Elliott Advisors, owner of Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, has bought Wordery, the online bookselling division of U.K. wholesaler Bertrams. Aurelius, which owns Bertrams, said it was "reviewing its strategic options" for the wholesaler. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has now temporarily closed more than 500 stores and furloughed "a large number" of employees across all departments at its company headquarters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has temporarily shut approximately 65% of its stores following the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 09:54:48 UTC ]
While total sales have fallen slightly since the outbreak of the new coronavirus at Barnes & Noble, company CEO James Daunt is confident the bookstore chain can continue to be a profitable venture with one provision—that it is allowed to keep its stores open. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million are currently continuing to operate all of their stores, although both noted they are closely monitoring new developments related to Covid-19. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House teams with TBWA and Barnes & Noble to launch #DiversityEditions for Black History Month. During the Pequod‘s last voyage in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is 58 years old. Physically, he has a prosthetic leg made of whale bone, and a pale white mark or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-02-05 09:00:42 UTC ]
Sasha Quinton, who moved to Barnes & Noble in March as v-p and general merchandise manager, will take over as president of Scholastic's book fair business on January 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones and Barnes & Noble c.e.o. James Daunt has become the first trade figure to be named person of the year for the second time in The Bookseller's annual listing of the most powerful and influential people in the British book trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-13 05:14:10 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country have voted to name Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated fable 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' Barnes & Noble’s 2019 Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
Thanksgiving is this week, which can only mean one thing: we’ve entered high You’ve Got Mail season. I’ve seen the movie at least a dozen times, so when today I endeavored to find an exact quote—for a blog post about Barnes & Noble, the IRL Fox Books-turned-lone-reed—I was not expecting my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-25 17:58:34 UTC ]
Seeing Barnes & Noble stores' character 'crushed' by the corporate 'opulence' of American business, James Daunt says the chain must 'rip out the boring.' The post James Daunt at FutureBook Live: Barnes & Noble’s ‘Crucifyingly Boring’ Stores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-11-25 05:05:12 UTC ]
Bookshops need to avoid being “boring” and apply a “bookseller's mind” to data if they want to survive in an era dominated by Amazon, Waterstones m.d. and Barnes & Noble c.e.o. James Daunt has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 17:39:21 UTC ]
As one of the first initiatives under the leadership of new CEO James Daunt, Barnes & Noble has announced the shortlist for a new Book of the Year award. The nominees and winner are chosen by B&N booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
After Elliott Advisors’ takeover of Barnes & Noble in August, the firm sought the man who turned Waterstones around to right its US acquisition. But what exactly is in James Daunt’s in-tray in New York? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-08 05:47:49 UTC ]
If successful, the move for summary judgment would narrow the scope of any future trial, B&N attorneys say, and more importantly knock out a claim for which former CEO Demos Parneros is said to be seeking roughly $70 million in damages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Jane Love, who worked as a religion buyer for Barnes & Noble from 2007-2018, passed away at age 63 on September 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
I scoured the parenting and pregnancy sections in Barnes & Noble, but the only books I could find about pregnancy exclaimed about it happily. I moved on to memoir, fingers running over the bindings of book after book. Where are the ones for women like me? I wondered. Women who don’t know... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-09-10 11:00:05 UTC ]
The US press has been assessing the likely impact of James Daunt as the Waterstones boss prepares to take over Barnes & Noble. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 12:59:50 UTC ]
Waterstones owner Elliott Advisors has completed its $683m (£537m) acquisition of US book giant Barnes & Noble following approval by the majority of shareholders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-06 20:14:18 UTC ]
Shareholders have filed two lawsuits against Barnes & Noble in a legal row over the sale as the book retailer insists the complaints "lack merit". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 16:58:40 UTC ]