Argos sees return to sales growth

Argos returns to sales growth, led by the popularity of tablet computers and ebook readers, says owner Home Retail Group. Continue reading at 'BBC News'

[ BBC News | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc senior executive denies IPC is up for sale

Evelyn Webster, executive vice president of Time Inc's lifestyle group, has denied long-running speculation that the company is considering the sale of the UK magazine unit, which houses titles such as NME, Marie Claire and Look, confirming "IPC is not being sold". Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Report Sees Gradual Decline in Book Spending

Given the state of flux in the book world, it can be dangerous to predict industry sales trends, but the private investment banking firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson has done just that in its latest annual report, the “VSS Communications Industry Forecast (2012–16).” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Casual Vacancy first-day sales 'exceeding expectations'

First-day sales of The Casual Vacancy are "exceeding expectations," according to the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades sales pass £10m mark

E L James has become only the 12th writer to score sales of 10m or more since official sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades sales pass 10m mark

E L James has become only the 12th writer to score sales of 10m or more since official sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will J.K. Rowling return to Harry Potter?

J. K. Rowling says she'd need a 'fabulous idea' to go back to the world of Harry Potter. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber restructures 'for future growth'

Faber has announced a raft of new appointments, and a change in structure, as it seeks to "... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC distribution woes return

Retailers and publishers are reporting persistent problems with HarperCollins' distribution... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Price Transparency as Sales Strategy

Over the past few semesters the University of Kansas Bookstore and a growing number of independent college stores have begun taking advantage of the way students comparison shop for textbooks by sharing their competitors’ prices on their own store’s Web sites and/or pricing books dynamically... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Earle to lead Bloomsbury Children’s sales

Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Phil Earle to the newly created role of children's sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker sales boost, but down on 2011

Sales of the six novels in contention for the Man Booker Prize trebled week-on-week following the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PA half year: Fiction ebook sales increased 188%

Sales of digital fiction books increased by 188% in value terms in the first half of the year,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital book sales soar in the UK

Sales of digital books show impressive signs of growth, but some booksellers still face an uncertain future. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bumper new releases help book sales surge

Book sales soared by more than £2m last week as a bounty of new books hit the shelves on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BiblioBoard: New Sales Channel for Digital Content

Created by the founders of BookSurge, the print-on-demand vendor acquired by Amazon, BiblioBoard is a new app and e-publishing platform that offers a library of public domain content bundled into subject category anthologies. The BiblioBoard app offers these BiblioLife anthologies at different... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US sales plunge most in biggest markets

The top US regional book markets have seen print sales drop year on year at a far greater rate... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ReKiosk Tries an Indie Online Sales Model

Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James breaks another sales record

E L James has broken J K Rowling's annual sales record as she begins a sixth month at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Growth of a Regional Magazine Company: Open Sky Media

After the acquisition of San Antonio, Austin Monthly and Austin Monthly Home, Hadley Capital, a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations and add-on acquisitions, among other things, founded Open Sky Media in March 2011. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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