Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 15/02/2011 - 17:04 All remaining 28 British Bookshops and Stationers stores will shut up shop within a month, unless a last-minute deal can be made with any interested parties. The programme of closure will begin over the next week, with around 100 staff being made redundant across 28 stores. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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When it comes to online publishing, building an audience organically with compelling content and monetizing it successfully with ads from big-name brands is extremely hard work. Luckily, there's a much easier way to make money: Arbitrage.The post Tricks of the trade: How to game the publishing... Continue reading at Digiday
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Publishing Perspectives has launched a digital monthly magazine optimized for reading on tablets and screens. Our first issue on Selling & Sales highlights new strategies for boosting book sales. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Computer auction-based system is set to go beyond its roots in display sector but questions remain on transparencyProgrammatic trading of advertising has been around for a decade or so, but advocates believe 2014 could be the year it breaks out beyond its online display roots and takes hold in... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Library chief, Roy Keating, says show will explore field from Misty comics and superhero classics to graphic novelsBoys in the late 1970s probably assumed the girls comic Misty was all boring romance, puppies and ponies. How wrong they were. They were full of "incredibly dark, weird,... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The fact a delegation is visiting the UK over the hostile response to the Guardian's reporting of the Snowden leaks, as well as the royal charter, should sound alarm bellsThis week, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has dispatched a delegation of editors and publishers from... Continue reading at The Guardian
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George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, predicts 5 trends for trade publishing for the year, including a boost for big data and a focus on formats. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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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
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The bad weather and flooding hit Christmas and post-Christmas trade for some, but many... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Paris Commercial Court has approved the purchase of 11 of the 52 bookshops in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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German booksellers are facing a nail-biting finish to the holiday season. With end November sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Independent booksellers are invited to complete The Bookseller's annual Christmas trading... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Three new bookshops have opened in the run-up to Christmas hoping to capitalise on the buoyant... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jennifer Brenninger of the Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pa., talks about several books she's enjoying handselling during the holiday season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style website achieves rapid growth thanks to content including its North-o-MeterUsVsTh3m, the Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style social content website, has more than doubled its traffic in a month, hitting 7 million unique users in November.Trinity Mirror... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Sales for the first eight months of 2013 fell 1.1% in adult trade, 15.8% in children’s/young adult, and 3.2% in religion, according to the newest figures from AAP’s StatShot statistics program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Indies hope to highlight 'books that are a bit quirky and a little bit different' and might be overlooked by chain retailersThe nation's independent bookshops have pooled their collective expertise to identify the best of this year's crop of Christmas books, in a bid to pick out the hidden... Continue reading at The Guardian
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New trade list for regionalized publisher to take its name from the "fore-edge" of a book, opposite the spine. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Residents of Wandsworth in London have seen their dream of opening an independent bookshop move a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Closures were up 42% over the previous year, according to the Guardian. The companies that folded included the 26-year-old healthcare publisher Panos London and Evans Brothers.Ninety-eight British publishers closed their doors in the year ending August 2013. The cause? E-books and online discounts. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Waiting another month for that new inspirational Gloria Gaynor book? You'll survive, most likely -- but just in case, Amazon's debuting a new program called Kindle First. Customers can get early access to new titles for $1.99 - or for free, if they're a member of the exclusive club that is... Continue reading at Engadget
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