Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies chain to the mix this fall, making that two options for would-be buyers to try out the device. The deal will put Kindle in Staples—the chain has more than…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is preparing to file for bankruptcy in the middle of next month. [LATimes] »  Newsweek is losing another top editor: Mark Miller, who…

Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-half-old book and document store, sources tell paidContent. A rep for the the San Francisco company confirmed that the company is working on creating products that it can charge…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  The month-long battle between Random House and literary agent Andrew Wylie seems to be over. The publisher is claiming victory, saying it has the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classics books that the Wylie starting publishing under his…

Digital gave Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) a big sales boost from the previous quarter, but not enough to reverse revenue declines or prevent its net loss from deepening. The bookseller is currently mulling over a sale of the company and is embroiled in a proxy fight with activist investor…

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Barnes & Noble	Release		2.5%	-608%

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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) is launching a video portal, DishOnline.com, as part of its own “TV Everywhere” push. [NYT] »  TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is promising advertisers new measurements that combines traditional TV and online viewing audiences. Think TiVo’s service is…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV (or perhaps Apple’s iTV) may just revolutionize TV consumption by truly connecting the computer, mobile and the set top box once and for all, predicts the founder of Digg. [Kevin Rose] »  In order to get…

Very heavily-backed online textbook rental service Chegg has made what is apparently its first acquisition: college course planning site CourseRank. CourseRank, which was founded at Stanford as a class project three years ago and has since expanded to 175 colleges, features a planner which students can use to organize their…

There’s an intriguing thinkpiece in Wired UK’s September edition in which Russell Davies effectively argues that the shape of our content is a product of the media that carry it...

We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a new national U.S. news title via iPad and mobile phone apps.

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Funny, but wasn’t Demand Media always profitable, according to CEO Richard Rosenblatt? Well, as the IPO filing revealed, that really wasn’t the case. [WSJ] »  AppleTV is getting a makeover, starting with the name: the set-top box will be known…

Filling a CES booth with avid potential buyers and oohing-ahing spectators turned out to be a lot easier for Plastic Logic than actually shipping the highly anticipated and much-hyped Que e-reader. Instead of pretending it can deliver a high-end black-and-white e-reader that people will buy in an iPad world, Plastic…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  After the recession caused a pullback in funding original online video production and distribution, the spigots appear to be opening again: case in point, My Damn Channel, whose shows include Easy to Assemble, will announce a $4.4 million funding. [NYT]…

It was pop-culture philosopher Marshall McLuhan who wrote: “All media come in pairs, with one acting as the ‘content’ of the other.” That assertion is true once again, now that a range of developers is pushing out digital products that depend on paying homage to physical-media forebears…

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) says the company will start evaluating “strategic alternatives,” including a possible sale of the company, in an effort to boost the value of its stock price. In a statement, the bookseller says its board came to this decision after feeling that its shares were significantly…

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge…

Today’s launch of an Android e-reader app marks Barnes & Noble’s first foray onto that platform—and a shift in strategy. Instead of “BN eReader for iPad” or “BN eReader for PC,” its e-reader apps and software are moving to the Nook brand. That will put Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)…

This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah. How amazing is it that we’re not really surprised by such…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle 2…