Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 14/04/2011 - 09:57 Like for like book sales at W H Smith have fallen by 3% in a "soft" market as the retailer reported a 3% increase in profits to £64m. In its interim management statement, for the six months to 28th February, the group's sales dropped 4% to £686m, with like for like sales falling 5%. Non-fiction sales increased and the business benefited from strong fiction and childrens books. The company said its gross margin for books was up year-on-year. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Book sales in Bulgaria were up 10% in 2012, with publishers reporting more than 5,000 books were published the previous year, of which 1,500 were translations. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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It's well off the triple year-over-year growth that ebooks saw a few years ago, but the latest report from the Association of American Publishers shows that ebooks did inch up even further in 2012 to account for a sizeable chunk of overall book sales. According to its figures, ebooks now... Continue reading at Engadget
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Book sales at W H Smith dropped 6% like-for-like in the six months to 28th February, according to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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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
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Spain’s financial crisis and slump in book sales has led Spanish-language publishers to focus on Latin America, with agents bypassing Spain to sell rights directly in the region. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012, the Italian Publishers Association presented statistics about Italy's book market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Despite a dip in overall book sales down under, Australian agents and rights managers report a booming business from the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Retailers say the summer’s mixed weather is giving book sales a lift, with Nielsen BookScan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Waitrose is now an "increasing force in fiction‚" having extended its book range... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon & Schuster has revealed a 14% increase in like-for-like book sales in the UK, including... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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WH Smith has reported a 3% rise in group profit year-on-year for the six months to 29th February... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The book market could receive an Olympic boost of around £16m if bookshops decide to take... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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By encouraging readers to tackle longer, more sophisticated novels, the queen of daytime TV may have hurt overall fiction sales. Continue reading at The Atlantic
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Disney Book Group, Hyperion Books, and Marvel have signed a preliminary agreement to move to the Hachette Book Group for book distribution services. Disney Book Group and Hyperion Books will move their distribution to Hachette, while Marvel will expand its existing relationship with Hachette,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Nineteen staff at book sales and distribution company Publishers Group UK are facing redundancy... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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At a time when ebooks and e-tailers are capturing a greater portion of the bricks-and-mortar book market, sidelines have become essential for filling the void formerly occupied by booksand keeping cash registers ringing. So much so that when Eileen McGervey opened One More Page in Arlington,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The appointment late last month of Hector Sierra as general manager and senior v-p for National Geographic Societys books division completes the new management team that will now drive the book operation for one of Americas best-known brands. The change in the division began last October when... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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