conundrum of how to handle its relationship with John Malone’s…
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