Following a 2015 in which bookstore sales rose 2.5%, sales in the segment rose 3.8% in January. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon will see how customers respond to its Seattle bricks and mortar store before considering opening any in the UK, its vice president of global public policy has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
An indie prepares to re-open in Pittsburgh; a college store in New England announces plan to go corporate; and a Long Island bookstore gets a new café. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon preps its first Georgia Tech pickup; a new indie is coming to Chicagoland; and a feminist bookstore is set to open in Canada. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is opening a second physical bookshop this summer, it has been confirmed, after new signage was spotted outside the shop’s future premises at open air shopping centre Westfield UTC in San Diego, California. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
First romance-only bookstore opens; BAM continues to grow its used bookstores; and Amazon adds to its campus pickup locations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales rep David Segrue is set to open an independent bookshop with his wife Amanda in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's second brick-and-mortar bookstore will open in San Diego this summer, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The final sign of the bookstore was just that — a sign. Signage over construction in the University Towne Center Mall in San Diego reads, "Coming this summer — Amazon books." Last... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
After debuting its first physical bookstore in Seattle last year, Amazon is expanding its footprint with a second location.Amazon is building a second brick-and-mortar bookstore in a San Diego mall, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, with plans to open the store this summer. The new location... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Relative newcomers, shops reinvigorated by new owners and an institution still innovating in its 70th year are among the regional winners of this year’s British Book Industry Awards’ Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes and Noble has decided to lay down its arms and stop competing with Amazon for ebook and e-reader sales in the UK. The bookstore operator has announced it will stop selling digital content, including fiction and non-fiction, magazines and video... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Brexit (no) to bookstore social space (yes) Waterstones' managing director James Daunt is certain about one thing: He wants 'to sell more books.' The post Waterstones’ James Daunt: ‘Student of Bookshops’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is adding its first campus pick-up location; Harvard is experimenting with an indie bookstore; NYC is about to get two new indies; and East Hampton's local bookstore is changing hands. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comparing the sales of recent musician memoirs after it was reported that Simon & Schuster paid $10 million for Bruce Springsteen's memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A record year for submissions has led to the highest ever number of regional shortlisted entries in this year’s British Book Industry Awards Independent Bookshop of the Year category, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Celebrity chef Rick Stein is set to open a bookshop with his wife Sarah and Cornish bookseller Ron Johns next month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The web giant’s move into bricks-and-mortar bookselling has upset many in the books community – but there is much to praise in this innovationYou could describe it as a troubling development in publishing: someone comes along with no real knowledge of the book business, a brash salesman who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks is awarding Anderson's Bookshop $3,000 after booklovers voted it their favorite indie bookstore in a six-week campaign sponsored by the press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Design-led bookshops are revitalising high-street bookselling, according to those behind the movement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
After years of closings that have decimated the number of black-owned independent bookstores, things could be turning around. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]