B&N was the bookseller whose massive expansion into superstores in the '80s and '90s was seen as the catalyst for the closure of numerous independent ...
Washington City Paper | Lydia DePillis | Posted 05.25.2011
Borders Books and Music is in trouble. It's not done well in the rough-and-tumble world of online bookselling, and according to the people who follow ...
blogs.publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Bookseller Ken Sanders, who owns Ken Sanders Rare Books, posted a call to action on his Web site earlier this week alerting customers to a Utah state...
publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Although Borders has been struggling financially for years, for the first time the book industry is openly, and in many cases actively, planning for w...
Publishing Perspectives | Posted 05.25.2011
As technology becomes an integral part of both creating and distributing content, the deals and partnerships that get the content onto different devic...
publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Publishers seemed unimpressed with Borders proposals that seek new financing and payment terms. According to sources familiar with negotiations, Borde...
The Jakarta Globe | Posted 05.25.2011
Among avid readers, the question of whether e-books would eventually replace the printed page remains a hotly debated subject. Many readers simply don...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Is Borders out of cash? Going under? In early December they announced they might make a play to buy Barnes & Noble. The end of 2010 brought a liquidit...
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011
The mistletoe has been put away, the presents unwrapped, the New Year's Champagne uncorked, and you still haven't quite finished Franzen's Freedom. Bu...
nytimes.com | DAN LEVIN | Posted 05.25.2011
The novel "The Persian Boy," by Mary Renault, has it all. In the West, the book, which is filled with scenes of pederasty and homosexual passion, rais...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Port Mortuary" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult)...
sethgodin.typepad.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Working with a great team at Amazon, I'm launching a new publishing venture called The Domino Project. I think it fundamentally changes many of the ru...
Dispatch | Posted 05.25.2011
After years of buying books at Narnia Children's Books in Richmond's Museum District, best friends Jill Stefanovich and Jenesse Evertson have bought t...
My Journal Courier | GREG OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011
Literati will soon have a reason to visit the Jacksonville square, thanks to a Jacksonville couple's plans to open a bookstore. Jim and Sally Nurss w...
Lonely Planet | Posted 05.25.2011
Bookshops are a traveller's best friend: they provide convenient shelter and diversion in bad weather, they're a reliable source of maps, notebooks, a...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc.'s shareholders have ratified a shareholder rights plan, finally making the so-called "poison pill" off...
ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011
The Joseph-Beth Group has filed for federal bankruptcy protection while the bookseller restructures with fewer stores. The Cincinnati-based company s...
csmonitor.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, however, as e-books begin to capture their share of the bookselling market, the distinction between big-box booksellers and the smaller guys ma...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Confession" by John Grisham (Doubleday)...
DailyFinance | SARAH WEINMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
A number of major book publishers reported earnings this week and, by and large, the news was good, if not spectacular. But HarperCollins, which was s...
The Guardian | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011
The eight books chosen for the inaugural Fiction Uncovered will be announced in spring 2011 and go into a Waterstone's "3 for 2" promotion. Foyles and...
Quill & Quire | Posted 05.25.2011
When the indie-dominated shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on Oct. 5, a number of booksellers expressed concern that the smaller...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)...
publishingperspectives.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Yes, Random House children's division is going to be selling the rights to Modelland, a three part YA series that "that combines the fashion world wit...
Publishing Perspectives | Posted 05.25.2011