Increased foot traffic in retail shops, new accounts, and reliable backlist sales translated into a good year for Chronicle Books last year. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Tezuka Productions and Digital Manga, Inc. have announced a deal to translate and digitally publish hundreds of volumes of manga by revered manga and anime creator Osamu Tezuka. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This year's New York International Toy Fair was characterized by steady traffic on the show floor, key customers roaming the aisles of the Javits Center, orders being written, and meetings being accomplished. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The San Antonio Express-News will consolidate its packaging operations with the Houston Chronicle, Express-News publisher John C. McKeon announced Wednesday. Both newspapers are owned by New York-based Hearst Corp. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Launched a month ago in Exeter, N.H. by Jeremy Townsend, Books for Animal Lovers is an online retailer offering just what its name specifies—books about animals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the surface, Seattle might seem like a tough area to ply the independent bookselling trade. Yet many Seattle booksellers are upbeat about the prospects ahead. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holiday sales for the nine-week period ended December 28 fell 6.6% at Barnes & Noble’s retail segment and tumbled 60.5% in its Nook division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The books will be reissued in both trade paperback and ebook formats, and will feature updated interiors and new cover treatments. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trinity University Press to reissue forgotten mid-20th-century naturalist and author Donald Culross Peattie's backlist, including A Natural History of North American Trees. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Every retail premise with a rateable value of up to £50,000 will receive a discount of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Redhammer has sold film rights to Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness six-strong... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Klipper, CEO of Barnes & Noble Inc.'s retail group, which includes its bookstores but not its Nook unit, sold about 67% of his shares of the company, according to an SEC filing late Monday.Mr. Klipper sold a total of about 400,996 shares for between $13.99 and $14.53 per share.He... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the U.S. economy crumbled, Choire Sicha wrote a nonfiction book about its effect on a group of young men in New York in 2009.Let's say you had the misfortune to be young and broke in 2009. Some people moved back in with family members. Some people's parents helped them get a job. Others... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a conference call B&N executives cited the importance of device production to content providers, pointed to the advantages of its physical stores in conjunction with digital distribution and outlined new strategies to address mounting Nook Media losses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Could limiting the period for fixed book prices give a needed boost to backlist sales by allowing retailers to discount after the initial buying frenzy is over? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft's Xbox One is getting decidedly more indie-friendly with today's confirmation from Microsoft that its forthcoming game console will double as a developer debug unit. In so many words, each $500 unit purchased at retail this holiday will also run in-progress game code, enabling... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Caffeine Nights Publishing has acquired more than 30 titles in the backlist of horror writer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Doug Pocock will take over as the new m.d. at Abrams & Chronicle Books (A&CB), starting... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Publishers Weekly’s May 8 discussion series on trends in consumer book-buying, held at the offices of Random House in New York City, Carl Kulo, U.S. director of Bowker Market Research, highlighted the major shifts that took place in 2012 in such key areas as sales by format and by channel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online retailer Pages has launched today (9th May) selling only books by independent publishers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Looking to provide info to retailers, librarians, and consumers interested in its book-format comics, DC Comics is publishing the DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels and Chronology 2013, a 121-page reading guide and index to the publisher’s extensive backlist of collected and original... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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