In the past year, four major retailers have shut down their storefronts on Facebook this past year. The Gap, JC Penney, Nordstrom, and Gamespot shut down their stores on Facebook because they have not bought anything. It turns out that fans of these brands preferred shopping on retailer websites over doing this on Facebook.

Forrester published a forecast about tablet sales for the year. When Forrester published their previous forecast in June 2010, they were being a bit conservative. Since then Forrester has done more surveys and saw more sales numbers from Apple. Now Forrester expects tablet sales to more than double to 24.1 million in 2011. [Forrester Blog]

Spring Design’s lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) will go on. Spring Design filed a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble because they said the Nook electronic tablet reader was illegally copying their screen design. Spring Design said that Barnes & Noble is allegedly misappropriating trade secrets, violating breach of contract, and is competing unfairly. U.S. District Judge James Ware refused to throw out the case. Spring Design announced a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble in November 2009. The price of the Nook starts at $149. According to Forrester Research, Barnes & Noble is expecting to sell 2 million units by the end of the year. [Reuters]