Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS)

[Leirum]

Took a while, however looks like the prediction is coming true. Spin-Off talk now valued between $ 25 - $ 35.

[north40000]

MSFT buy Nook rumor: large pre-market share price rise this morning.

[Leirum]

Looks like the perfect short-squeeze is coming. 13.8 Mio shs. short - 18 days to cover and this against a float of 35 Mio shs and talks for privatization going on. Good luck shorties - this time you picked the wrong one.

[green1back]

$BKS Chair wants to buy retail business

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2013/02/25/barnes--noble-chair-wants-to-buy-retail-business

[Emerging Growth]

Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook Sales Down

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Barron’s published its list of best stock picks for 2013 last month and the only small-cap to make the list was Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS). That was a surprise for analysts and investors alike. BKS has had its share of challenges this past year as it has made the change from its retail format to an essentially Nook format. Earlier this month the company announced disappointing holiday sales figures that seemed to belie Barron’s assertion that the company is poised to offer generous returns in 2013, perhaps at numbers as large as15 to 20 percent. Although the brick and mortar portion of the business now controls almost two-thirds of the country’s retail shelf space for books, BKS announced a year ago that they were trending towards a business centered on its Nook device.

Retail sales from the company’s bookstores and its web site shrank 10.9 percent from the holiday period a year earlier, to $1.2 billion. Perhaps a larger worry for the long-term future of the company is that sales in the Nook unit have declined 12.6 percent, to $311 million. Whenever there is a decline (and in this case such a large one) over the holiday season when sales are supposed to peak, it is a major concern for company execs, analysts and investors. Although the Nook division is losing money some analysts suspect that the loss reflects a market-share grab as BKS attempts to get its Nook units into the hands of as many consumers as possible. Then, the plan is to sell Nook customers more lucrative digital content, including magazine subscriptions as well as books.

On the plus side, BKS appears to have at least several good friends. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in particular likes the Nook. The software giant invested $300 million in the company this past October for a 17.6 percent stake in the Nook division. There appears to be another fan in the wings. John Malone’s, Liberty Media (NASDAQ: LMCA) owns $200 million of BKS preferred stock. A few weeks ago British book publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) announced that it would pay nearly $90 million in cash for a 5percent stake in the company’s Nook division. It really is quite a good investment for both sides. It gives Pearson another outlet for its books and it also opens up a new market for the Nook. These votes of confidence could go a long way towards calming investor nerves.

It’s no secret that the Nook is in a highly competitive market. In particular, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has its Kindle Fire and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) its ubiquitous iPad. Both companies claim sales are strong. Against such competition that clearly has momentum in the Nook’s niche, perhaps the question should be whether BKS can stay in the digital device business at all. The Nook has been costly to develop and market and BKS does not have the immense financial resources of its competitors. Currently, the company has a market cap of $785 million and is trading at $13.10 per share. This is, without doubt, one to watch.

[Rock_nj]

Why Microsoft Invested In Barnes & Noble

Microsoft (Symbol: MSFT) announced on April 30, 2012 a surprise investment of $605 million in the well known book seller Barnes & Noble (Symbol: BKS). Why did Microsoft invest in Barnes & Noble, which is associated with the ailing bricks and mortar business model that has already caused long established companies, such as Borders and Blockbuster, to file for bankruptcy and liquidate themselves out of existence? There’s more to this story than meets the eye.

http://rocknj.hubpages.com/hub/Why-Microsoft-Invested-In-Barnes-Noble

[Fastmandoo]

Wow... Big Play here for a Monday Morning.........

[HubEZ]

Look at the close on Friday. So much illegal BS insider trading these days, yet small firms and traders get fines for much less. While many hedge funds and friends of insiders are making a killing on insider information or price manipulation by news releases. I love it when someone takes a position, and then upgrades the stock and sells into the upgrade.

[HubEZ]

Jana Partners LLC should be under investigation for insider trading.

[Penny Roger$]

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[EZmoneyED]

And the POS trends up lol. Glad Im not short here yet.

[$tockfather]

Guess what? Another BKS PR today.lol

“Sesame Street” NOOK Books™ Available for Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet™ and NOOK Color™


Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the availability of versions of popular Sesame Street favorites, now available as NOOK Books, including the classic "The Monster at the End of This Book" available as an eBook with audio only on NOOK. The exciting NOOK Books feature beloved Sesame Street characters, including Grover, Abby, and Elmo – who happens to be celebrating his birthday this Friday, February 3. Barnes & Noble will launch with seven titles with nineteen more to follow. NOOK Tablet utilizes the world’s most advanced VividView™ Touchscreen, offering readers a chance to experience these Sesame Street titles with Barnes & Noble’s exclusive Read-to-Me™ technology in our fastest, lightest tablet.

“We are excited to introduce a series of popular Sesame Street titles into our extensive picture book catalogue of NOOK Books,” said Wendy Bronfin, Senior Director of Kids Digital Products for Barnes & Noble. “Sesame Street has been a leader in technology and education for young children for many years and we are thrilled to bring these family-favorite stories to Barnes & Noble customers– and right before Elmo’s birthday. What a great birthday present!”

Users can purchase digital copies of their favorite Sesame Street titles through the NOOK Book store. These titles will also be available on the highly-acclaimed NOOK Color. The titles will be available in the NOOK store at www.bn.com/sesamestreet.

“Sesame Street fans can now enjoy stories with their favorite characters wherever they go with their NOOK®,” said Jennifer A. Perry, Vice President, Worldwide Publishing, Sesame Workshop. “We are always looking to give children and parents opportunities to read together, and these Sesame Street NOOK Books provide families a vibrant new way to explore books and encourage a love of reading.”

Experience NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color at any Barnes & Noble bookstore or at www.nook.com.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 703 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 637 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

[EZmoneyED]

Eventually this will be a good short imo. Unless they partner with facebook:)

[$tockfather]

lol yeah you're probably right about that one. I have never bought any shares of BKS, I've only had it on watch for awhile now. i agree this company pumps out a crazy amount of PR's, surprised it has held the way it has also.lol

[EZmoneyED]

This company is a pr machine amazing how the stock price has held up so well while they are losing money and eventually will go down the tubes imo.

[$tockfather]

Barnes & Noble Announces the Finalists for the 21st Annual Discover Great New Writers Awards


Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the six finalists for its prestigious 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists, $2,500. The finalists are:

Fiction:


Alan Heathcock, Volt (Graywolf Press)

Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Scott O’Connor, Untouchable (Tyrus Books, a division of F+W Media, Inc.)


Nonfiction:


Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey (Free Press)

Joshua Cody, [sic] (W.W. Norton)

Michael Levy, Kosher Chinese (Henry Holt & Co.)


The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at a private awards ceremony. The Discover Awards honor the best works featured the previous calendar year in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.

Books by the finalists and judges can be purchased at any Barnes & Noble store, online at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com/discover) or instantly downloaded on any NOOK™ eBook Reader.

The Jurists

Two panels of distinguished literary judges selected the finalists and will select the winners. Serving as this year’s fiction judges are: Chris Abani, author of the 2004 Discover selection GraceLand and, most recently, the poetry collection, Sanctificum; Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance and the 1999 Discover selection City of Light; and Bo Caldwell, author of the national bestsellers City of Tranquil Light and The Distant Land of My Father.

This year’s nonfiction judges are: Marie Arana, author of two novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights, and a memoir, American Chica, a 2002 Discover Great New Writers selection; John Freeman, former president of the National Book Critics circle and author of The Tyranny of E-Mail, a 2009 Discover selection; and Koren Zailckas, author of Fury and the 2005 Discover selection Smashed.

The Discover Awards

The Discover Great New Writers program was established in 1990 to highlight works of exceptional literary quality that might otherwise be overlooked in a crowded book marketplace. This year’s selections featured the work of 68 new and previously underappreciated writers. Submissions to the program are read and discussed by a group of Barnes & Noble booksellers before selection for the program’s seasonal promotions.

Past winners of the annual Discover Great New Writers Award include Kim Echlin for The Disappeared and David R. Dow for The Autobiography of an Execution (both 2010), David Sheff for Beautiful Boy (2008), Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End (2007), Eric Blehm for The Last Season (2006), Nathaniel Fick for One Bullet Away (2005), Alison Smith for Name All the Animals (2004), Monica Ali for Brick Lane (2003), Dina Temple-Ralston for A Death in Texas (2002), Hampton Sides for Ghost Soldiers (2001), Tracy Chevalier for Girl with a Pearl Earring (2000), Elizabeth McCracken for The Giant’s House (1996), Chang-rae Lee for Native Speaker (1995), and David Guterson for Snow Falling on Cedars (1994).

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 703 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 637 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

[$tockfather]

Barnes & Noble’s Award-Winning $199 NOOK Color™ Now Even Better with Streaming Entertainment & More Breathtaking Content ...


Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, continues to enhance its critically acclaimed NOOK Color with the largest-ever software update to the device now available at no cost (www.nookcolor.com/update), adding over 100 feature enhancements, access to top video and music services, popular apps, comics and more. With new tablet features and access to the best names in entertainment, the first-ever Reader’s Tablet™ is now even better at the incredibly low price of $199. Customers can enjoy popular movies and TV shows through leading services like Netflix and Flixster, with others coming soon. The update also brings faster, easier access to the world’s largest digital catalog of color and interactive books, magazines, children’s books, high-quality apps, and now comics and graphic novels.

The perfect holiday gift for those who love to experience all types of content in rich, beautiful color on the world’s most advanced VividView™ display, NOOK Color is available for new customers to purchase immediately in NOOK Digital Shops™ at their neighborhood Barnes & Noble stores, www.nookcolor.com and other leading retailers. Today only, customers who purchase any new $199 NOOK Color online with a MasterCard will receive a free $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card, along with free shipping. This offer also applies to the #1-rated $99 NOOK Simple Touch™, and the all-new $249 NOOK Tablet™, the company’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best entertainment displayed in stunning VividView. Additional details are available at www.nook.com.

“Building upon our award-winning reading experience and vast digital content catalog, we are excited to offer our largest NOOK Color software update ever that will bring access to movies, TV shows, hundreds of new apps, comics, graphic novels and more to our time-tested, critically acclaimed Reader’s Tablet,” said William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. “This innovative product continues to receive high acclaim as an Editor’s Choice and is ranked among the most highly rated eReaders by many leading technology reviewers. At the incredibly low price of $199, customers can discover all types of interactive content specifically designed for the stunning, 7-inch display, in addition to staying connected through email and the web. We encourage customers to stop by their local Barnes & Noble this holiday season to learn about the whole portfolio of NOOK devices and receive free support from one of our highly-trained NOOKsellers.”

More High-Quality NOOK Apps™, Including Top Entertainment Services

Adding to the growing collection of high-quality NOOK Apps, children’s apps, games and more, NOOK Color customers can download Netflix to watch movies and TV shows, and Flixster which, through the UltraViolet™ standard, will allow consumers to access their digital movies and TV shows on the go. Coming soon, more leading services will be available. NOOK Color owners can also listen to millions of songs using the hottest music services, including Pandora, Rhapsody®, Grooveshark and MOG, all available with a free 14-day trial. In addition, NOOK Color owners can listen to their own songs wherever they go with the built-in music player. From music to movies and more, all NOOK Apps are the highest-quality versions available, optimized for NOOK Color’s beautiful and ultra-responsive 7-inch VividView display to ensure a stunning and seamless user experience.

The NOOK App library continues to grow with hundreds of new titles added each week to bring all the top requested and most popular apps to both NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet. Exciting new NOOK App additions include games published by Chillingo such as Roll in the Hole and Spider Jack, I Can Read, Cozi Family Organizer, Audobon Insects, Pat the Bunny, and more. Enjoy fun new holiday-themed apps including How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Tacky's Christmas – all with a special reduced pricing promotion for the holidays. Also, find All I Want from Santa, Emma In: A Sweet Christmas plus an extensive lineup of holiday-centric live wallpapers, themes and much more.

Barnes & Noble’s Vast Collection of Interactive Content at Your Fingertips

NOOK Color customers can shop the world’s largest bookstore, featuring more than 2.5 million books, enhanced books, interactive magazines, newspapers, children’s books, and now comics and graphic novels. Highlights include:

NOOK Newsstand™: Choose from more than 300 newspapers and full-color, interactive magazines, delivered instantly to the device. Barnes & Noble offers the largest digital collection of top 100 magazines for subscription or single issue purchase – all available for a risk-free, 14-day free trial – including bestsellers PEOPLE, Food Network Magazine, Us Weekly, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, TIME, National Geographic and many others. Most interactive magazines offer Barnes & Noble's ArticleView™, new animated and lightning fast page turns, smooth pinch, zoom and panning. Many special edition NOOK Magazines™ feature videos, animation, image galleries and more. Newly added publications include People StyleWatch, Southern Living, SmartMoney, Official Xbox Magazine, WIRED, SELF and TransWorld Skateboarding with more titles being added each week.
New NOOK Comics™: NOOK Color customers can now access a large collection of full-color comics, graphic novels and kids’ comics in high resolution that allow readers to pinch, zoom and discover this content like never before. NOOK Comics features the largest digital collection of Marvel’s graphic novels available through a third party – including Halo Uprising and other Marvel greats like Ultimate Spider-Man, The Astonishing X-Men, and Hulk: Planet Hulk, among others. NOOK Color customers can also enjoy titles from other leading publishers, including Archie – with series starring the redheaded star, plus pals Jughead and Betty & Veronica– IDW and Dynamite.
NOOK Kids™: With an incredible collection of more than 1,000 interactive children’s picture books and more than 12,000 chapter books, NOOK Color offers the world’s largest digital selection with hundreds of titles offering enhanced Read to Me and Read to Play functionality, so children and parents can interact with built-in narration and engaging in-page animation and activities. Newly added popular titles for the holidays include A Charlie Brown Christmas and Elf on the Shelf, both only on NOOK with engaging narrations and entertaining activities built right in to the stories, plus an exclusive edition of Sandra Boynton’s Christmas Parade, narrated by the author. Beginning readers can also enjoy new I Can Read series titles, plus Judy Blume’s popular Fudge series including Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and many more through the expanded chapter book collection.
NOOK Books™: Barnes & Noble continues to expand its NOOK Bookstore™ with the vast majority of books available for $9.99 or less. New PagePerfect™ NOOK Books™ feature cookbooks, craft and art books rendered with rich precision to retain all the beauty of their stunning print versions. Customers can also enjoy new titles including 11/22/63 from Stephen King and Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch, or bestsellers including Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich, Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible, Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and many more.

Enhanced Reading Experience Makes it Easier than Ever to Find New Great Content

NOOK Color customers can now explore new reading experiences and Shop enhancements that make it easier than ever to find great books, children’s content, magazines, newspapers and apps. Simply tap to open the redesigned NOOK Store to find a clean, customized interface and great social features that showcase the vast amount of content available. Explore customized reading features to enjoy all your favorite content like never before.

Customized reading: In response to customer feedback, NOOK Color now offers the flexibility to read books in portrait or landscape mode and to adjust the text with even more font sizes to choose from. And now reading is even more interactive with PDF thumbnail page views, and image pinch, zoom and pan in books and PDFs.
Unparalleled reviews and recommendations: Learn what to read next from Barnes & Noble’s knowledgeable booksellers, from new releases to up-and-coming authors. Barnes & Noble’s personalized NOOK Recommendations™ suggest titles by customer’s favorite authors in many different categories – helping them find selections in all subjects, from the most popular to hidden gems. In any book a customer is reading, a simple tap on the new NOOK Discover™ icon offers instant recommendations. Customers can also find new content through:
NOOK Daily Find – Discover a new read every day at an amazing price.
NOOK First – Exclusive content for NOOK owners from leading authors.
NOOK Snaps – Bite-size reads for “snackable” content on the go.
NOOK Spotlight – Twice a month, Barnes & Noble features great books at a great price.
New Release Tuesday – The weekly scoop on the bestsellers and the newest releases.

Get more social: With NOOK Color, customers can connect with Facebook friends and others through NOOK Friends™, and find out what they have to say about their books, magazines and newspapers. Customers can also share their thoughts about the books they’re reading via email, Facebook and Twitter. Owners can share books, as well as browse and borrow books, from NOOK Friends using Barnes & Noble’s exclusive LendMe® technology.
Continuous reading: Read what you love, anywhere you like™ on NOOK devices and with free NOOK Reading Apps. NOOK Cloud™ automatically syncs a customer’s library, last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of their devices, so a customer can start a book on NOOK Color, and pick right back up where they left off on their computer or smartphone.

Discover Instant NOOK Book Gifting

With tablets high on everyone’s gift list this year, Barnes & Noble makes it easier for customers to give the gift of reading with instant NOOK Book gifting. Now, customers can visit www.bn.com to give any NOOK Book or NOOK App as gifts. Books and apps are delivered instantly to recipients on their NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet device. In addition, NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color customers will also be able to apply their Barnes & Noble gift cards – physical or digital – while shopping on their devices.

NOOK Color v1.4 Update Now Available

Current and future NOOK Color customers can experience all of the great new features in v1.4 immediately at no cost via manual download available at www.nookcolor.com/update. A free over-the-air (OTA) update requiring no action from customers will begin rolling out to customers via Wi-Fi next week. Experience the new NOOK Apps and other exciting new features at the NOOK Digital Shop™ or display in one of Barnes & Noble’s more than 700 bookstores across the country or by visiting www.nookcolor.com. NOOK Color, along with other NOOK devices, can also be found at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores, Fry’s Electronics and Systemax Inc. retailers.

About NOOK® from Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The new NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best in HD entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet at a great value ($249). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($199) feature a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via email, browse the Web and more. The NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99), is the fastest, easiest to use reader with the world’s best reading screen and the longest battery life. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in any of its more than 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi® connectivity to enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores, Fry’s Electronics and Systemax Inc. retailers.

In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its FREE NOOK Reading Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.

For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday™ NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN and www.facebook.com/nookBN.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 703 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 637 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Tablet™, NOOK Simple Touch ™, NOOK 1st Edition™, NOOK 1st Edition Wi-Fi™, NOOK Color™, Reader’s Tablet™, PagePerfect™, Best-Text™, Fast Page™, NOOK Books™, NOOK Store™, NOOK Bookstore™, NOOK Newsstand™, NOOK Magazines™, VividView™, ArticleView™, NOOK Newspapers™, NOOK Comics™, NOOK Cloud™, NOOK Apps™, FREE NOOK Reading Apps™, PubIt!™, NOOK Discover™, NOOK Kids™, Read and Play™, Read to Me™, Read and Record™, NOOK Digital Shop™, Read In Store™, More In Store™, NOOK Friends™, LendMe®, NOOK Library™, NOOK Boutiques™, The Barnes & Noble Promise™, NOOK Books en español™, NOOK Study™, Free Friday™, Lifetime Library™ and Read What You Love. Anywhere You Like™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. PEOPLE, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED are trademarks of Time, Inc., registered in the U.S. and in other countries. Other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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[MWM]

Goldman Sachs Lowers PT to $15 on Barnes and Noble

By Phil Marsh
Benzinga Staff Writer
December 02, 2011 8:11 AM


A report from Goldman Sachs reiterates its Neutral rating and lowers its price target from $16 to $15 on Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]).

The report states, “BKS's October quarter results revived legitimate questions about the profit trajectory of the Nook business. Retail and College showed well, on good cost control and favorable gross margin trends. But, Nook-related revenue decelerated sharply and fell short of our estimates; .com margins, even adjusted for one-off factors, failed to advance sequentially for the first time in six quarters; and the company directed forecasts to the low end of its guided range.”

BKS closed yesterday at $14.59.

[AnimalMother]

+10% today. good short term trade.

[MWM]

BKS packed with People and a BKS with people buying books is two different animals. If BKS can't see at least a revenue increase on the heels of Borders BK then it's in deep chit.

Same story that we saw with Circuit City and Best Buy, a loss of a competitor amazingly did not help and is actually just a precursor of a dying business model. If people are buying their electronics online, I guarantee you they won't hesitate to buy books online as well...

[AnimalMother]

I just bought a 1000lb. capacity trailer off of Amazon...

I agree with you... BKS and AMZN aren't even playing on the same field.

Also, I can't remember the last time I was in a BKS that wasn't packed with people.

Just tradin'. :)

[MWM]

You really think that BKS is even in the same game as AMZN? AMZN is selling their Ebooks for a loss, you think BKS can afford to do that? Even APPL is getting a run for their money...

BKS has no shot in at this game...

BKS Sinks 18%: FYQ2 Misses; Here Comes Nook Spending Push

By Tiernan Ray

Shares of Barnes & Noble (BKS) are down $3.13, or 18%, at $14.31 after the company this morning reported fiscal Q2 revenue below expectations and a surprise loss, despite strong growth in its “Nook” e-book reader business, and warned this year’s profit will come in at the low end of its prior expectation as it ramps up spending to defend the Nook from Amazon.com’s (AMZN) “Kindle Fire,”

Revenue in the three months ended in October fell 0.6%, year over year, to $1.89 billion, yielding EPS of 17 cents a share.

Analysts had been modeling $1.98 billion and a 3-cent profit.

Retail sales fell 1%, year over year, the company said, and same-store sales were down 0.6% although they improved as the quarter went on.

Although the online business rose 17%, its losses on an Ebitda basis expanded to $59 million from $50 million, in part because of higher advertising, and in part because of the cut in price of the Nook devices announced in October.

The loss also includes a six-cent-per-share preferred stock dividend.

Barnes said the “Nook Tablet” tablet computer, which went on sale last month at the same time as Amazon’s Fire, became its fastest-selling Nook product, without disclosing actual sales of the device. Sales of the gadget at B&N stores jumped four-fold over the Black Friday holiday weekend, and content sold for the Nook “nearly tripled,” the company said.

In addition, the company said its gross margin online improved from 6% a year earlier to 15%.

Barnes said its full-year Ebitda will be at the low-end of a previously offered forecast of $210 million to $250 million as the company spends “more heavily to fuel digital growth,” with greater advertising for the Nook and promotions and costs for “strategic opportunities.”

[AnimalMother]

Target price 19, current 14.38

[AnimalMother]

BKS, Good time to get in. Kindle sales are battling the Nook.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051VVOB2/httptodddunco-20

What do you think?

Barnes maintains strong in-store sales, and increased interest with the removal of Borders.

[MWM]

BKS disappoints, they cannot keep up with AMZN and AAPL...

[MWM]

BKS is my best short here...

Amazon is going to put them out of business...

[MWM]

Struggling Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) Will See Its Stock Plunge – For Good

November 28, 2011

By Jack Barnes, Global Macro Trends Specialist, Money Morning

Don't believe the recent rally in Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) stock - it's not going to stick.

In fact, this stock is ready to plunge.

The share price has been on a roller coaster ride all year. It climbed in February to over $18, fell to almost $8 in April, rose to around $21 in June, and then slipped to $10 in October.

Now it's on a tear again. It's moved up by 5% to 10% per day lately, soaring 65% in the past month.

But this move isn't based on strong fundamentals and good earnings. In fact, Barnes & Noble's business faces serious obstacles.

The book-retailing sector has been struggling with the growing popularity of eBooks. While Barnes & Noble has benefited from deep-pocket investors who have built a major stake in the company, the fundamentals aren't there to support this investment. It is extremely overleveraged, and the company has reached the stage where it's borrowing money to pay high dividends.

That is never a long-lasting business model.

The market agrees with this sentiment, building one of the largest short positions in a public stock.

You see, I believe the majority of Barnes & Noble's share price climb is due to shorts covering their positions. As of Oct. 14, 46.7% of the float was short.

Once this short cover period is over, I expect the stock to fall again, dipping even lower than before.

So it's time to sell Barnes & Noble Inc., before the stock rally collapses and all you're left with is a weak company in a struggling sector. (**)

















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Barnes & Noble Inc.: A Dying Breed
Barnes & Noble Inc. is one of the last major bookstore chains left in America. The Internet and new competitors like Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), along with the proliferation of eBooks, have ravaged the sector.

Amazon.com completely changed how people shopped for reading material. Once eReaders hit the struggling book sector, the ability of bookstores to pay rent, power, lights, and salaries at physical locations went the way of the dodo bird: extinct.

In the end, there is only Barnes & Noble. As of Oct. 20 they still operate 704 bookstores in 50 states, as well as 635 college bookstores serving 4.6 million students and faculty. It also operates Barnes & Noble eBookstore and provides Barnes & Noble eReader software.

Its most famous bricks & mortar competitor, Borders Group Inc. (PINK: BGPIQ), was dissolved in bankruptcy court this year. This helped boost Barnes & Noble's sales by 2% last quarter.

But the company still lost $57 million, or 99 cents a share. Even with sales getting a $150 million to $200 million lift from the Borders closing, B&N is predicting a full-year loss of 10 cents to 50 cents a share. It will report third-quarter earnings Thursday, Dec. 1.

Even its Nook Tablet won't boost the company into positive territory. While it has helped sales, it faces tough competition from fresh models of the Amazon Kindle and the tablet winner, the Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad 2.

The market currently gives Barnes & Noble a market cap of $850 million; however, once you take net cash and debt levels (otherwise known as enterprise value) into consideration, the company is valued at $1.4 billion.

The company has a reported forward dividend of rate of 8%. However, this was due to a large $1.00 dividend paid in December 2010, and will not be maintained with falling profits.

[$tockfather]

Barnes & Noble Announces Cyber Monday Steals and Deals at BN.com

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, announced today even more amazing specials for online holiday shoppers on Cyber Monday. On Monday, November 28, customers who purchase any new Barnes & Noble award-winning NOOK device online with a MasterCard will receive a free $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card, along with free shipping. This amazing offer applies to the full NOOK product line, including the #1-rated $99 NOOK Simple Touch™, the ever-popular $199 NOOK Color™, and the all-new $249 NOOK Tablet™, the company’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best entertainment displayed in stunning VividView™. So in addition to giving the gift of the top-rated reading and entertainment products available, BN.com shoppers can also use the Gift Card to purchase great new physical or digital books, magazines and children’s books – or a stylish accessory for the new NOOK.

Online holiday shoppers will enjoy up to 70 percent savings on the season’s hottest gifts for the whole family such as top-selling books, educational toys and games, electronics and more. And savvy shoppers, will also be able to redeem an online coupon for 30 percent off any one item, not including NOOK products. Other exciting BN.com Cyber Monday online specials include:

Bestsellers: 50 percent off select New York Times Bestsellers, including Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie, and Stephen King’s 11/23/63, among others.
Toys & Games: $5 off a $10 Toys & Games purchase, including the Fisher Price Rock Star Mickey, Disney Princess Ultimate Dream Castle, Vtech Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker, and more.
Home & Gift: 50 percent off select items, including the Three Designing Women Personalized Designer Stamp, Moleskine Gourmet Gift Box, and New York Yankees Final Season Coasters.
Electronics: 50 percent savings on select electronics and accessories for popular devices, including the Ion Audio iCG04 iCade Arcade Cabinet for iPad, and BookBook Case for iPad.
DVD and Blu-ray: Up to 70 percent off select DVD and Blu-ray bestsellers and new releases in stores, including Despicable Me, Water for Elephants, Inception and Rango.

All orders over $25 qualify for free shipping and, as always, Barnes & Noble Members enjoy free express shipping on all BN.com orders. For more information, visit www.bn.com/cybermonday. And experience NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Digital Shops™ and displays in one of Barnes & Noble’s more than 700 bookstores and other leading retailers.

About NOOK® from Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The new NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best in HD entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet at a great value ($249). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($199) feature a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via email, browse the Web and more. The NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99) is the fastest, easiest to use reader with the world’s best reading screen and the longest battery life. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in any of its more than 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi® connectivity to enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores, Fry’s Electronics, hhgregg and Systemax Inc. retailers.

In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its FREE NOOK Reading Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.

For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday™ NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN and www.facebook.com/nookBN.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 704 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 635 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

[$tockfather]

BKS added to watchlist.

nice bull move this month(Nov) nearly 60% from $12 to $19

[$tockfather]

[$tockfather]

Barnes & Noble Announces Black Friday Megadeals on Hottest Holiday Gifts


Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, announced today the best Black Friday deals on the season’s hottest reading and entertainment products. Among Barnes & Noble’s breakthrough offers, on Friday, November 25 – for one day only – customers will be able purchase a limited edition version of the award-winning NOOK Simple Touch, The World’s #1 Rated Reader, for the amazing low price of only $79. Sold only at Barnes & Noble bookstores on Black Friday while supplies last, this exclusive model features a stylish white border.

NOOK Simple Touch is the world’s best reader at the world’s best value – normally at the low price of $99 without distracting ads – and a must-have this holiday season for anyone who loves to read. With its latest software update, NOOK Simple Touch now has the most advanced E® Ink display with lightning-fast page turns – 25 percent faster than any other E Ink product on the market. And Barnes & Noble has extended NOOK Simple Touch’s best-in-class battery life even further for its customers who love to read for long stretches – up to two months, with an hour of reading a day, all on a single charge. At NOOK Digital Shops™, customers will also be able to experience the incredibly popular NOOK Color™ at a new low price of only $199, as well as the NOOK Tablet™, the company’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best entertainment displayed in stunning VividView™, for just $249.

In addition to NOOK products, customers should shop early to take advantage of this year’s exciting Barnes & Noble Black Friday specials available in stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com, including:

NOOK Accessories: Enjoy discounts of up to 44 percent online and in stores on NOOK must-haves, including a free Clear Screen Film Kit with purchase of a NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet Power Kit for $24.95, and a free NOOK Simple Touch Power Adapter with purchase of a Lyra Light for $14.95.
Toys & Games: An incredible 50 percent off of any one item in stores from the world’s best selection of Educational Toys and Games, and select items online. Customers can choose from LEGO, LeapFrog, Melissa & Doug, and many more. This offer is exclusively available on Friday, November 25.
Top-selling Books: 50 percent off select popular titles online and in stores, including George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones Deluxe Edition, John Grisham’s The Litigators, Lee Child’s The Affair, David Baldacci’s Zero Day, Todd Burpo’s Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition, Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage, Peter A. David’s The Spiderman Vault, and The Art Museum Book, among others.
Kids & Teens Books: 50 percent of select titles online and in stores, including the bestselling series Maze Runner, by James Dashner, and The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Clare, as well as popular picture books such as Dr. Seuss’ The Bippolo Seed, Eric Carle’s The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, and Maurice Sendak’s Bumble-Ardy. Also available is Tom Angleberger’s popular Origami Yoda Book series for young readers.
DVD and Blu-ray: 40-50 percent off select DVD and Blu-ray bestsellers and new releases in stores.

Additional offers, available to customers online and in stores, include:

A coupon for 30 percent off one item to shop online from Wednesday, November 23, to Sunday, November 27, or redeemable in stores from Friday, November 25, to Sunday, November 27.
A free $10 Barnes & Noble gift card with every $100 gift card purchase.

Whether shopping in a Barnes & Noble bookstore, or online at BN.com, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for gift-givers this holiday season. For more information, visit www.bn.com/blackfriday. And experience NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Digital Shops and displays in one of Barnes & Noble’s more than 700 bookstores and other leading retailers. Barnes & Noble offers Always Free NOOK Support in all of its neighborhood bookstores, with more than 40,000 NOOKsellers across the country ready to assist customers with setting up their NOOK devices or choosing their next great read.

About NOOK® from Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. The new NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best in HD entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet at a great value ($249). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($199) feature a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via email, browse the Web and more. The NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99) is the fastest, easiest to use reader with the world’s best reading screen and the longest battery life. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in any of its more than 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi® connectivity to enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.BN.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores, Fry’s Electronics, hhgregg and Systemax Inc. retailers.

In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its FREE NOOK Reading Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.

For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new NOOK Book releases, Free Friday™ NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN and www.facebook.com/nookBN.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 704 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 635 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

[$tockfather]

UPDATE: Barnes & Noble and Amobee Use Mobile Advertising to Drive 2012 Holiday Season Sales


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Amobee, the company defining mobile advertising, and Barnes & Noble will use innovative mobile advertising this holiday shopping season to drive online content adoption and sales. With the free NOOK for Android Reading App, users can enjoy an immersive and easy-to-use reading experience with access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore™, one of the world's largest digital catalogs of books, magazines and newspapers with over 2 million titles.

Barnes & Noble's interactive NOOK Magazine™ experience features popular titles such as Esquire, Maxim, Men's Health, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, National Geographic, Travel + Leisure and many more. All can be enjoyed with a 14-day free trial, via subscription or purchased in single issue form. Magazine reading is easy and engaging with NOOK for Android on tablets. Readers can enjoy full-color pages in landscape and portrait mode, and Barnes & Noble's exclusive ArticleView technology which features only the article's text, customized to the reader's favorite style, on a central panel on the display.

"Mobile ads have proved an efficient and engaging way for us to reach new users," said Eli Hurwitz, Senior Manager of Digital Marketing at Barnes & Noble. "It's been great working with the Amobee team; they just deliver when it comes to mobile advertising."

"Barnes & Noble is not only superb at bringing the best selection of digital content to mobile users, but they are savvy and creative in how they engage current and potential customers," said Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee. "It is great to see mobile advertising take the lead in marketing this holiday season. Reading has never been so festive!"

ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 705 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 636 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers, devices from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Follow Barnes & Noble on Twitter (www.bn.com/twitter), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/bnstudio).

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[12thman]

BKS looking to break out of a long term downtrend here.

[12thman]

Missed the big jump but it's still worth watching imo.

[12thman]

Adding BKS back on my watchlist.

[12thman]

I still like this stock long term.

[Seminole Red]

DJ Barnes & Noble Settles Patent Suit Over Nook E-Reader



DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) said it settled a lawsuit over its Nook e-reader filed by Spring Design Inc., maker of the Alex e-reader, ending more than a year of litigation.

Financial terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.

The court challenge filed in November 2009 claimed Barnes & Noble had illegally copied a screen design from Spring Design's Alex eReader. The bookseller filed for dismissal but was rebuffed last December in U.S. district court.

Under the agreement, Spring Design granted Barnes & Noble a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for the entire portfolio of Spring Design's portfolio. Barnes & Noble said the deal resolves all of the design firm's claims, dismissing them with prejudice.

Shares of Barnes & Noble were down 5 cents at $12.65 Wednesday morning.

-By Drew FitzGerald, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2909; [e-mail]

[12thman]

I'll see if I can get some interest here...

[12thman]

Nice website. Fast and free shipping on orders over $25.00!

[12thman]

Anyone out there?

[12thman]

My favorite book store needs an IBOX update!

[Seminole Red]

i dunno....looks like a good play

[JustCallMeSassy]

21.05 0.79 3.90%
as of 04:01 PM EDT on 08/21/2009 in USD (NYSE Delay: 15 mins.)
Day Low 20.439:31 AM EDT
Day High 21.123:17 PM EDT
Range 0.69
Volume 1.26 M
30-Day Avg Vol 1.04 M
Difference 20.59%
Market Cap 1.2 B
Mkt Cap Chg 45.06 M
Shares Out 58.19 M
% Shrs Traded 2.17%
1yr EPS Est 1.426
52-Wk Low 10.77
52-Wk High 33.64
Range 22.87
Prev Close 20.268/20/09
Today's Open 20.44
Change 0.89%
Dividend (TTM) 1.00
Div Yield (TTM) 4.79%
Ex-Div Date 06/05/2009
Div Date 06/30/2009
Short Interest 12.33 M
Performance Details
Revenue (LFY) 5.12 B
Earnings (LFY) 75.92 M
Earnings (MRQ) -2.69 M
Next Earn Est -0.187
Next Earnings 11/16/2009
EPS (TTM) 1.33
1yr EPS Growth -4.30%
P/E Ratio (TTM) 15.04
P/E Ratio (Fwd) 14.00
PEG Ratio 1.75
Return on Equity 8.00
Beta 1.06
Sector Services
Industry Specialty Retail

[analogdog]

why is everyone missing this? lol