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  1. Billie Holiday, Songs for Distingué Lovers, 1958 on Verve

    Great set of recordings, with liner notes by Norman Granz. No real detail on the sessions on the record itself, but apparently recorded during sessions in January 1957 in Hollywood – the same sessions that yielded All or Nothing at All and Body and Soul.

    Wonderful versions of “Stars Fell on Alabama” and “One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)” in particular.

    Granz writes on the liner notes:

    . . . quite possibly the best liner notes ever written about Miss Holiday singing songs would be simply to say to the listener ‘this is a fact: Miss Holiday has happened to some songs’ and to the discriminating listener that ought to suffice.

    My copy is a 2024 Barnes & Noble exclusive pressing on yellow vinyl, pressed at GZ Media. May be from a digital source (no credit for mastering – though it is a licensed recording, not a grey market one) but sounds great.

    #1950s #1958 #barnesNoble #BillieHoliday #jazz #NormanGranz #Verve #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

  2. Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83. ABC News reports:
    abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/w

    #BarnesNoble #Books #Literature #BookSeller #BarnesandNoble #Bookstodon

  3. @Chronotope Also heavily at play here in their decentralization of control is regression toward the mean (Galton, 1886) by spreading out buying decisions over a more diverse group which is more likely to reflect the buying population than one or two corporate buyers whose individual bad decisions can destroy a company.

    #auteur-theory #barnes-noble #business-models #francis-galton #human-resources #regression-to-the-mean

    https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/01/55813314/

  4. Unofficial CyanogenMod 10.1 (Android 4.2) build for the NOOK Tablet

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    Barnes & Noble has pretty much tossed aside the NOOK Tablet in order to push the newer NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=51389

    #android42 #barnesNoble #customRoms #cyanogenmod #nookTablet

  5. NOOK Color hackers working on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

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    The Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet that’s already running an early version of Android 4.0 […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=40131

    #android40 #androidTablet #barnesNoble #barnesNobleNookColor #cm9 #cyanogenmod9 #googleAndroid40 #googleAndroid40IceCreamSandwich #nookColor