Working the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Barnes & Noble has formally recalled the power adapter sold with their recently-introduced Nook Tablet 7-inch model. The bookseller stopped selling the tablet in early January after a few (now four) reports of “the adapter casing breaking apart while still in the socket” and recommended informally that customers stop using the charger while they investigated further. Under the recall, BN will replace the potentially fault units and provide customers with a $5 BN gift certificate (along with a prepaid shipping label to return the chargers). The company says the recall affects “about 147,000” units — the first […]
Archives for February 2017
Forthcoming: Hillary Clinton’s Personal Essays, Plus Illustrated IT TAKES A VILLAGE; El Chapo Book to Harper; and More
Hillary Clinton will continuing her longstanding publishing relationship with Simon & Schuster, which announced two books for publication this fall. (Actual pub dates were not released, but the S&S website says the books “ship on or around September 26.”) A book of personal essays will “tell stories from her life, up to and including her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign” along with “reflections on the future,” inspired by hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades. “These are the words I live by,” Secretary Clinton says in the release. CEO Carolyn Reidy notes, “We first began talking about this […]
February Bookseller Picks
Amazon chose 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster as their as their spotlight pick, though the book released January 31. (Another pick, The Upstarts by Brad Stone, also published on January 31.) The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak is the featured debut. The rest of the Best Books of February list includes: Universal Harvester, John Darnielle Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari Insomniac City, Bill Hayes Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman Swimming Lessons, Claire Fuller Pachinko, Min Jin Lee Separately, the February Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Elizabeth Poliner‘s As Close to Us As Breathing. For our […]