For any brands still looking to do some holiday shopping, Facebook is making a list of people whose attentions they might want to buy.Starting on Thanksgiving and running through New Year's Day, Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram will let brands target ads to people who publish posts... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops are gearing up to hold the first Civilised Saturday, with events and discounts to attract people into stores cited as the "antithesis to Black Friday". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Well, July 15th is behind us and Amazon's promise of deals bigger than Black Friday. If you were looking for Christmas in July, did you get it? I wasn't that impressed with the selection of Lightning Deals and exclusives, but perhaps you were. Or not. My purchase, and call me crazy (some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is launching Prime Day, "a new global shopping event, offering more deals than Black Friday", open solely to members of its Prime service. The first such day will be held on Wednesday 15th July and will offer customers in the UK, US, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
What effect did Super Thursday have on book sales, and how well did eight leading retailers and pundits fare in predicting the top titles of the year?• Readers turn over a new leaf as celebrity sales stutter• ‘Amazon-free’ Christmas campaign diverts reported £5m worth of sales from online... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble will be offering 500,000 copies of signed works by major authors to kick off the holiday shopping season. But will it be enough? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble's Nook unit didn't have its greatest quarter. The $160 million in revenue the new Microsoft-backed spin off raked in was slightly better than last year's $152 million, but still a significant drop from $220 million. In a sign of the growing ubiquity of e-readers however,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It may be increasingly common for first-time authors who cant place their book with a trade house to publish themselves. But its pretty rare for a self-published book to sell more than 1.5 million copiesor move to the small screen as an animated film to be aired on CBS in prime time on Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]