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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Back in May, I signed an embargo agreement on behalf of my bookstore stating that I would “ensure that [The Testaments by Margaret Atwood] is stored in a monitored and locked, secured area and not placed on the selling floor prior to the on-sale date.” The idea behind such agreements is that... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-09-06 11:00:49 UTC ]
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Amazon has apologised for the “technical error” which saw Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated The Testaments distributed to some pre-order customers almost a week ahead of the publication date, breaking a worldwide embargo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-05 14:05:02 UTC ]
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We examine why interactive ebooks have struggled to catch on among readers, considering the work that goes into them, the distraction of them, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-05 10:36:04 UTC ]
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The American Booksellers Association responded to Amazon's violation of 'The Testaments' embargo by promising to step up their efforts to persuade the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon's business practices. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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https://www.thebookseller.com/news/atwood-star-global-cinema-event-six-string-uk-tour-970551Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has been sent out to some readers a week before publication due to “retailer error”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 14:55:27 UTC ]
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A highly anticipated new book. A broken embargo. A cluster of angry booksellers. Penguin Random House has reacted to the fact that Amazon seems to have shipped copies of Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' in spite of the fact that it's on-sale-date is nearly a week away. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's UK logistics and warehouse arm tripled its corporation tax payment to £14m for 2018, the company has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 21:29:05 UTC ]
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Months ahead of release, Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light (Bluebird), the follow-up to record-breaking blockbuster Pinch of Nom, has vaulted straight into the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 19:59:46 UTC ]
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Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book Goodnight Moon was published on this day in 1947. It’s widely beloved, well-reviewed, and much parodied, and also hated intensely by a serious few. You know where this is going—I compile at least one of these one-star reviews pieces a month, but I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-03 08:50:11 UTC ]
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Libraries Connected has secured £342,000 in funding from Arts Council England to develop a new training programme supporting potential female and BAME leaders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 11:24:48 UTC ]
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James O'Brien's How to Be Right (Virgin) has claimed the Amazon Charts Most Sold: Non-Fiction number one, ending the five-week run of Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 08:18:55 UTC ]
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The creators of Jetflicks and iStreamitAll are facing federal charges for running two of the largest illegal streaming sites in the United States. A federal grand jury today charged eight people with conspiring to violate copyright law for their invo... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-08-28 00:59:00 UTC ]
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In a message sent to library customers, Tom Mercer, senior v-p of digital products for Bibliotheca (formerly 3M), called out Amazon for its role in the increasingly contentious library e-book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Major US publishers have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible in a row over a new speech-to-text feature which they say is a violation of copyright law. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-26 15:42:06 UTC ]
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In this new era of mutual assistancem a bookseller offers his advice to Amazon regarding the counterfeit books issue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-22 11:00:16 UTC ]
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Susan Lewis' One Minute Later (HarperCollins) has held the Amazon Charts Most Sold number one for Fiction for a second week, as Rosie Walsh's The Man Who Didn't Call (Mantle) leapt five places into second place. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-21 10:06:24 UTC ]
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A hot summer's debate at The New York Times around 'fake and illegitimate' online book sales. Amazon asserts a remedy may take more industry cooperation. The post David Streitfeld’s Orwellian Shopping List, and Amazon’s Retort appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-20 14:41:20 UTC ]
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The new comic book adaptation adjusts for the rise of Marvel but not the rise of Trump. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-08-15 22:06:08 UTC ]
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Toni Morrison's Beloved (Vintage Digital) has made its debut in the Amazon charts, following the announcement of the 88-year-old author's death last week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 00:52:07 UTC ]
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Scholar working on the show says the author’s estate has refused permission to depict any of the events shown in Peter Jackson’s filmsA JRR Tolkien expert working on Amazon’s forthcoming multi-series adaptation of The Lord of the Rings has claimed that the retail and streaming giant has been... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-09 15:27:18 UTC ]
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