Earlier this year the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center closed its doors, but unlike Borders (R.I.P.) the company still has plenty of stores open in the boroughs. And this fall they're bringing some amazing names to their "Upstairs in the Square" makeshift lit parlour. Some highlights are below—these are all held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble at 33 East 17th Street, are free of charge, and are things you can't do on your Kindle! more ›

Borders, the Michigan-based bookstore chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning. The company says it will close 200 underperforming stores and "shed much of its staff." Borders Group President Mike Edwards said, "It has become increasingly clear that in light of the environment of curtailed customer spending... and the company's lack of liquidity, Borders Group does not have the capital resources it needs to be a viable competitor." In other words, Amazon has really taken a bite of out their business. more ›

So you got yourself a Kindle or a Nook or an iPad or what have you for Christmas and you went and bought an ebook or two while you were snowed in. Those things are awesome, right? But now you've got this digital version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo you probably aren't going to touch again. What to do? It isn't like you can bring it over to Housing Works. So, why not lend it to someone else? more ›

To promote his new book "First Stop 2 Forever: My Story," the Biebs headed to New York yesterday to sign 1,000 copies for fans, many of who had been camping outside the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue for days. One fan told Sky News, "It was amazing. It took like five seconds though and I had, I was waiting since Wednesday, sleeping over, but I don't know.. I love him." Didn't you have a Thanksgiving dinner to go to? more ›

The hunch about Barnes and Noble's Lincoln Square location at West 66th Street and Broadway succumbing to the neighborhood's "fashion corridor" status was right: Discount retailer Century 21 confirmed the rumor that it will take over the 60,000 square foot space. more ›

The Barnes & Noble on Broadway and West 67th finally got wise to a regular customer giving himself a 5-finger-discount. After noticing a large number of "lost" books, the Lincoln Center store got the NYPD involved, who set up an undercover sting operation this past Sunday! What they found was 36-year-old Gowan Johnson going aisle to aisle, filling a duffel bag with heavy books (a routine that employees didn't spot earlier?). Later he delivered them to Mark Yearwood and Leonaora Richards, who in turn gave him cash and allegedly planned to sell the books at marked down prices. more ›

In his latest bust of online foul play, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has issued subpoenas to Pizza Hut, Orbitz, Barns & Noble and other big online retailers that give sketchy discount clubs easy access to their customers' billing info. Three marketing companies pay for space on the sites, and then trick visitors into sharing their stored credit card information through a single mouse click. "We want it stopped. We believe it is a classic consumer fraud,'' said Cuomo. Over the course of a decade Affinion, Vertue and Webroyalty have taken $1.4 billion from customers, and reports show they knew full well what they were doing. more ›

Ladies, gentlemen, Anderson Cooper: Olympic gold medalist and America's sweetheart Michael Phelps is in town. Sure, Phelps-mania was put on the back burner during that whole election thing, but it has re-arrived, and if you want to stand in his superhuman shadow then you best get yourself over to the Barnes & Noble at 5th Avenue and 46th Street by 12:30 today. He'll be there promoting his new book, No Limits: The Will to Succeed, which documents his entire life up through his big wins in Beijing. We suppose if he can swim at world record speeds, then it makes sense he wrote a memoir in three months. more ›

News came this past week that surely rocked the cradles of many Park Slope babies: Union Hall is no longer stroller-friendly! Will this be the beginning of a trend where Park Slope parents get booted from their home turf bars? more ›