Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 16/05/2011 - 09:56 The economics for booksellers "simply don't work" as they struggle with high costs and low margins, the president of the Booksellers Association has claimed. Jane Streeter was delivering the introduction at the BA Conference at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloggers bring an energy about books and authors that's unfettered by the day-to-day concerns of running a bookstore. Even the namesDevourer of Books, Bookalicious, the Book Ladyimply a voracious appetite for books. For an employee discount and an opportunity to interview authors who come to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
And the winner of this years Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre is... the Drama Book Shop, an independent New York City bookstore dating to 1917, 30 years older than the Tony Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 09/05/2011 - 15:41 The administrators of British Bookshops and Stationers has said it can only pay back eight-10p in every pound owed and expects the level of claims to increase. A recent document published on Companies House said the former... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 04/05/2011 - 15:48 The owners of the Torbay Bookshop, the Paignton based independent bookseller, have put the shop up for sale after almost 20 years trading. Co-owner Matthew Clarke said it was the right time to sell the business, with he and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Longtime Time Inc. executive John Squires, last seen running the magazine industry's version of Hulu, has a new gig: He's at Akademos, a Connecticut-based company that runs digital bookstores for small and mid-sized colleges. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page, Philip Jones and Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 13/04/2011 - 09:28 Bricks and mortar bookshops in the United States face a grim future, with the heaviest book buyers choosing to buy digitally, delegates at London Book Fair were told. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Administrators have announced the closure of 16 more Borders bookshops, leading to a loss of more than 500 jobs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 09:16 Independent publisher Continuum has launched an ebook store, featuring a selection of titles across Continuum's humanities, education and religion lists. Around 2,000 titles will be available for download in Adobe PDF and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:28 The Big Green Bookshop is celebrating after achieving 96% of its path to financial safety. The indie retailer based in Wood Green, north London, sent out a mass appeal to its customers a month ago asking them to buy one extra... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Several years ago, when I was not a bookstore employee but merely a regular customer, I wrote up BookCourt, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, for the Village Voice's Best of New York. My entry posited, though I had no evidence to support it, that single people claimed the bookstore was good... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Administrators have decided to close 12 more Angus & Robertson stores, cutting another 102 permanent and casual positions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 28/03/2011 - 08:54 Seventeen former British Bookshop & Stationers stores have held their first weekend of trade under WH Smith ownership. Nine venues opened their doors as WH Smith stores and eight re-opened under their original name of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 15:49 The BBC's "Faulks on Fiction" and "My Life in Books" series have boosted book sales by almost £500,000, Nielsen BookScan data indicates. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 07/03/2011 - 15:05 The Big Green Bookshop has raised nearly half of its fundraising target to secure its future at the beginning of its appeal week. Owners of the London independent bookshop, Simon Key and Tim West, appealed to 1,000 loyalty... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 04/03/2011 - 09:20 Foyles flagship bookshop will stock more books on the ground floor and provide easier access for customers when it moves down the road to a site almost twice its current size. The bookseller announced its plan to move down the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The administrators of failed bookshops Borders and Angus & Robertson announce the closure of 38 shops across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 02/03/2011 - 18:05 Random House US is introducing 17,000 books to the iBookstore, several days after it announced it had moved to agency pricing. At this afternoon's Apple iPad event in San Francisco, Apple c.e.o. Steve Jobs said users have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an unexpected about-face, publisher Random House announced on Monday that it would adopt the agency model for ebook sales in the U.S., beginning March 1... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Borders and Angus & Robertson bookstores could begin closing across the country by the weekend with staff made redundant, as the administrators to the failed business try to stem the losses and save the group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]