Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earnings report this morning, which coincides with the launch of a $199 Nook Tablet. The Nook business is struggling to compete against Amazon’s Kindle, and despite some gains it…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q311	Net Inc. vs Q311
BKS	Release		4.3%	17.2%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet—8 GB.

When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released the Nook Tablet in November, CEO William Lynch called the Kindle Fire “deficient” in part because it had only 8 GB of storage space. Now, it seems, the company has changed its tune.

For the most part, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has found the mobile industry willing to bow to its patent-licensing strategy. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) decided to dig in and fight and it could be poised to score a point.

Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles in their stores. But what does this boycott really mean?

About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement saying it will not carry titles published by Amazon—including the Amazon titles that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling in print—in its “store showrooms.”

Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waterstones and, perhaps separately, will release a new Nook this spring.

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to get a Nook device in the hands of every person in your family, except maybe your baby. Babies, it turns out, are a notoriously poor e-book audience.

Book publishers don’t often share much information about their digital revenues, but Naperville, Ill.-based independent publisher Sourcebooks reports some good news, including nearly 800 percent growth in e-book revenues in 2011.

Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications—and digital platforms offer access to the info without lugging around the ones that are left. Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s solution at CES this year?

Some reports today suggest that Kindle Fire sales will cut into sales of Amazon’s other Kindles. For a variety of reasons, though, it’s too early to say that lower-priced color tablets are affecting black and white e-reader sales.

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

In a *CNBC* interview today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch told David Faber, “Whatever we do, we will continue to have a tight relationship between the Nook and [our] stores.” The interview follows yesterday’s news that Barnes & Noble may split off the Nook business from the…

Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to separate the Nook business” from the rest of the company. “We see substantial value in what we’ve built with our Nook business in only two years, and…

Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader will hit the UK “in the not too distant future,” a company VP said yesterday. The Kindle and Kobo are already sold in the country.

Let’s find out! Research firm IDC released its Q3 2011 report on media tablet shipments today. You’ll recall that the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet were not released until Q4 2011, making the firm’s report today somewhat less juicy but containing some interesting tidbits nonetheless. The company estimates that Android…

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is blurring the lines between the $199 Nook Color and $249 Nook Tablet with a major update for the Color, adding access to streaming video through Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). The company is also launching other e-reading initiatives intended to strengthen its competition against Amazon.

Longform journalism site Byliner kicked off its narrative nonfiction “Byliner Originals” publishing program this past spring, with Jon Krakauer’s exposé of Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortensen. That e-single, “Three Cups of Deceit,” became the #1 bestselling nonfiction title across Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), and seven months later it remains…

As it enters the holiday season with the new Nook Tablet for sale and hopes to seize on the “$2 billion up for grabs” as a result of Borders’ bankruptcy, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced its Q2 2012 earnings this morning. Revenues were lower than expected and in-store sales…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q211	Net Inc. vs Q211
BKS	Release		0.5%	%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed