Barnes and Noble News

Many book retailers - chiefly Barnes & Noble - have drawn the proverbially "line in the sand" against Amazon by refusing to carry any titles in stores printed by the online retailer's new publishing arm.

Barnes & Noble and Canadian book seller Indigo Books & Music refuse to sell books from Amazon's publishing arm in objection to its push to sign exclusive deals with authors.

In my youth, green was the color of boxwoods and pine trees, green beans and collards.

The e-book revolution is changing the book publishing space quickly and completely.

Amazon savaged Barnes and Noble and Best Buy in much the same way Wal-Mart destroyed mom and pop retail in the 1980s and 1990s: It used disruptive technology to change how we shop.

Do not trust them when they repeatedly tell you that the era of paper books is ending, that they would soon become as obsolete as vinyl records or coal-fired train engines.

San Francisco A two-day intensive summit on the future of app and game growth and monetization on social and mobile platforms.

It looks as if Amazon, which seemed like it would never set foot outside of the digital world, will open its own brick-and-mortar store later this year.

Sandpoint author and essayist Renee D'Aoust will be sharing her memoir "Body of a Dancer" at Auntie's Bookstore in downtown Spokane on Wednesday, February 8. "Body of a Dancer" has received rave reviews for its honest portrayal of what it like to be a professional dancer.

Over on my photoblog, Picturing Disney , we recently hosted a Hidden Mickey Challenge contest where entrants tried to stump one another by sending in their favorite Hidden Mickeys from around the Disney Parks and Disney Cruise Line.

For the most part, Microsoft has found the mobile industry willing to bow to its patent-licensing strategy.

Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amazon Publishing titles in their stores.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the new Kindle Touch at a news conference during the launch of Amazon's new tablets in New York September 28, 2011.

Barnes & Noble is attempting to irk its publishing rival Amazon.com Inc. by not stocking Amazon-published titles in its stores.

Palo Alto -- In March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books.

Microsoft Corp. has pulled one of five patents used last year to sue Barnes & Noble Inc.

The late artist told Artillery magazine about his failed attempt to buy his childhood home; his years of therapy, and his art-world fatigue: "Now I'm not in the mood to make art" When Tulsa Kinney interviewed Mike Kelley for a cover story of Artillery, the bi-monthly magazine about contemporary art, it was because she believed the Los Angeles-based ... (more)

In an digital age, the old-fashioned, meet-the-writer-in-person book tour survives, although with some modern touches.

Books-A-Million - the nation's second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble - announced today that, like B&N , it will not carry Amazon Publishing titles in its stores.

Corinthian Colleges, Inc. anticipates that its 2010 cohort default rates will be "well below required federal thresholds" for the current two year measurement method.