The wrong goodbye of Barnes and Noble
Dennis Johnson
Maybe you’ve noticed that there seem to be a lot of Barnes & Noble superstores closing lately?… Read more »
Maybe you’ve noticed that there seem to be a lot of Barnes & Noble superstores closing lately?… Read more »
“It’s something the company was quite clear about”… Read more »
A recent Simba Information report (subscription required) “posits that the decrease in the number of bookstores that we saw in 2011 did not lead to a corresponding growth in ebook… 1 / Read more »
Independent “booksellers have become more entrenched about their decision” not to stock or display books published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint New Harvest—a front for books acquired and published in… Read more »
Enough already about the BEA, an event held in New York City last week where a big chunk of the book industry stood around talking about Amazon and brooding over… 5 / Read more »
It’s finally happened: a major publishing house has announced it will abandon DRM protection for its ebooks. Yesterday afternoon Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor/Forge announced in a release on Tor’s website… 6 / Read more »
It was hard to go onto the internet yesterday without having to hear about Harry Potter being a force for world change again. In case you spent the day under… 1 / Read more »
The Independent Publishers Group (IPG) and its 400-plus indie publishers from around the world took a serious blow this week in their battle against Amazon.com (see our earlier reports here… 4 / Read more »
Although numerous independent booksellers, over the last few weeks, have individually announced they would ban books published by Amazon from their stores, late yesterday the trade organization representing most of… 2 / Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s dramatic statement on Tuesday that, no matter what, it wouldn’t, under any circumstances, including beards, sell books published by Amazon, ever, come hell or high water — eh,… 13 / Read more »