Simon & Schuster has created a director of global digital and online sales role based in the US to apply a global approach to sales and marketing across its businesses worldwide. Colin Shields, who headed up the publishers’ digital sales, has been promoted to the newly created position of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
High street chain retailers have been buoyed by successful December trading, The Bookseller can report. Blackwell’s saw a like-for-like sales increase of 3.38% excluding its London Charing Cross Road store, which closed in June. Across its promotion and Christmas catalogue titles, sales were... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
French trade publication Livres Hebdo has scrapped its monthly distance print book sales barometer, which measured online and mail order sales, as an indirect result of Amazon’s refusal to provide any of its data to market research agencies. This refusal prompted Fnac, the largest cultural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brick-and-mortar book stores have clearly been on the decline for a while -- just look at Barnes & Noble's rocky finances. However, there's now some tangible evidence that the pendulum has swung in favor of internet-based sales. BookStats estimates... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Weldon, c.e.o. Penguin Random House UK Lessons from 2013 include: the shift to online sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile and interactive media group Digital Virgo has bought VirginMedia, the online sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
German publisher said it was confident for annual sales after reporting strong revenue growth thanks to its expansion abroad and into its digital business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2011-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]