Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 28/09/2011 - 08:45 The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 is to host an event at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London, as it links up with the iBookstore. Shortlisted authors Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt and A D Miller will take part in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 28/09/2011 - 08:47 London's independents have joined forces to publish a map of the city's bookshops. The London Bookshop Map features 87 indies from across the city including ones selling new, antiquarian, specialist and second hand titles. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page and Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 20/09/2011 - 10:14 The Travel Bookshop premises in Notting Hill will reopen as a bookshop this week after The Book Warehouse acquired the lease to one-half of the building from the Travel Bookshop's founder Sarah Anderson. read... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Clearly, 2011 will not be considerered a stellar year for a wide swath of bookselling: Borders is in the midst of closing its remaining stores; Books-A-Million has had two disappointing quarters, and Barnes & Nobles growth is coming primarily from ebooks and the Nook, while print, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 16:39 The Big Green Bookshop is marking the scrapping of the iconic decade-long Waterstone's three for two offer by launching its own. For one day only (10th September) the London independent bookshop based in Wood Green will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 06/09/2011 - 08:50 The last bookshop in Southwold is closing down next week after its owner Booksource sold the lease. Selling both second-hand and new books, independent Bookthrift was the last bookshop standing in the Suffolk town after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bookstore chain landscape has undergone seismic shifts over the past 20 years and will enter the fall with approximately 1,100 fewer stores than dotted the country in 1991. Just as it is today, Barnes & Noble was the country's largest bookstore chain 20 years ago, closely trailed by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 24/08/2011 - 08:53 Derwent Bookshop in Cumbria has become the latest independent bookshop to signal its closure, blaming competition from other vendors, the existence of ebooks and internet bookselling for its demise. The Workington-based shop,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 23/08/2011 - 08:28 A bookshop founded by A A Milne's son may be saved from closure as the owners enter tentative talks with new buyers. The Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth was opened 60 years ago by Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 23/08/2011 - 09:15 The Travel Bookshop in west London, which was made famous by the Hugh Grant film "Notting Hill", is closing down in two weeks' time. The London shop on Blenheim Crescent was founded 32 years ago and is owned by European... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 18/08/2011 - 11:50 Children's publisher Walker Books has become the latest to sign up to the iBookstore, with books by the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Cassandra Clare and Patrick Ness on sale. Paul Rhodes, head of digital at Walker Books, said:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
When iconic bookstores like Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., and the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, Minn., changed hands earlier this year against the backdrop of the closing of Borders, it reaffirmed the importance of independents. But as the new owners quickly learned,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 11/08/2011 - 08:57 The Big Green Bookshop is to hold a comedy gig to raise money for the victims made homeless by the "appalling behaviour" of rioters in Tottenham last weekend. Londons Wood Green where the bookshop is based was also hit by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 10/08/2011 - 15:07 Granta Publications has put its books onto the iBookstore, with all digitised titles from Granta Books and Portobello now made available. Marketing and digital development director Iain Chapple said: "We are committed to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 09:30 Bookshops appeared to have been largely unaffected by the rioting that swept across London and other cities last night, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. As London shopowners began the clean-up this morning,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jay Hancock: Is the death of Borders a bell that tolls for the book trade? Or a business opportunity? Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2011-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ebook seller released an app meeting Apple's new policies but also announced plans to build an HTML5 e-reading app that will work in the iOS browser that it'll control itself, with no requirement that it follow Apple's rules. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Wed, 13/07/2011 - 09:37 Kobo has begun selling ebooks in Germany, including offering 80,000 titles in the German language, and 2.4 million ebooks in total. The ebookseller is also promising that its devices will be sold in a major consumer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 12/07/2011 - 09:24 Quercus has become the latest publisher to join the iBookstore, making the likes of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy available for iPad and iPhone. The publisher does not yet seem to have implemented full agency pricing. On... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
As booksellers look for new services to attract customers, many are increasingly turning to language and writing classes, and are even teaching mah-jongg and tarot. "You name it, we'll do it if it has any relationship to being able to read," says Elaine Petrocelli, co-owner of Book Passage in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]