Barnes & Noble recently lost less money than analysts expected. While this may sound like a strange kind of victory, the main reason why Barnes & Noble made money was through its growing Nook e-book reader and the main reason they lost money was through declining sales through their retail outlets. If it wasn’t...
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The “Preciousness” of Books
Borders Bookstores is going out of business and people are lamenting the loss of a bookstore chain that nobody was really supporting in the first place. If all the people who claim they’ll miss Borders would have actually bought something there on a regular basis, Borders wouldn’t be going out of business. The fact...
Soap Operas Move to the Internet
For decades, long-running soap operas like “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” have thrilled fans. Unfortunately, the cost of producing these shows has gotten too high so many TV networks are switching to less expensive reality-based shows that are less expensive to produce. (Notice that quality of TV programming never enters the...
Digital Textbooks Coming to Korea
South Korea has mandated that all schools will start relying on digital textbooks by the year 2015. At this point, there are still questions about which format digital textbooks will take and which device students will use to read these digital textbooks, but the future is clear. Printed books are on their way out....
Harry Potter Goes to E-Books
For the longest time, J.K. Rowling’s resisted selling her Harry Potter books as e-books due to piracy concerns. Now she’s finally decided to sell e-book versions of her Harry Potter novels, and she’s going to do it through her own site to completely circumvent book stores altogether. Harry Potter books have always been a...