Print book sales showed "continuing resilience" in 2014, with overall spending on print and digital titles increasing across the year. Meanwhile, online book buying overtook in-store book buying for the first time last year. In 2014, sales of print and ebooks stood at £2.2bn, up 4% from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
La Librería is the first Spanish-language bookstore for children in Los Angeles County, home to 4.9 million Hispanics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three new independent bookshops have launched onto the scene in Manchester, Cheltenham and Cornwall. The Suffolk Anthology opened its doors at the end of last month in Cheltenham, run by former GP Helene Hewett as a family business with her two children, selling new titles, with a significant... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is putting the finishing touches on An Unlikely Story, a general bookstore that he is building from the ground up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The regional shortlists and winners of The Bookseller Industry Awards’ Independent Bookshop of the Year category, sponsored by Gardners Books, have been praised by the judging committee for their “creativity, passion and [for] demonstrating the very best the sector has to offer”. The judges —... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Positioning-based in-store marketing is something more commonly found in Walmart and Apple stores than in bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Already dubbed by the media as a serious contender for Amazon, the new German online bookshop Genialokal.de will finally be launched on March 12th, the first day of the Leipzig Book Fair. The e-commerce platform promotes localism under the banner “fantastically local” and is an initiative of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books & Books, Left Bank Books, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Powell’s Books, and Village Books made the cut for this year's Bookstore Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has made its Prime Now one-hour delivery service available in Manhattan, and the service includes books. How will it impact B&N and other bookstores? The post Will Amazon Prime Now Hurt Manhattan Bookstores? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Poland's OpenBooks.com readers can download and read self-published books for free and decide to pay for them only if they want. The post OpenBooks: A Self-Publishing Bookstore Where You Read First, Pay Later appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Big Green Bookshop is set to hold events at The Old Café – in the former Foyles Charing Cross Road – in an “exciting new partnership.” The Old Café in Foyles’ former home was always a popular venue with literary folk and is still operating after the bookseller moved its flagship store down... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The deadline has been extended for independent bookshops to apply for one of the industry’s most coveted prizes – Independent Bookseller of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards. Indies now have until 5p.m. on Monday 23rd February to submit their entries here to be considered for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some stores are trying to bring in customers with special discounts, while others in particularly hard-hit areas like Boston are working hard just to keep their locations open. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Children's Books US will this July publish a recently discovered Dr Seuss book. What Pet Should I Get? features the brother and sister characters introduced in Seuss’ One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and is about a child’s excitement over selecting a pet. The book will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four bookshops have made the shortlist for the Best Small Shops Competition. Booka bookshop in Oswestry, Main Street Trading Company in St Boswells, the Book Nook in Hove and Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath (pictured) have all made the shortlist of the best 20 small shops in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
One store is having staff act out famous rom-com bookstore scenes, while another is giving a prize to someone with a great love story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie Book Day is set to make a mark on the UK this year after starting in Germany two years ago and quickly spreading across Europe. The campaign – which hopes to become comparable to the American Record Store Day event, but for books – wants readers to flock to independent bookshops on 21st... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s and Foyles are both offering discounts to people who pre-order Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann). Go Set a Watchman, written by Lee before her bestselling novel To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring some of the same characters, will be released on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 4.5% in 2014, to $11.38 billion, down from $11.90 billion in 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookseller Stella Williams tells PW about working at the New York City's famed Strand Book Store, and the plans to grow the store's children's department. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]