Increased sales of the Nook and eBooks have saved the day for Barnes & Noble.
The bookseller has announced first-quarter sales figures of $1.4-billion, an increase of 2% on the same period last year.It comes as traditional printed book sales are dropping. Barnes & Noble store sales were down 3% to $1-billion.
But the company's eBook division grew 140% to $277-million. That includes book downloads as well as the company's hardware - the Nook and the Nook Color eReaders.
Barnes & Noble will be well pleased with this. It's facing strong competition from the big players in the eBook - Amazon with its Kindle and Apple with its iPad.
It says it's hoping to double sales this year in its eBook division.
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