Barnes & Noble reports Q2 2013 earnings: digital content sales up 38%, Nook unit rakes $160 million
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook unit didn’t have its greatest quarter. The $160 million in revenue the new Microsoft-backed spin off raked in was slightly better than last year’s $152 million, but still a significant drop from $220 million. In a sign of the growing ubiquity of e-readers however, digital content sales were up 38 percent while the units overall revenue was up just 6 percent. Of course the Nook is still losing money, having cut $51 million from the company’s bottom line. If you step outside of the digital realm things are looking slightly better for the book purveyor, as profits were up to $65 million — a 15.6 percent increase over the same time period last year. As we enter the holiday season things should start to look up for B&N and there were good signs during the four day shop-stravaganza from Black Friday to Cyber Monday as sales of Nook hardware doubled from last year. For all the fun financial details hit up the source.
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Barnes & Noble
When it comes to vehicle safety, the name Volvo is synonymous. Well, Volvo has come up with the idea of churning out an instrument cluster which is capable of adjusting itself to the driver’s needs. This special combination of merging a couple of processors to power an 8” display would deliver a state-of-the-art driver experience, and you can be sure that Volvo has designed around you.
Apple is working hard to gain the approval of selling the iPhone 5 in China. Finally, its efforts are paying off. That’s because the Ministry of Industry and Technology of the People’s Republic of China has just rubber stamped the iPhone 5, granting Apple the proper network verification of the device and the right to sell it in the country. Today’s report is based on a document taken from a regulatory website which reveals an Apple device that’s similar to the iPhone receiving a network access license.
It was not too long ago that the Nintendo Wii U was released, and here we are with word that Yoshi’s Island Wii U is going to make its way to the latest Nintendo console. Still, this unannounced Wii U title was apparently dismissed by Nintendo in a flash, claiming that the debug menu which showed up the Yoshi’s Island Wii U was just a “mockup”, and needless to say, of no important consequence. However, online retail listings on Best Buy and Future Shop do seem to point out otherwise, making references to the Yoshi’s Island Wii U title. Guess Nintendo was not all that truthful, and Yoshi’s Island Wii U was even listed as a full-scale title with HD graphics.
