The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nothing has challenged bricks-and-mortar bookstores to reconsider their physical space and what they carry more than the recession and the rise of ebooks. Recently, two independents announced that they will reduce their space. Third Street Books in McMinnville, Ore., which expanded in 2006, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has told UK bookshops that it is shutting its reseller programme, and has invited the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dutch investment company ProCures has bought all 16 branches of upmarket book chain Selexyz.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google will end its Google eBooks reseller program which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through Google's platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The nation's independent bookstores got another bit of bad news Thursday: Google Inc.is closing the books on them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google said the program, which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through their Web sites, was not a success. Bookstores said it was a valuable platform that allowed them to give customers something they wanted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buenas noticias para todos los amantes de los libros que viven en Estados Unidos. Amazon acaba de anunciar una nueva tienda llamada eBooks Kindle en Español. El nuevo servicio dará acceso a más de 33,000 libros que se podrán leer en los diferentes dispositivos Kindle. Esta biblioteca virtual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, London, is to have its own "writer in residence... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of two long-lived campus bookshops serving the universities of Leicester and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editions Gallimard will not sign up to sell its list through Apple's iBookstore because the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Espresso Book Machine means that booksellers can publish and sell an enormous number of titles. But can they make the finances work? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tensions between academic booksellers and publishers are likely to heighten following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new study by Book Industry Study Group says ebook consumers are buying more books – both print and electronic – but they’re buying mostly online and via in-app purchasing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Willesden Bookshop is searching for new premises after Brent council plans to develop the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 0.8% in 2011, the slowest rate of decline since bookstore sales peaked at $17.18 billion in 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2007, bookstore sales declined a total of 9.6%. The modest drop in 2011 comes with one big caveat—December... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wesley Owen has announced it may close all but one of its chain of Christian bookshops, saying... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is to open a Russian-language "bookshop" within its flagship London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American–owned bookstores—Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)—are no strangers to economic ups and downs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The team behind the successful book Change the World for a Fiver has launched a free newspaper... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]