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		<title>Report of Microsoft Offer to Buy Nook&#039;s Digital Business Drives BN Shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday night TechCrunch claimed to have obtained internal documents in which "Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC." -- and the stock market responded Thursday morning with a jump in Barnes &#38; Noble's stock. It opened up more than 25 percent&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Briefs: Court Hears Google Authors Guild Appeal, and More</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/05/briefs-court-hears-google-authors-guild-appeal-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For avid court watchers, this morning the Federal Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear oral arguments in the fight over whether to certify the author class in the long-running suit brought by the Authors Guild over Google's book scanning. Last year Judge Denny Chin approved certification of the class,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Briefs: iPad Sales, and txtr Expansion</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/04/digital-briefs-ipad-sales-and-txtr-expansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple reported second quarter earnings after the close of the market on Tuesday, saying they sold another 19.5 million iPads (in all sizes) during the quarter. That's only slightly lower than the 22.9 million iPads sold in the previous holiday quarter--for a total of 143.4 million iPads sold worldwide since&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BooksOnBoard Suspends Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longstanding independent ebookstore BooksOnBoard is at least temporarily out of the business. The site is on limited "account only access," and a message indicates: "BooksOnBoard has temporarily stopped selling books. We are re-structuring to compete more effectively against Goliaths who have entered our marketplace since we first launched in 2006....&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Slim Sales, and Slim Margins, for Kobo Devices and eBooks at ABA Stores</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/04/slim-sales-and-slim-margins-for-kobo-devices-and-ebooks-at-aba-stores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital Book World has a long report on Kobo's sales relationship with ABA stores in the US. Sales are said to be much better than what indies experienced through Google Books--but still, by most accounts are negligible, ranging from low dozens of ebooks sold since the initiative launched last November&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>iBookstore Opens In Japan, Writers Group Objects to Random Digital Contracts, and Other Updates</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/03/ibookstore-opens-in-japan-and-other-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple announced the launch of the iBookstore in Japan Tuesday, including titles from a number of the country's largest publishers, promising "hundreds of thousands of books available for purchase." The Kindle store opened there last October, which followed Japanese offerings from Kobo and Google Play. Japan is the 51st country&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Barnes &amp; Noble Stories: Riggio Might Buyback Stores; Nook May Pullback on Devices</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/02/barnes-nook-may-pullback-on-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Barnes &#38; Noble reporting earnings on a delayed schedule this Thursday, possible news is leaking ahead of time. As the company has been looking for a way to split the BN superstores--a profitable but declining business that looks like it should be privately-held--from the Nook Media business, the logical&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Self-Publishing Promotion Gets Outsized Promotion; Amazon Gets Legal Protection for System that Might Not be Legal</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/02/apple-self-publishing-promotion-gets-outsized-promotion-amazon-gets-legal-protection-for-system-that-might-not-be-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's easy to lose perspective when everyone is covering book publishing but there is no common context or compass. This week's big example is Apple's iBookstore extension of a merchandising pilot from their stores in Australia, Canada and the UK to the US: a promotional carousel of about 70 self-published&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>eNews: NYPost&#039;s First eBook (With Harper&#039;s Help); Apple Sells 22.9 Million iPads; Kindle Paperwhite Available in Canada; and More</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/01/enews-nyposts-first-ebook-with-harpers-help-apple-sells-22-9-million-ipads-kindle-paperwhite-available-in-canada-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/01/enews-nyposts-first-ebook-with-harpers-help-apple-sells-22-9-million-ipads-kindle-paperwhite-available-in-canada-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Weinman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Post has entered the ebook market, publishing with their corporate sibling HarperCollins, starting with Tricks of the Trade by Ashley Dupre, the paper's sex advice columnist and former escort who became famous from the Eliot Spitzer scandal. NY Post publisher Jesse Angelo said in a release the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Kobo&#039;s ABA/Indie Customer Is Very Different</title>
		<link>http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/01/kobos-abaindie-customer-is-very-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a DBW presentation, Kobo executive Michael Tamblyn reintroduced Kobo as "the largest ebook company that you may not have heard much about"--since, up until recently, "we have for the most part left the US alone." Tamblyn noted, "we left our US competitors to club each other bloody while we&#8230;]]></description>
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