Or, "Are people just hosting more viewing parties of Giada and Paula Deen on Food Network?"

Barnes & Noble is doing ... something. Apparently.

The company is offering home products in a move to compete with other online retailers like Amazon.

From Politico: "Curated by POLITICO's editors, the Bookshelf will be operated by Random House, Inc., and will include title selections and recommendations from a wide range of publishers that align with POLITICO's news content in the areas of current events, politics, history, and biography. The Bookshelf allows consumers to browse and search for titles and then purchase both physical and digital copies directly through a range of retailers."

Federal legislation would give states the authority to make online retailers collect sales tax.

Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.

The number of sales of the Steve Jobs biography will be comparatively small for the iBookstore. Publishers and analysts say the iBookstore is still relatively unknown to the general public, especially compared to all the other apps on an Apple screen.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books. The Reader Privacy Act of 2011 will require government agencies to obtain a court order before they access customer records from book stores or online retailers.

Target is the eighth retailer to sell Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch e-readers.

Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.

A poll from Harris Interactive finds that one in six U.S. residents uses an e-reader. Among those who do not own such a device, one in six plans to purchase one in the next half year.

Google is working on a social news magazine for iPad and Android devices