Barnes & Noble is pressing the strategic advantage that they say their physical stores bring to sales of Nook and will roll-out 1,000-square-foot demonstration Nook boutiques across their stores, starting this summer. The NYT says the new boutiques will be adjacent to their in-store cafe's. The company says they will take space away from their music departments to make room for the Nook nooks, and ceo William Lynch "said that the number of books on display in Barnes & Noble stores would not decrease."
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Separately, Bloomberg reports that BN "filed two suits yesterday to try to fend off demands by Xerox and Alcatel-Lucent that it pay royalties for patents. The US subsidiary of Alcatel says the Nook violates seven of its patents" and Xerox claims that barnesandnoble.com violated four of their patents. "Neither claim is valid, Barnes & Noble said in its lawsuit."
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