The Oklahoma-based arts-and-crafts retailer known for its ownership's conservative political leanings is coming soon to Manhattan.Hobby Lobby, which opened its first chain in the city on Staten Island in March, has now signed one of the largest leases in Manhattan so far this year, inking a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-07-09 09:48:05 UTC ]
Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK Britons are abandoning the ebook at an alarming rate with sales of consumer titles down almost a fifth last year, as “screen fatigue” helped fuel a five-year high in printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
As temperatures soared across the UK, printed book sales slumped to their lowest level in nine... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 09:43 July retail sales saw a modest improvement, according to figures from the British Retail consortium, though book sales fell to their lowest level for seven years with food continuing to outperform non-food items. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Thu, 04/08/2011 - 15:50 Spending on physical books in July slumped to its lowest level in seven years as ebooks continue to encroach onto traditional bookseller territory. According to Nielsen BookScan data, £111.5m was spent on printed books in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attendance dipped to its lowest level in a decade and traffic on the show floor was noticeably slow, but last week's 2011 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, Calif., was anything but quiet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]