Wal-Mart Stores' planned competitor to the Amazon Prime service will have a price advantage, but catching up with its e-commerce rival won't be easy.Wal-Mart announced plans yesterday to give online customers unlimited free shipping for $50 a year, half the cost of Prime. What it lacks is Amazon's speed of delivery, along with the bevy of other perks that come with a Prime account."Prime is about so much more than shipping," Matt Nemer, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co., said in a report on Thursday. It offers digital music, ebooks, TV shows, photo storage and other benefits, helping keep customers loyal. And Wal-Mart is late to the party, he said. "Frankly, we're surprised it took Wal-Mart this long to launch any sort of loyalty program." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has soared six places up the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart to score the number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 17:09:49 UTC ]
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From 1 May, bringing forward a plan originally scheduled for the end of the year, the Government has removed VAT from e-books. It was a change lobbied for by many writers, as well as the big publishers. They rallied under the stirring slogan ‘No Tax on Learning’. This is a good thing, surely,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 08:40:06 UTC ]
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The title of a new biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, reportedly written with the couple's co-operation, has been revealed as Finding Freedom. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-03 16:33:59 UTC ]
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Sales increased to $75.5 billion in the second quarter at Amazon, even as it acknowledged that the surge in demand forced it to prioritize essential items such as household staples and "dampened demand" for non-essential products. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Chancellor drops 20% levy on online news subscriptions and books as industry strugglesAmazon has confirmed it will cut the price of its Kindle ebooks from Friday, after the government announced it would bring forward plans to stop charging VAT on online publications because of the pandemic.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-04-30 18:11:42 UTC ]
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Even if social distancing has helped you to achieve the nigh impossible task of watching your entire Netflix queue, there’s still a trove of media to consume. Sonos has teamed up with OverDrive -- makers of the audiobook lending app Libby -- to let c... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2020-04-30 14:37:36 UTC ]
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'Our desk spaces are evolving their own personalities,' as the publishing house built by a tech and retail giant adapts to home-officing. The post Coronavirus Worklife: Amazon Publishing ‘At Home’ in Germany, the UK, and the States appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-30 01:41:14 UTC ]
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Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (Quercus) has continued to top the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, notching up a third week in the number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 13:51:51 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association (BA) has branded Amazon's £250,000 donation to a booksellers hardship fund an “ill-judged attempt to mitigate a decades-long campaign to undermine the bookselling sector”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-24 16:27:46 UTC ]
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Fundraiser for retailers facing hardship during the coronavirus pandemic reveals that benefactor is internet giant widely blamed for trade’s declineAmazon, the internet retail giant vilified for years as public enemy No 1 to booksellers, has been revealed as the surprise mystery benefactor that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-04-23 11:37:33 UTC ]
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Amazon has been revealed as the mystery donor which pledged £250,000 to a fundraising drive to help booksellers impacted by the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 04:37:57 UTC ]
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Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (Quercus) has once again topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction ranking, as Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador), two years on from publication, claimed the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 16:14:26 UTC ]
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Amazon’s focus on essential items due to the coronavirus crisis has led to significant sales losses for several religion publishers, and many houses are looking to alternate sales channels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of the most exciting fiction and memoir is being done in the form of graphic novels. Here are some of the very best. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2020-04-20 11:08:17 UTC ]
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama will be reading children's books in a weekly series of videos for Penguin Random House and PBS Kids through May 11. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-17 20:08:16 UTC ]
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Digital publisher develops commercial break that avoids pandemic stories, as industry struggles with skittish advertisers. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-04-17 17:36:26 UTC ]
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From Turkey, South Africa, Sweden, China, Germany, Israel, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina, this year's free books from Amazon Crossing arrive amid frontier-defying contagion. The post Amazon Crossing Rolls Out Its 2020 Free World Book Day Translations appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-17 03:09:44 UTC ]
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Amazon is to close six of its warehouses in France, after a court ruling stopped the delivery of non-essential items during the pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 21:29:21 UTC ]
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Some publishers already reeling from lost revenue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are about to take another hit. Amazon says it will soon drastically reduce the commission rates of its affiliate marketing program—the cut of sales it rewards to participating websites that drive customers to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-15 01:15:20 UTC ]
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Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (Quercus) has risen a level to top the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, gazumping David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins Children's) for the number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-14 22:54:06 UTC ]
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