Even in the digital age, Barnes & Noble can’t avoid the headache of returns. Although the company posted lots of positive results for the year-end and fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, the number most analysts seem to focus on was Nook segment sales for the fourth quarter, which fell 10.5%, to $164 million. CEO William Lynch explained that the decline was due to heavy returns of Nook Simple Touch in the quarter and the decision to delay the launch of Nook GlowLight to May to ensure it met B&N’s quality standards. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roku has struck deals with four marketing tech providers — Analytic Partners, Ipsos MMA, IRI and Nielsen — to provide data breaking down creative types, dayparts and ZIP code-level impressions. The post Roku opens up more advertising data for marketing mix modeling to better compete with... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2022-04-25 04:01:00 UTC ]
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A rite of spring, the White House budget proposal officially kicks off the congressional appropriations cycle each fiscal year. And this year, library advocates have their work cut out for them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Historian Anne F. Hyde examines intermarriage among tribes, and between Indigenous people and Whites, and the challenges these families faced. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-03-11 13:00:33 UTC ]
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In his memoir, Dwight Chapin still looks sympathetically on his mentor and his years in the White House. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-02-18 13:00:38 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has landed Better the Blood, the "engrossing and exciting" debut thriller by award-winning Māori screenwriter and director Michael Bennett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-24 11:17:04 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has snapped up Oliver and The Great Big Universe, the debut middle-grade series by Jorge Cham. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-20 00:40:32 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow has landed three more titles in Camilla Reid's Peekaboo slider board series, illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-19 18:55:15 UTC ]
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Atlantic Books has acquired Camilla Grudova's Children of Paradise, a "stunning" debut novel exploring the lives of cinema workers and sex. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-19 06:20:25 UTC ]
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The Bank of England's first trade book has been secured by newly launched Cornerstone Press in an exclusive submission. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 11:38:29 UTC ]
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White Lion has bagged the first official cookbook inspired by hit television show "Peaky Blinders". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 23:21:05 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group will be the first UK publisher to release an Allison Saft novel with the “rich and tender” YA fantasy romance A Far Wilder Magic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-21 05:14:11 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has inked a deal for Demon in the Wood by bestselling Shadow and Bone series author Leigh Bardugo, the first graphic novel set in the Grishaverse universe, with illustrations by Dani Pendergast. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 07:47:02 UTC ]
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The Indigo Press has acquired Don't Let it Get You Down, a "powerful and provocative collection of essays" from writer, speaker and lawyer Savala Nolan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-14 10:21:28 UTC ]
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Why Antonin Dvorak’s prediction about American classical music didn’t come true. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-10 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent press Rough Trade Books has landed Sheena Patel's "imaginative, vital" debut novel I'm a Fan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-30 18:13:31 UTC ]
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Randon Billings Noble discusses her path to essay writing, current reading life, the anthology editing process, and what's next in her career. The post Witch + Spy = Essayist: The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-11-17 11:00:36 UTC ]
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Richard Osman has won the Readers' Choice award at the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards for his record-breaking debut The Thursday Murder Club (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 20:44:40 UTC ]
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Indie children's publisher Owlet Press will publish three titles focusing on and celebrating “the diversity within Black heritage” early next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-25 15:39:08 UTC ]
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Piatkus has inked a deal for Screens Are Not Your Enemy from Bath Spa professor Pete Etchells. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-18 21:03:37 UTC ]
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Flipped eye has landed Only This Once Are You Immaculate, the "stunning" debut fiction novel by Zimbabwean author Blessing Musariri. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 22:23:11 UTC ]
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