Independent which brought the Millennium trilogy to millions of English-language readers puts company up for saleThe publisher behind The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, independent press Quercus, has put itself up for sale in what it has described as a "challenging" and "increasingly competitive" book market in the UK.The 10-year-old independent publisher, which has had one of the biggest literary hits of recent years in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, said last week that it was expecting "a significant trading loss" for 2013. This follows disappointing sales in the last quarter of 2013, "due in part to continuing issues within the book trade which led retailers to adopt very conservative ordering policies", Quercus said, as well as "a lower than expected upturn in digital sales over the Christmas period to the end of the year".The news of the fall in sales has now been followed by Quercus's announcement to the stock market that it would be "in the best interests" of its shareholders to seek a buyer. As well as Larsson's tales of the hacker Lisbeth Salander – which have sold more than 75m copies in 50 countries – Quercus, founded in 2004, is also home to Stef Penney's Costa-winning novel The Tenderness of Wolves, and to bestselling writers William Nicholson and Peter May. At the end of last year, it announced it would be publishing a fourth book in Larsson's Millennium series, based on the Swedish author's creations but written by David Lagercrantz, in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Leading a team that 'works hard to simplify and enhance the supply chain,' Gardners' Bob Jackson prepares for Frankfurt Book Fair's The Markets: 'online and on the high street.' The post Gardners’ Bob Jackson: ‘To Identify New Retailers’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Ship of Adventures bookshop in London's Hackney has been named in Small Business Saturday UK’s "Small Biz 100" for 2016, a campaign promoting and supporting small businesses on the high street. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Richard Smullen says a painfully long wait for a Delta Air Lines customer service rep inspired him to join the world of artificial intelligence. One night about a year ago, having grown tired of waiting for a phone operator to change his flight, he turned to the airline's mobile app—only to... Continue reading at AdWeek
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The world’s biggest online retailer wants to invade the high street. What’s in it for them?In December, Amazon US released its 2015 in-house all-format all-category bestseller list, and then the newspaper USA Today came out with its own industry-wide all-sources version. What was the difference?... Continue reading at The Guardian
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"The dispiriting feeling that...the entire industry is stacked against the author." Douglas Wight isn't the first to respond by creating an imprint of his own, of course. Indie bestseller Barbara Freethy self-publishes as Fog City Publishing, which has a trade imprint for bookstores, Hyde Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Independent which brought the Millennium trilogy to millions of English-language readers puts company up for saleThe publisher behind The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, independent press Quercus, has put itself up for sale in what it has described as a "challenging" and "increasingly competitive"... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The total number of independent bookshops on the high street has declined for a sixth consecutive... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Freezing temperatures and a swathe of snow across the UK has hit the high street, with some... 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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Another year of "breakneck" digital growth, a resurgence on the high street, further... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Analysts have predicted profits at W H Smith will top the £100m mark when the high street... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Retailers have spoken of “dead” high streets in London as shoppers avoid the West End... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booksellers Association chief executive Tim Godfray has renewed calls for publishers to "... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Booksellers Association's chief executive Tim Godfray has said Kobo, Anobii and Hive will... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Waterstones m.d. James Daunt has warned that e-lending in libraries will put further pressure on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Gooseberry Patch, originally founded in 1984 as a mail-order catalogue company selling old-fashioned, country-style products, began publishing cookbooks in 1992, but the Delaware, Ohio, company almost didn’t make it through the Great Recession. “Gooseberry Patch ran headlong into the economic... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Christmas 2011 will be "tough" for many on the high street, a leading retail analyst... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mary Portas is expected to suggest cutting regulations for traders and launching a national... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 09:44 Total group sales at W H Smith have dropped by 3% in the last 10 weeks, with like-for-like sales down by 6% in comparison to last year. This morning (10th November) the company reported in its interim financial results for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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