We’re in a very personal business,” said Jill Hendrix, owner of Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., who has developed close ties with many of her customers since opening the store in 2001. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Is there an argument to be made in favor of state intervention in the book trade? If the growth of the book trade in Sharjah is any evidence, the answer is yes. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Members of the public have voted Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When On Demand Books introduced its Espresso Book Machine to the U.S. book trade in 2008 by installing a beta model at Northshire Books in Manchester Center, Vt., the company promoted it as a tool for printing backlist titles and books in the public domain, as well as for authors who wanted to... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad revenue at The New York Times Co. declined 8.9% in the third quarter from the quarter a year earlier as print ad revenue dropped 10.9% and digital ad revenue slipped 2.2%, the company said today. Circulation revenue, however, increased 7.4% on the strength of growing digital subscriptions and... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association’s IndieBound scheme is creating a consumer-facing website of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Early last month Junot Díaz nearly caused a riot when hundreds of fans descended on the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City to hear the author read from his latest, This Is How You Lose Her. But, to put it mildly, not every author is Junot Díaz, and getting a crowd to hear you read... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 28 million physical copies around the world, though... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Zealand has officially taken centre stage at the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino is to step down from her role in 2013, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown) has officially become the fastest-selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Children's has snapped up rights to The Breathing series by self-published author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four independent presses have made the shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize, with the winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Edinburgh Bookshop is changing hands after five years so that founders Vanessa and Malcolm... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The deals between four publishers, Apple and the European Commission over its ebook price-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anobii has postponed until 2013 an affiliation scheme it devised to enable independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past decade sales patterns have changed, with fall, or “holiday,” sales picking up later and later—often in the last two weeks of the season. But things could be different this year. With the closing of Borders, many stores saw a significant uptick last November, and for some, like San... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookworld, formerly Borders.com.au, has internet giant Amazon in its sights with new book business. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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