Barnes and Noble

Starting July 18, Barnes and Noble will launch a three week celebration of different aspects of pop-culture -- or, quite frankly, fandoms -- in what's clearly an effort to bring people into its brick-and-mortar stores. But hey, there's some cool stuff happening, and quite a bit of it comics-themed. First, B&N will celebrate Batman's 75th anniversary with a special Batman Day, then it'll have several days of discounts of DC trade paperbacks, then a day of Marvel specials, and then almost a week of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles activities.

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Video: College Humor imagines how awkward Bale's Batman would be in Marvel's much lighter Avengers movieverse. Sales: Barnes and Noble is currently running a "buy 2, get 1 free" sale on select DC/Vertigo graphic novels. Video: Youtube user Arlox imagines if Hasbro (or, I suppose Kenner...

Barnes and Noble has unveiled its new Nook Tablet, a new touchscreen device designed for, among other functions, reading digital books -- including comics. The Nook Tablet will jump out of the gate with a selection of Marvel Comics titles that the publisher said will grow to become the largest collection of its graphic novels (or collected editions, if you prefer) available on any digital platform

In the wake of pulling 100 DC Comics titles from the shelves in response to the publisher's digital exclusive deal with Amazon's Kindle Fire, it seems prominent bookstore chain Barnes and Noble is stocking at least some alternative content in the form of 2000 AD titles...

Last week, DC Comics announced that it would be digitally releasing 100 backlist graphic novels exclusively on the Kindle Fire, an Amazon-owned e-reader, including classics like The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. This decision did not go over well with mega-retailer Barnes and Noble, whose Nook e-reader was excluded by the deal, and has now decided to remove all copies of those specific DC tit

Following the success of its iVerse app online and on mobile devices, Archie Comics (and iVerse) is bringing graphic novel-sized collections to Barnes and Noble's Nook, joining offerings from Archaia and a small handfull of other publishers...

For some reason there have always been people eager to read comic books on traditional e-readers like Amazon's Kindle, even with the advent of full-color, multi-purpose devices like Apple's iPad. Those e-reading comics fans will probably continue to be disappointed, as a recently deployed pricing system for publishers has made Kindle comic booking seem even more pointless...

This week Barnes & Noble announced the NOOKColor, an update of the somewhat divisive black-and-white e-reader tablet the company released in 2009. While the NOOKColor is lighter and cheaper than Apple's iPad, it is in every other way inferior, and, being more expensive than the Amazon Kindle, essentially useless to anyone -- particularly comic book fans. G...