Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is aggressively expanding beyond its borders, with new stores in Hong Kong and several planned for mainland China, including one in a hotel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Do super-sized bookstores still have a viable business model or are they being reduced to mere showrooms for ebooks? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
“The store is my crack,” says Richard Howorth, co-owner of 34-year-old Square Books in Oxford, Miss., and former president of the American Booksellers Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2012, Brazil became the latest battleground for the big international ebooksellers. Ebook sales have since skyrocketed, with Apple in the early lead ahead of Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is hiring for positions in Russia, suggesting its Kindle ebookstore will open there soon and where they will take on several established, but not yet dominant, competitors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops are an essential link between readers and authors, which is just one reason why we need to save them, say a prominent UK bookseller and UK journalist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors have called on the Venice Biennale to "mobilise intelligence and artistic talent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]