Code your text perfectly with this book description generator

Posted on 05/29/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your book’s description on any retail site is likely to be one of the most powerful marketing tools you have...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Barnes & Noble / Nook, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Kobo

Draft2Digital establishes a line of credit to help cover B&N delays

Posted on 04/23/2020 at 09:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Draft2Digital has an update for authors using its services to sell through Barnes & Noble. With sales plummeting during the...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, The business of writing

Draft2Digital: Barnes & Noble royalties are being delayed

Posted on 04/14/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Digital Reader has a heads-up for authors selling their books on Barnes & Noble. Royalties from the bookstore chain...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, coronavirus / COVID-19, The business of writing, The Digital Reader

Barnes & Noble pulls the plug on "Diverse Editions" after backlash

Posted on 02/06/2020 at 08:22 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

That didn’t take long. When The Digital Reader reported on Barnes & Noble’s new Diverse Editions series, which reimagined classics...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Diversity, The Digital Reader, The Guardian

The Digital Reader: B&N demonstrates how not to celebrate African American History Month

Posted on 02/05/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s African American History Month, and as you might expect, bookstores are finding ways to mark the occasion. The Digital...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Diversity, The Digital Reader

Barnes & Noble CEO joins the National Book Foundation's board

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

James Daunt has another new gig: member of the National Book Foundation’s board of directors. The new CEO of Barnes...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Charity

"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" is the B&N Book of the Year

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy, has been chosen as Barnes & Noble's inaugural...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Barnes & Noble / Nook

Barnes & Noble announces finalists for first Book of the Year award

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Barnes & Noble has unveiled the contenders for its first Book of the Year award, to be handed out in...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Barnes & Noble / Nook, Book lists

Barnes & Noble CEO: I'm still an indie bookseller at heart

Posted on 10/30/2019 at 08:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The perception of Barnes & Noble has been almost as wild of a ride as the bookstore chain’s fortunes. Years...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Bookstore, NPR

Mike Shatzkin on what's next for B&N, Amazon, the climate ... and you

Posted on 08/26/2019 at 03:50 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Mike Shatzkin is neither a lawyer nor a fortune-teller, but with nearly fifty years in the book industry, he at...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble / Nook, Joanna Penn