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BOOK RETAILING

The landscape of book retailing is shifting radically -- and some even say that books are an endangered species. Are independent bookstores going the way of the Dodo bird? Can even megachains like Barnes & Noble withstand the advantages of online booksellers?

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Publishing Point Perspectives interview of Jonathan Nowell, President,...more

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Is the eReader Financial Model Upside Down?more

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Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishingmore

A core organizing principle the publishing landscape is that it is now “emergent” (arising out of a multiplicity of...

HP BookPrep delivers access to nearly 500,000 out-of-print library boo...more

HP BookPrep is a cloud computing service that enables on-demand printing of books and brings new life to the...

Amazon Blasts To New All-Time High Of $700 A Share! (AMZN)more

When splits are accounted for, that is.

Booksellers Association Challenges Retailers’ Price Planmore

The American Booksellers Association, which represents independently owned bookstores, has sent a letter to the Justice...

Content is No Longer King (Part 2)more

In an earlier blog entry on content, readers provided a number of interesting comments. If you haven't already read...

Tavis Smiley . Tamika Thompson . E-readers? Feh.more

I admit it. I buy music from an online store. I read the newspaper online. I read magazines online. I listen to the...

Holiday Book Prices Plunge, as Wal-Mart and Amazon Scufflemore

Wal-Mart and Amazon are in a price war over sales of hardcover editions of some of the coming holiday season’s biggest...

Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lendingmore

Many library patrons can now check out ebooks and audiobooks and download them while on their computer at home--for...

Can't We All Just Get Along?more

Editing, graphic design, marketing, and author royalties make up about 77% of the cost of a book so an ebook would have...

The Daily Beast Seeks to Speed Up the Publishing Process for Booksmore

Having ramped up her metabolism from magazines to online journalism with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown now wants to speed...

Will the Kindle kill the book biz? Not likelymore

Breaking the DRM of a print book means spending hours with a scanner. This is a price few are probably willing to pay.

a clean well-lighted place for booksmore

If we accept that social interaction is paramount for success in publishing, then it's important to ask "what is...

German Book Publishers Cool to eBook Marketmore

In what seems to me be a short-sighted move, German book publishers have tried to stem the growth of the eBook market.

Sony Opens Up eBook Platform to Self Publishersmore

Sony announced a partnership with Author Solutions which will allow books by self-published authors to be uploaded to...

Novice Authors Must Promote Themselves, Since Publishers Won'tmore

Book publishers actively market and promote big name authors, but for thousands of writers it's a...

An Autopsy of the Book Businessmore

Publishing legend Jason Epstein says the only way to save the book industry is to get rid of all the books.

A copyright black hole swallows our culturemore

A copyright black hole swallows our culture By James Boyle Published: September 6 2009 20:02 | Last updated: September...

Google Developing Micropayments And Subscription System To Save Newspa...more

Google is developing an online subscription and micropayment system that will enable online content providers to more...

Google on future of book publishingmore

Googld to host content, provide through stores. Google as book distributor a la Ingram?

Top Copyright Official Assails Google Book Settlementmore

In response to opposition, Google has offered to let other retailers sell access to the out-of-print books that it...

Hachette chief hits out at e-booksmore

The pressure from Google’s digital library project and Amazon’s electronic books is forcing publishers to consider...

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Booksellers should use technology to create and nurture community. A major source of business is the offline community...

We'll Be Back: Why scaling down is good for publishing by Douglas Rush...more

The corporate consolidation of publishing bodes well for the future of a publishing industry that operates on a scale...

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