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Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life.

Its survival stands between traditional book publishers and oblivion.

This report is an intraday check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high or low so far today. 52-Week High:

• Netlist Inc.
  
  (Nasdaq: NLST) high of $3.75. Netlist continues to surge on the HyperCloud deal with IBM and Hewlett-Packard mentioned earlier in the week.
  
  Shares are up 95 percent since a close of $1.92 last Friday.
• Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) high of $17.44.
  
  Barnes & Noble moving higher Thursday as CEO Bill Lynch made a presentation at Liberty Media's (Nasdaq: LINTA) Investor Day.

Barnes & Noble took the wraps off of the Nook Tablet during a press event in New York City on Monday morning.

The device runs Android, has a 7-inch LG “Vivid VIew” display, 16GB of expandable storage, 1GB of RAM and a 1GHz processor.

It also weighs under one pound supports up to 11.5 hours of reading time

Barnes & Noble Inc. says Liberty Media, the conglomerate controlled by John Malone, has dropped its bid to buy the bookseller and instead will invest $204 million in the company.

Barnes & Noble is reporting a bigger fourth-quarter loss than analysts expected as the bookseller invested heavily in its e-book reader Nook and as liquidation sales by rival Borders hurt its revenue.

Here is a recap of the top news items from this week on Wall Street: 1. Professional social networker LinkedIn (Nasdaq: LNKD) made its Wall Street debut this week, surging about 15 percent from where it opened ($83/share) and a jaw-dropping 111 percent from where the stock priced at $45/share.

Amid the massive wave of buying, outraged pundits on the Street speculated the underwriters sandbagged the deal so that major investors could profit.

LinkedIn's $9 billion market cap makes it more valuable than nearly 4 AOL's and almost as large as Netflix. 2. Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Look to Liberty Media's 2009 investment in Sirius XM Radio for clues to a possible strategic play.

Barnes & Noble Inc. said Thursday that online retail, media and communications conglomerate Liberty Media Corp. offered to buy the book seller for $17 per share in cash.

That amounts to about $1.02 billion, based on the number of shares it had outstanding as of March.

Barnes & Noble on Monday added an applications store and an email program to its Nook Color e-reader, bringing the $249 device closer to working like a tablet computer in the vein of the iPad.

Barnes & Noble just announced that they're opening their Nook platform to developers and will now begin accepting apps.

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