Caine, one of the country’s best-known independent booksellers and a prominent critic of Amazon, is selling his majority shares in the Lawrence, Kans., institution to a trio who are currently minority co-owners. The sale will take effect January 1. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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There will be a lot fewer old-fashioned books in the Big Apple over the next decade. Barnes & Noble announced Monday morning that it is planning to prune between 189 and 239 stores by 2023, from its current total of 689. Local real estate brokers speculate that some of those locations will... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite the advances in digital books and storytelling technology, Penguin executive Jeff Gomez says that publishers have so far focused on the wrong things. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To mark its 50th anniversary the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, will award six new prizes for publishers at the "forefront of innovation" and "creative editorial choices." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N will cut up to a third of its brick-and-mortar stores, slowly and carefully over 10 years. Bookseller Barnes & Noble has said it expects to shut up to a third of its real-world stores. CEO Mitchell Klipper has confirmed the plans in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. But... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major publishers are taking wildly different approaches to resolving the woes surrounding ebook lending at libraries: they're experimenting with both the short-yet-cheap subscription as well as an expensive option to pay only once for perpetual use. Sure enough, we're now seeing the middle road.... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy debuted at #3 on the fiction chart in Spain in December, good enough to place it right behind Fifty Shades of Grey, which held steady at #2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lance Armstrong's memoir, "It's Not About The Bike" is the focus of a class-action lawsuit filed this week in California on behalf of unhappy readers.For years, Lance Armstrong denied he had used performance-enhancing drugs to win seven Tours de France. There had been accusations; he'd even been... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales at WH Smith have dropped 6% like-for-like across the high street and travel divisions... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of printed books plummeted with the mercury last week, with data from book sales monitors... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Hazard Owen sums up the problem with book discovery like this: “It doesn’t really work." She offers several solutions gleaned from Digital Book World 2013. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From corporate consolidation to book discoverability, to how books are produced and bought, to the proliferation of new devices to read them on, this year’s Digital Book World was a whirlwind tour of the industry’s changing landscape. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Looking back on this week's Digital Book World conference, we distill the event into three key ideas: price innovation, discoverability and authenticity. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French culture minister Aurélie Filippetti has dismissed the idea of abolishing the 5%... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it. In Bexar County, Texas, the center of the San Antonio metropolitan area’s breakneck growth, a population boom has left some residents without adequate library access. A new initiative will fill... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You want an idea to survive hundreds or thousands of years? Step one: Don’t write it on paper. Alexander Konta believed this deeply. Paper yellows and withers and crumbles; it is the printed form of Alzheimer’s. “Why not make [text] imperishable by photographing the written word after it has... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has named Richard Costa as an associate partner for Brazil and South... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week on PublishNews Brazil: Amazon partners with a kiosk-retailer to sell Kindles in Brazil, Kobo launches two new ereaders, 33% of Brazilians read a book last month. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How two gallery owners found 'Rhoda's Ocean' – an unpublished children's book hiding under a pile of laundry. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The number of children who have read an ebook has almost doubled since 2010 but children still... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, is to release a new book in May called Inferno. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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