Mary Beth Thomas Out as HarperCollins Offers Sales Buyouts

Mary Beth Thomas, the v-p and director of independent retail sales at HarperCollins, has left the company, PW can confirm. In addition, HarperCollins is offering a voluntary buyout program for salespeople, according to a person familiar with the matter. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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BA aims to kick-start indie ebook sales

The Booksellers Association is in “advanced” talks with two companies over an ebook... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parade Launches App To Enhance Content Offerings

After months of planning, PARADE Magazine is rolling out a mobile app to cultivate advertisers and enhance the content offerings to its existing reader base. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily-deal sites offer magazines circulation growth

Daily-deal sites like Groupon have proved a challenge for restaurants that can't handle the influx of hundreds of customers redeeming deals all at once. Publishing companies, however, are built to scale their audience as needed. For the past two years, there's been a healthy amount of debate—and... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin sales top £1bn as ebook revenues grow 106%

Penguin has reported sales of £1.04bn in 2011, growing 1% on an underlying basis, though... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Real-Time Advertising Bidding Offers Publisher Control

As publishers attempt to make online advertising a profitable and engaging business model, real time bidding on Web inventory by prospective clients is becoming more prevalent. Conde Nast launched a private Web ad exchange with AdMeld for select clients in late 2011, and now smaller publishers... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble offers to repartition Nook Tablet storage, concedes you may need more than 1GB

Are you one of the many infuriated with Barnes & Noble over how it partitioned the storage on the Nook Tablet -- leaving you just 1GB for you own files? Well, it looks like the company has learned from its mistakes. While only about 5GB is free to load with apps and media on the new 8GB... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's book sales soar in spring half-term break

Sales of children's books rocketed 30% week-on-week as the spring half-term break resulted in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales and profit up at Quarto

International co-edition publisher Quarto has pledged to "redouble" its efforts to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fnac sales fall 3.2% in 2011

The leading French cultural products chain Fnac has reported a dismal performance in 2011, even... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookstore Sales Slipped in 2011

Bookstore sales fell 0.8% in 2011, the slowest rate of decline since bookstore sales peaked at $17.18 billion in 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2007, bookstore sales declined a total of 9.6%. The modest drop in 2011 comes with one big caveat—December... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media Decoder Blog: HarperCollins Is Said to Acquire Rights to Amanda Knox Memoir

Many in the publishing world were convinced that Ms. Knox's story would be a huge best seller, overcoming concerns that she may not be a sympathetic figure to some of the public. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Evolving Role of the Sales Rep

In the past few years everything about the book business has changed, and with it the role of the rep, or district manager, as many are now known. In part that’s a reflection of how ordering has changed, especially with the increasing adoption of Edelweiss, the interactive publishers’ catalogue... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elsevier increases sales and profits

Elsevier increased sales and profit in 2011 as the company said the decline in print sales was... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cold snap book sales plunge 16% year on year

Printed book sales slipped 3% week on week last week, and were down 16% year on year as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Channel 4 hires Hearst's Matt Salmon as head of agency sales

Channel 4 has appointed Matt Salmon, group commercial director at Hearst Magazines UK, as head of agency sales. Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review: 'Killing the Messenger' by Thomas Peele

The murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey and a family's violent rise to prominence is given gripping life.On a morning in August 2007, a slender masked man ran up to Chauncey Bailey on an Oakland sidewalk and fired two shotgun blasts at the journalist. The first slug tore through Bailey... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Works ups pre-Christmas sales by 12%

The Works is heralding a revived "commitment to books" after appointing a new c.e.o.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A quarter of Hive sales digital, says Gardners

Nearly a quarter of all books sold on Hive since October have been digital, Gardners has revealed... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK sales drop 4.5% in fourth quarter

Hachette parent company Lagardere has reported a 5.9% fall for net sales in its Publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retail sales see 'second worst January' since records began

UK retail sales returned to negative like-for-like growth last month, in what was described as... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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