A “battle philosophy” is what agent-turned-entrepreneur Joe Regal said drove him to launch Zola Books, the new ebook retailer he, along with a handful of authors and tech industry veterans, recently unveiled. Regal is the first to admit that he never saw himself running a startup, much less becoming an online bookseller. That was until he realized he could no longer support his authors as an agent because, in his mind, the retailing equation became broken. Zola is, more than anything else, his attempt to fix that equation. To that end, it’s the anti-Amazon. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CAMP had to shift from brick-and-mortar to a strategy that more directly resembles a digital publisher with a penchant for e-commerce. The post ‘A retail media company’: How CAMP wants its online content to eventually drive customers back to stores appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2021-02-03 05:01:00 UTC ]
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CAMP had to shift from brick-and-mortar to a strategy that more directly resembles a digital publisher with a penchant for e-commerce. The post ‘A retail media company’: How CAMP wants its online content to eventually drive customers back to stores appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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Booksellers across the country have had a variety of reactions to the news that BookExpo has been closed. While many said the show had lost its focus and no longer served their needs, some remained hopeful that the show might return in a new format. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Customer behaviour is shifting towards ethical consumerism while online becomes much more than a “hits business”, Bookshop.org's UK m.d. Nicole Vanderbilt has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 19:59:59 UTC ]
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Eleven areas in Scotland are being moved to tier four restrictions, meaning all non-essential shops have to close, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 11:02:32 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association (BA) has written to key government ministers and Lords calling for bookshops be classed as essential retailers, allowing them to reopen during lockdown in England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 11:56:02 UTC ]
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New online retailer Bookshop.org secured sales of around £65,000 in its first day, making £16,000 for indies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 12:21:42 UTC ]
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Bookshop.org, a retail site billed as a way for indies to counter Amazon’s online dominance, has today revealed the members of its UK board. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 09:56:56 UTC ]
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Bookshop.org, a retail site billed as a way for indies to counter Amazon’s online dominance, is coming to the UK in time for Christmas after smashing its US sales targets since launching in late January. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-11 06:49:17 UTC ]
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For the quarter ended August 1, sales in Barnes & Noble Education’s retail segment dropped 42.2% from the comparable period a year ago, falling to $158.8 million. In the period, comparable store sales fell 42.8%, which B&NE said accounted for $106.6 million in lost revenue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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This year's virtual Wigtown Book Festival will host the world premiere of Alexander McCall Smith's song cycle, "Ninian's Gift". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 14:58:18 UTC ]
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Ex-White House protocol chief Capricia Penavic Marshall on diplomatic details that matter. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Soft science fiction focuses on the social sciences, is more philosophical in approach, and explores the important social issues of our time. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-08-21 10:36:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press is publishing a new translation of Émile Zola’s Doctor Pascal, marking the first time that the English translation of his complete 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series has been in print under one publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-13 10:21:05 UTC ]
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The Christian Retail Association surveyed over 220 independent Christian bookstores to see how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted them, offering an idea of the number of store closures, furloughs, layoffs, and ways retailers are coping. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, in partnership with the newly created Comicbook United Fund, have raised more than $950,000 to be used to support comic shop retailers struggling to survive during the pandemic lockdown. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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This flat-pack purse is designed to be shipped. Ikea built an empire out of a simple idea: furniture designed in such a way that it could be flat-packed to ease shipping costs and eliminate the need for a delivery truck. Today, that same innovation comes to purses, as the Milan-based bag label... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-05-06 09:00:23 UTC ]
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Elliott Advisors, owner of Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, has bought Wordery, the online bookselling division of U.K. wholesaler Bertrams. Aurelius, which owns Bertrams, said it was "reviewing its strategic options" for the wholesaler. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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But after a peak in March, the audience has started to shrink. “There’s only so much content people can consume,” a Nielsen executive says. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-04-30 21:29:30 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak asking for a series of measures to support booksellers during the Covid-19 crisis, including allowing retail spaces to be "furloughed" and help to keep the supply chain open. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 12:49:34 UTC ]
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