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U.S. retail firm Barnes & Noble said customers who have shopped as recently as last month at any of its 63 stores in the country may have their credit card information stolen, and has informed federal law enforcement authorities about the breach. The company said in a statement it has disconnected all PIN pads from its stores nationwide by close of business Sept 14. upon detecting tampering of those devices. As a precautionary measure, the company said customers and employees who have swiped their cards at any of the stores with affected PIN pads should change the PIN numbers on [...]

Barnes & Noble Inc (BN) took a shot at archrival Amazon.com on Wednesday, unveiling its own lighter and thinner  hi-definition tablets that can accommodate multiple users in a bid to win a bigger share of the exploding tablet market. The largest U.S. bookstore chain introduced the new devices with price tags ranging from $ 199 for a 7-inch Nook HD tablet with 8 gigabytes of memory, to $ 299 for a 9-inch Nook HD+ tablet, similar in size to Apple Inc’s market-leading iPad, with 32 GB of memory. IPad prices are roughly twice as high for similar devices. The new [...]

In an effort to jump into the video streaming business, Barnes & Noble (BKS) said Tuesday it plans to launch a video service this fall that will include content from major studios like HBO, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney (DIS) and Warner Bros. It’s a jab to Netflix (NFLX), which had for a time led the video streaming market, and an effort to keep up with rival Amazon (AMZN), whose Kindle tablets have long led Nook sales. The video market continues to be inundated with new competitors, including Verizon (VZ) and Coinstar’s (CSTR) RedBox that have together chipped away at Netflix’s [...]

Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS) cut prices on three models of its Nook e-reader and tablet devices on Sunday, ahead of the peak of the back to school season and amid speculation that rival Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) is preparing to launch a new version of its Kindle Fire tablet. Barnes & Noble, which has said the Nook has allowed it to win 27% of the U.S. e-books market, said it had slashed the retail price of its Nook tablet with 16 GB of memory to $ 199 from $ 249. Amazon is the market leader with about 60% of e-book [...]

Barnes & Noble Inc. says it’s reducing by $ 20 the price for its less-expensive model Nook tablet computer, undercutting by that amount the rival Kindle Fire sold by The biggest U.S. traditional book retailer said Sunday it’s cutting the price for the 8-gigabyte model Nook tablet to $ 179 from the current $ 199. The Kindle Fire, with 6 gigabytes of memory, sells for $ 199. Barnes & Noble also announced a $ 50 reduction, to $ 199 from $ 249, for its 16-gigabyte Nook tablet. It was the latest turn in the tablet wars, as Apple’s iPad and [...]