James Daunt (CEO of Barnes & Noble) has come up with a new buying policy for middle-grade fiction hardcovers. In this new strategy, B&N will reduce the number of new books in the middle-grade fiction ...

Ever since James Daunt took command of Barnes & Noble, one of his primary objectives has been to give more book ordering responsibility to individual stores, the theory being that local buyers have a ...

Third graders in Maryland who don’t read on grade level by the end of the school year may find themselves repeating the grade. Maryland’s department of education is considering enacting a statewide ...