39-year-old William Lynch has been named CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS). Former CEO Steve Riggio will serve as vice chairman with an "active" role in the company. Previously, Lynch had helmed Barnes & Noble.com, overseeing the launch of the Nook eReader. In addition, COO Mitchell Klipper will now serve as CEO of the company's retail group. Barnes & Noble, Inc. chairman Leonard ...

As eBooks and eReaders threaten the very existence of brick-and-mortar establishments, Barnes & Noble has used the Nook eReader as a chance to bring digital book readers into the real-life bookstore. Today eBookNewser pointed out how Barnes & Noble selected Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for a special program. Here's an excerpt: "In addition to this B&N...

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Barnes & Noble is considering a plan to bundle print books and ebooks. The digital and print book bundles will launch in about 60 to 90 days. The plan was announced by Barnes & Noble.com president William Lynch at the AAP annual meeting. Publishers Weekly also reports that William Lynch predicts there will be less bookstores in the future but they won�...

Publishers Weekly wrote about the partnership between Barnes & Noble and Common Sense Media in Common Sense Raises Issues at B&N. This blog was quoted in that article. So welcome! To recap: I wrote about the partnership in my post, No, We All Don't Agree. In a nutshell, my point of view: Common Sense Media is there for those parents who want it. Despite its name "common sense" and it sayin...

Today Barnes & Noble reported that total sales for the third quarter had risen to $2.2 billion, 33 percent above the same period last year. Launching the Nook eReader last quarter, Barnes & Noble.com reported that sales increased 32 percent to $210 million over that time period, recording a 67 percent "year-over-year for the month of January." However, during the third quarter, Barnes &...

On Twitter, SassyMonkey brought to my attention that Barnes & Noble is now using CommonSenseMedia age ratings on its website. SassyMonkey has a pretty thorough review of the situation, especially how what appears at B&N is a lot less nuanced than what is at CommonSenseMedia. Click through to SassyMonkey's post, especially as she has great screen shots that compare what is at Barnes & N...

Barnes and Noble has announced the 2009 Discover awards finalists. In fiction they are: Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial) Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus...

The majority of publishing stocks dipped today, following general declines on Wall Street. At the same time, All Things Digital spotted a new player in the e-publishing game: "AT&T (T) provides wireless connections for Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle, Sony's (SNE) Daily Reader and Barnes & Noble's (BKS) Nook. And the carrier said it added more than one million wireless data subscript...

The tools to help you to make the most of the latest media slates and tablets 2010 is indeed the year of e-readers, tablets and media slates. Amazon has the Kindle. Barnes & Noble has the Nook. Sony has its own e-readers, and the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas might as well have been called TabletCon. Overshadowing all of this is Apple's "latest creation", also rumoured to...

I picked up Sara Barron's People Are Unappealing the other day because I was at Barnes & Noble and something about the cover caught my attention. This is a collection of autobiographical tales. While most autobiographies are written by successful...