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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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Book retailers to pay through the nose, says Felsmore

Fels told Inside Retailing's subscriber only digital weekly edition that Australian book prices...

Is the eReader Financial Model Upside Down?more

Why can't a device vendor go with more of a cell phone model, where the low price of the device is subsidized by the...

The Shame of Literary Price Warsmore

Inc.  With their new online book site, Wal-Mart announced it would...

Keith Rylatt's Groovesville USA Bookmore

It will not be available from bookstores or online book retailers. The book will be published in February 2010.

Discounting of Books Isn't Allowed in Much of Europemore

In Europe, the price war raging among America's biggest book retailers has offered new validation to an age-old...

Book Price Wars and Sustainable Ebook Publishingmore

While just about everything else these days is going up, book prices from the major book retailers are plummeting...

Pow! Comic-strip heroes fight against corruptionmore

...we couldn't get it all in a book." The £4.99 anthology will be available at Ctrl.Alt.Shift's website as well as...

Monday Mailbag: Tuesday Editionmore

...to you), solicits data from a wide range of national book retailing chains, independent stores...

Major booksellers didn't realize they were suppliers to rivalsmore

Small book retailers were buying in bulk from major online booksellers because they could really save some money.

Kid’s Christmas Cookie Decorating Partymore

...cookie decorating party tips to share from the author of a new cooking with kids book Cindy Mushet.

Fangs, Fur & Fey Contest!more

...will receive a Kindle Reader, retailing for ... 00 from one of these five book retailers: Amazon

Book Discounts Banned in Much of Europemore

In Europe, the price war raging among America's biggest book retailers has offered new validation to an age-old...

Life throws book deal at Bengals receiver Chad Ochocincomore

Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver Chad Ochocinco proved this on Tuesday when Crown publishing released his 272-page...

Author Ebook Royalties in Playmore

Most e-book retailers take a discount of approximately 50% of an e...

Scholastic Reverses its Stupid Homophobic Decisionmore

...their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because the book featured two moms...

Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for...more

Safari Books Online is an online book and video subscription service...

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...

Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishingmore

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

Some Fear Giant Book Retailers' Deep Discounts Will Hurt Storesmore

Ex Libris...?more

...idea of planned "remainders."  A "remainder" is a book that remains in stock after demand at...

WI: Some fear giant book retailers' deep discounts will hurt storesmore

Independent booksellers say a price war between retail giants - which erupted last week when Wal-Mart began offering...

Walmart and Amazon Price War - Hyper Efficiency and the Consumermore

For the giants of the book retailing industry, the economies of scale and drive for hyper...

independent booksellers fight for their existencemore

October 22, 2009 The Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association today sent the following letter to the...

Breakfast Links: October 23, 2009more

* MJS: Some fear giant book retailers' deep discounts will hurt stores

Newest e-reader "Nook" Kindle-killer?more

American book retailing giant, Barnes & Noble, has released its very own brand of e-reader, dubbed the...

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