British novelist Michelle Lovric and Strega Prize-winner Tiziano Scarpa are among a large group... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A trade-wide promotion that celebrates books and bookshops is to launch in September, backed by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed book sales in the UK fell by more than 15% last week, as the established post-Easter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
What if you could program a retail environment like you program a desktop application? Miniature computers, pervasive networking, and affordable tablet interfaces make programmed retail environments seem inevitable. Instead of using the familiar mice and monitor for system interaction, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In France, the government will add €5 million in funding to help indie bookstores in the form of tax breaks, interest-free loans and stronger enforcement of fixed price laws. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has unveiled part of the government’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A 30% rise in rent has forced London’s 16-year-old Lamb Bookshop to close. Owners Ben... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The crucial role of physical bookshops to a healthy publishing industry was underlined this week... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales at independent bookstores rose nearly 8% in 2012 over 2011, according to an American Booksellers Association (ABA) survey. Are their worst days behind them? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK bookstores are experimenting with exclusive chapters and other offers to lure customers into stores and away from online shopping at Amazon, but some doubt its efficacy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Back in the 1980s—before bookstores began weighing the addition of cafes, possibly with wine and beer licenses—stores like Louie’s Bookstore Café in Baltimore and Trident Booksellers & Café in Boston aimed specifically to integrate food for the mind and the body. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dressing bookshop windows is a dying art, but if done with a sense of theatre, it can be a stepping stone to a digital campaign – one that the public unknowingly runs for you. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not only is the venue surviving in downtown L.A., it has expanded. Neighboring artists help transform an upstairs space into the Labyrinth.The staircase is narrow and creaky, with a bookshelf made from a 100-year-old harp case teetering on the precipice of collapse at the top of the landing.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The stores charge that secret agreements made between the publishers and Amazon give Amazon the advantage in selling ebooks, but some industry observers find flaws in their logic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association in the UK latest membership figures for the year 2012 revealed 79 stores closed, 39 opened and total membership was 3,580. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The total number of independent bookshops on the high street has declined for a sixth consecutive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau show that US bookstores as a whole experienced a 0.5 percent decrease in sales for the year of 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley has said the idea of the bookshop as a book club, charging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A number of independent bookshops are to close in the first quarter of 2013 ahead of the business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
As glad as we are that digital bookstores let authors skip the usual gatekeepers, that doesn't help much if they can't get noticed. Apple is giving those self-publishing writers more of a chance to shine with the launch of a permanent Breakout Books section in the US iBookstore. The section... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]