Booksellers reported a significant drop in customer traffic and a commensurate drop in sales, but online orders were way up, forcing bookstores to adapt. Barack Obama's memoir and Jeff Kinney's latest were the most popular titles over the Thanksgiving weekend at stores surveyed by 'PW.' Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Among this week's openings are the Tiger’s Den bookstore/bar in St. Joseph, Mo. And, in other news, Lancaster, Pa., bookstore Aaron's Books is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a downturn in fiction sales, Abingdon is closing its fiction program and broadening its Christian Living line. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins’s novel has now been top of the UK hardback book chart for 20 weeks, outlasting even Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol• How Paula Hawkins wrote ‘the new Gone Girl’A record set six years ago by Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was broken this week by Paula Hawkins’s dark thriller The Girl on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles Book Search is a unique app that enables customers to find the location of a physical book within the confines of Foyle's Charing Cross bookstore. The post Foyles Finds the Future With an App for In-store Searches appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profits at Oxford University Press (OUP) were down slightly in the year to the end of March 2015 because of “difficult trading conditions”, the company has said. OUP had a total turnover of £767m in the 12 months to 31st March this year, up from £759m the year before, it revealed in its annual... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Walker Books Group has appointed Lucy Pleydell-Pearce as senior group and intercompany sales manager. She joins Walker from Templar Books, where she was foreign rights manager. Pleydell-Pearce, who will take up the role 6th July, will manage the inter-company sales flow for books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of print books for the first six months of 2015 were running just about even with the same period in 2014 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Units inched up 0.3% in the period, to more than 286 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Both the Book House in Maplewood, Mo., and Acorn Books in Dover, Del., will remain open. The former had a successful Indiegogo campaign to pay off old debt, while Acorn found new digs in nearby Smyrna. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Mexico has finally launched its full retail operations and a print bookstore; it had previously offered Kindle ebooks since 2013. The post Amazon Mexico Now Sells Print Books Online appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New stores could be opening soon in Novato, Calif., and Dayton, Oh., as two indie chains get ready to expand. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Statistics from the publishers association show that German ebook sales has stabilized, with prices dropping year over year, and print sales are up. The post German Ebook Sales Reaches 4.3% Of Overall Book Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble posted net income of $36.6 million in the fiscal year ended May 2, 2015 compared to a loss of $47.3 million in fiscal 2014. The profit improvement came despite a 4.9% decline in total revenue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's UK website sales rose by 14% to £5.3bn last year, but the company also paid less in corporation tax and received more handouts in government grants. According to accounts filed in the US, net sales for the UK website were £5.3bn ($8.3bn) to the year ending December 2014, up from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the last four years, Waterstones has changed to a company which is more customer-focused, with booksellers who have more flexible working hours, more accountability and higher energy, according to the chain’s m.d. James Daunt was speaking on the subject of the value of booksellers in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While the future of bookshops remains uncertain, one of Wellington's leading independent stores has proven there is still life left in them yet. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornerstone has claimed that the first day sales of ‘Grey’ have been “record-breaking” for an adult paperback in the industry. The latest edition of E L James’ bestselling series – Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian went on sale around the world yesterday, just 18 days after the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Thursday, Ada’s Technical Books in Seattle became the first independent bookstore to sign on for an imprint with Inkshares, a new publisher that melds crowdfunding with traditional publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Comics marketplace Comixology has renewed its exclusive sales agreement with Marvel Comics, and expanded the deal to include sales via Amazon's Kindle Platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A United States Bankruptcy Court has denied the sale of Family Christian Stores, the largest retail Christian chain in the country, to FC Acquisition (a company founded by FCS owners to buy back the business). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irving, Tex., gets its first bookstore in two years with the opening of a Half Price Books, while new stores open in both Brooklyn, N.Y., and Spearfish, S.D. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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