B&N Second Quarter Sales Fall 4.0%

Barnes & Noble attributed its overall decline in the quarter—which saw retail group sales fall 3.5%, and comparable store sales drop 3.2%—to lower store traffic. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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News Corp reports 4% revenue drop

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing arm, which owns Wall Street Journal and the Times, blames ‘challenging advertising market’Dominic Rushe Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weltbild's administrator looks to arrest flagging sales

Four weeks after Weltbild's owners, a consortium of 12 diocese of the Catholic Church,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. profit tops estimates but ad sales dip

News Corp., the newspaper publisher that owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, beat profit estimates and posted gains in real-estate services and book publishing, even as advertising... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Earnings Jumped 33% in Quarter

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) rose 33% in HarperCollins’ second quarter ended December 31, 2013, to $68 million. Sales rose a more modest 4%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers enjoy surging ebook export sales

UK publishers are reporting strengthening international ebook sales across 2013, with good... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Names Exec Sales Team

Madeline McIntosh, U.S. president & COO of Penguin Random House, has named four executives to new cross-company sales leadership positions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Federated Media Gives Up On Direct Sales, Puts Focus On Programmatic

The rise of programmatic advertising has wreaked havoc across digital media, giving media buyers far more leverage while pushing down the value of publisher inventory. It has also torn apart the traditional ad network business, which is one reason Federated Media, today announced it would stop... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Symons and Telfer to lead PRH sales and consumer teams

Penguin Random House UK has announced a new sales leadership structure, and a new team bringing... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Strong Holiday Sales Power Upbeat Wi9

If Winter Institute is any indication, as ABA president Steve Bercu noted at the conference opening, "independent bookselling is strong, vital, and growing." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac cites 4.3% print sales increase for 2013

Pan Macmillan has said its physical book sales in the UK grew by 4.3% in value in 2013. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Courier Results Up in Fiscal First Quarter

First quarter sales for the period ended December 28 at Courier Corp. rose 12%, to $72.8 million, and net income was up 9%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent website could net Lebedevs millions in standalone sale

Digital division housed in separate company from loss-making print business which owners have been looking to sellThe Lebedevs, owners of the Independent titles, are keeping the papers' website in a separate company in a move that could allow a lucrative future sale of digital assets potentially... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EDC Has Strong Third Quarter

Educational Development Corp. that third quarter sales rose 8%, to $8.5 million, in the quarter ended November 30. Net earnings were up to $547,800 from $525,700. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sourcebooks Sales Rose 22% in 2013

In an infographic sent out Monday afternoon, Sourcebooks says total revenue in 2013 increased 22%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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November Bookstore Sales Fell 4.2%

November bookstore sales fell 4.2% compared to November 2012, dropping to $818 million, according to preliminary results released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Japan to tax sales of content downloaded from abroad

Japan is planning to tax sales of foreign online content such as ebooks, apps and downloaded music by late 2015, according to a newspaper report.Japanese who purchase electronic content from foreign firms like Amazon.com through overseas servers don’t have to pay consumption tax, currently at 5... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weekly Scorecard Tracking Unit Print Sales (in thousands)

Unit sales of print books fell 4% in the first week of 2014 compared to the week ended Jan. 6, 2013, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ tops ebook sales

The Nazi dictator’s controversial manifesto is among the bestselling political books on Amazon and iTunes. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Surges in E-Book Sales

Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic political testament, "Mein Kampf" is surging up electronic book best seller lists, even as sales of the printed version have been stagnant for years.     Continue reading at ABC News

[ ABC News | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade Sales Slipped Through October

Through the first 10 months of 2013 sales of adult trade books fell 0.6% and sales of children’s/young adult dropped 9.7%, according to AAP’s monthly StatShot figures for October. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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