PHOTOS: Is This The World's Most Elegant Bookstore?
Rizzoli has just opened a stunningly beautiful new store inside luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. Positioned on the ninth floor, ...
Rizzoli has just opened a stunningly beautiful new store inside luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. Positioned on the ninth floor, ...
Posted 12.22.2011
Britain's largest bookstore chain has apologized for promoting Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) as "the perfect present" for Christmas, ...
Posted 12.21.2011
Don’t tell Aurora Anaya-Cerda small bookshops are dying. Her mission: an independent Latino bookstore in the heart of East Harlem. “It’s a pr...
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 11.29.2011
I've often said that New York is the retail capital of the world, and that no international shop or designer is truly global without a location here. But we also have a number of shops that are ONLY here.
Rachael Berkey | Posted 10.31.2011
At least once a month, I get email from a friend asking for a recommendation. The friend in question has finished a book and cannot decide on what to read next. They've come to me for inspiration.
Posted 10.17.2011
The Daily Show last night featured a piece on the decline of the bookstore. Author and comedian John Hodgman asked Jon Stewart, "Did you know books us...
Tom Alderman | Posted 10.03.2011
For book lovers, nothing is quite so disheartening as seeing our local Borders or Barnes & Noble with a "For Lease" sign on the door. It's the indigestible realization that an increasing number of books now require a battery to read.
Publishing Perspectives | Posted 07.19.2011
LONDON: Troubled UK chain Waterstone’s is pinning its hopes on the aNobii app which it officially launches next month....
BusinessWeek | Posted 06.22.2011
Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it has launched its Kindle e-book store in Germany, bolstering a catalog of German-language books that it had alrea...
GalleyCat | Jason Boog on April 15, 2011 3:54 PM | Posted 06.15.2011
What if a bookstore only stocked one book? To celebrate the launch of his new book about the Phoenix Mars mission, author Andrew Kessler constructe...
Fortune Tech | ScottWoolley | Posted 06.13.2011
In the late 1990s, the book industry was upended by the rise of the superstore. With big footprints in exurban shopping centers, Barnes & Noble (BKS) ...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Twitter hashtag #bookstorebingo has been yielding hilarious results lately. Bookstore owners and employees tweeted some of the funniest things the...
nytimes.com | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Now that a judge has curtailed Google’s ambitions to create a giant digital bookstore and library, the company is left with few ap...
Toby Barlow | Posted 05.25.2011
Just because headquarters can't figure out how to make your location viable does not mean you can't. You've been sitting behind the cash register for years now saying, "If it was up to me..." So, do it!
Publishing Perspectives | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
With Borders Books in trouble but Barnes and Noble doing well, and with indie bookstores getting so much positive attention, it seems like so many wac...
Metro.co.uk | Posted 01.02.2012
The selected titles were announced yesterday and include four debut novels. Among those on the list are Trespass by Rose Tremain, The Blasphemer by...
NYC The Blog | Posted 05.25.2011
Nolita's McNally Jackson Books has a new toy named William Caxton. William, seen above, is an Espresso Book Machine 2.0 made by Soho's On Demand Books...
DailyFinance | SARAH WEINMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
For the nine-week holiday period ending Jan. 1, comparable store sales for Barnes & Noble's brick-and-mortar business was up 9.7% compared to last yea...
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 Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
For the first #WriterWednesday of the new year, amidst news of turmoil at Borders and sales records at Amazon, let's celebrate what goes on in booksto...
usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Jamie Groves has doubled his reading -- up to more than 40 books a year -- since he began downloading e-books on his Kindle. Sandra Hines calls her N...
Posted 04.10.2012