Borders and Angus & Robertson bookstores could begin closing across the country by the weekend with staff made redundant, as the administrators to the failed business try to stem the losses and save the group. Continue reading at 'The Sydney Morning Herald'
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Inclusive publisher Knights Of, which launched a pop-up bookshop in Brixton in October, is aiming to raise £30,000 to open a permanent bookselling business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wellcome Collection has joined forces with the Brick Lane Bookshop and Kingston School of Art and Architecture on an “arresting" light installation window display, themed around "Living with Buildings". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ganxy, founded in 2009 by Joshua Cohen and Aleks Jakulin to help music and then book publishers sell their content online, is going out of business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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About 20 staff are expected to lose their jobs at men’s title, which launched in 2007ShortList magazine is shutting down after more than a decade, as publishers struggle to make free print publications profitable amid declining advertising revenue and the increased cost of paper.The magazine... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mr B's Emporium in Bath has raised almost £64,000 to expand its premises since launching its crowdfunder last month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michelle Obama’s memoir, issued next Thursday in a simultaneous global publication, is the recipient of Penguin General’s biggest ever marketing spend, with campaigns to run across formats, platforms, and even on the bare walls of Brixton... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is opening a second bookshop in Nottingham in time for Christmas trading. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Around 20 bookshops are partnering with Granta, author Rose George and the NHS to encourage the public to give blood through the ‘Share a Pint campaign’. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Inclusive publisher Knights Of is marking its first birthday by opening a pop-up bookshop inside Brixton Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Drama Book Shop, known for its exhaustive collection of plays and books on theater and as hallowed ground for the Broadway set, will shutter its store at 250 W. 40th St. early next year. Its... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2018-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing continuing poor sales, Llewellyn Worldwide, best known for its mind/body/spirit offerings, is shutting down its crime fiction imprint, Midnight Ink, in August 2019, after releasing its final list during the spring/summer season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops up and down the country say they saw footfall increase on Saturday thanks to the Bookshop Day campaign, organised by Booksellers Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The educational publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has completed its previously announced divestiture of the clinical and standardized testing business to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $135 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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June Sarpong, Sophie Mackintosh, Anton du Beke and Max Porter are some of the authors preparing to take part in this year's Bookshop Day on Saturday 6th October, according to The Booksellers Association, whose "unmissable" line-up also has children running bookshops, alongside poetry karaoke,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto Group said that as part of a companywide cost cutting program, it is shutting its Minneapolis office and closing its Voyageur Press imprint. The Cool Springs and Motorbooks imprints are continuing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto has reported an "encouraging" trading performance for the first six months of 2018, including a group revenue rise of 12% year-on-year to $56.2m (2017: $50.2m) and an improved gross profit margin of 50.1% (2017: 48.2%). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers refuse to ‘jump into the wolf’s mouth’ and order Marco Koskas’ Renaudot-longlisted novel onlineFrench booksellers have called on literary judges to “defend books and not those who threaten them”, after one of France’s most prestigious prizes selected a self-published novel available... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The media is wakening up to the threat posed to the high street by Amazon, and the contribution made to wider society by bookshops, Booksellers Association president Nick Bottomley told delegates at the BA's annual conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dutchman Ceisjan Van Heerden has won a bookshop in Cardigan, west Wales, in a raffle draw. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A primary school teacher in Kent has launched an online children’s bookshop to promote little-known titles for primary school-aged readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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