Sales for the big holiday third quarter at Barnes & Noble fell 10.3 percent overall to $1.996 billion (down $228 million), but EBITDA improved considerably — on a reduction of Nook losses — to $173 million, compared to just $59 million a year ago, when they first took big inventory losses on unsold Nook devices (of $74 million). In coming attractions, one way or another, in their ever-shifting device strategy they “plan to launch a new Nook color device in early fiscal 2015” (which begins in late April), doing so “in collaboration with a third-party partner.” More broadly, BN says […]
