Growth of Online Sales Cushioned Pandemic Blow at Indigo

Online sales jumped 127% at Indigo Books & Music in fiscal year 2021 over FY 2020, partially offsetting a 34% decline in sales through its physical stores. Still, sales dropped 5.5% in the year, and the bookseller's losses deepened. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Amazon-free’ Christmas campaign diverts reported £5m worth of sales from online retailer

Amazon Anonymous campaigners hand-deliver giant Christmas card to online retailer’s UK headquarters and call for company to pay workers a living wageDisenchanted shoppers have taken over £5m worth of business away from Amazon this Christmas in protest at the internet retailer’s business... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Livres Hebdo stops measuring online sales

French trade publication Livres Hebdo has scrapped its monthly distance print book sales barometer, which measured online and mail order sales, as an indirect result of Amazon’s refusal to provide any of its data to market research agencies.   This refusal prompted Fnac, the largest cultural... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Flat sales but underlying growth for CUP

Cambridge University Press has reported a sales increase of 5% at constant currency rates in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US book publishers now make more money from online sales than physical stores

Brick-and-mortar book stores have clearly been on the decline for a while -- just look at Barnes & Noble's rocky finances. However, there's now some tangible evidence that the pendulum has swung in favor of internet-based sales. BookStats estimates... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indigo Third Quarter Sales Rose 3%

Revenue at Indigo Books & Music rose 3.0% in the third quarter ended December 28, 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Growth in ebook sales slows in 2012

The number of ebooks sold last year grew by 43 percent, but that's a fairly small increase compared to the triple-digit increases of past years. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Amazon reports record sales growth

Amazon saw record sales growth of 22% to $21bn (£13bn) over the Christmas period, with the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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'Huge' growth in bursary sales for Blackwell's

Blackwell’s has reported a major boost this year from universities spending money on books... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Argos sees return to sales growth

Argos returns to sales growth, led by the popularity of tablet computers and ebook readers, says owner Home Retail Group. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ReKiosk Tries an Indie Online Sales Model

Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sharp growth in book sales at Waitrose

Waitrose is now an "increasing force in fiction‚" having extended its book range... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book sales growth is slowing

Publishers hoping that digital sales would make up for the decline in physical books are worried. Continue reading at Crains New York

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Quercus reports 270% December ebook sales growth

Quercus has reported that sales of its non-Larsson books increased by 83% over the last quarter... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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US book sales hold up, despite Borders collapse and ebook growth

Print books sales in the US fell 9% in 2011, with strong growth in digital sales appearing to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Retail sales growth "worst for 6 months"

The British Retail Consortium has labelled November sales growth "the worst for six months... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Indigo sales: digital hike, print decline.

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 11/08/2011 - 09:20 Canadian retailer Indigo Books & Music has reported 170% acceleration in digital sales growth, but blamed a drop in overall revenue for its first quarter on declining physical book sales. Indigo attributed the hike in its... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Axel Springer First-Quarter Profit Advances on International, Online Sales

German publisher said it was confident for annual sales after reporting strong revenue growth thanks to its expansion abroad and into its digital business. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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Digital and Kobo help push sales at Indigo

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 09/02/2011 - 07:00 Profits at Indigo Books & Music have dropped by $4.4m year-on-year in its fourth quarter. The Canadian book retailer reported profits of C$30.1m in the fourth quarter ending 1st January, down from C$34.5m in the same... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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'Hillbilly Elegy' Sales Soared Last Week; Sales of Books by Kamala Harris Growing

The 2016 title by Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance sold more than 197,000 copies last week according to Circana BookScan and an estimated 650,000 copies according to publisher HarperCollins. Sales for titles by Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Sales Fall in Q2 as Wiley Lowers Sales Forecast for Year

Sales fell 3% at John Wiley in the second quarter ended October 31, largely due to a 14% revenue decline in its academic and publishing learning group. Trouble in the group prompted the company to lower its revenue forecast for fiscal 2023, though its earnings predictions remained intact. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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