Barnes and Noble News

The Amazon Kindle, of course, has been leading the pack, but Sony seems to have sold more than a handful as well, and its new Sony Daily Edition e-reader may be in short supply.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Sunday it would delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays.

An electronic page, that is. E-readers are the digital devices that put a library in a reader's hand and sometimes can be a direct line to newspapers and magazines.

Retail stocks were mixed on Tuesday after retailers Zale Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc.

White-hot consumer demand for the new Nook e-book reader is proving to be a mixed blessing for Barnes & Noble.

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Veronica Castilln's desk at the Laredo Independent School District's communications office is laden with letters from fourth-graders hoping to persuade a Fifth Avenue executive their border city is worthy of a big-name bookstore.

Fairbanks' Fred Meyer stores have sold more copies of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" than the company's Anchorage sites, but the store in Palin's hometown of Wasilla is the retailer's best at selling the former Alaska governor's memoir.

Amazon had what has been interpreted by some as good news: Barnes & Noble has already sold out of its Nook e-book reader .

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Warner Music Group Corp., down 86 cents at $6.20 The recording company posted an unexpected loss in the fourth quarter on severance costs despite a strong slate of music releases.

Major indexes posted modest losses Tuesday, as drops in financial and industrial stocks were tempered by gains in health care companies.

Barnes & Noble Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!bks /quotes/nls/bks said Tuesday that its second-quarter net loss widened to $24 million, or 43 cents a share, from a loss of $18 million, or 34 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

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Hundreds of Sarah Palin fans are already lined up outside the Borders bookstore in Henrietta, getting ready for Sarah Palin's visit on Saturday.

Barnes & Noble Inc. said Nook, its device for reading digital versions of books, sold out its initial production run and won't ship new purchases until the week of Jan.

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Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas.

As Sony Corp. a s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products.

The Nook e-reader will debut on November 30 at Barnes & Noble Inc. stores, joining several new electronic reading devices hitting the market soon.