Heather Reisman, CEO of Canada’s biggest books chain, Indigo Books & Music Inc, has just signed a very lucrative deal. According to this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail:… Read more »

While you can read all about the new Barnes & Noble tablet, and how it measures up against the Amazon tablet, in lots of places, to us it’s just another… 1 / Read more »

It’s been one of the more puzzling aspects of Barnes & Noble’s move into the future: Why are they giving up thousands of square feet of prime bookselling space —… 3 / Read more »

We’ve written before — and before that — that Barnes & Noble seems to us to be enacting some kind of end-game, at least as far as books are concerned.… 11 / Read more »

We’ve commented before that Barnes & Noble was actively shrinking its commitment to books — it seems dubious to us that it will even be selling print books in brick-and-mortar… Read more »

Over in Britain the Booksellers Association (BA) has been doing battle for independent bookshops this autumn. Of course, readers of MobyLives already know that bookshops are some of the most important… Read more »

We’ve written previously about the forceful new dictums being enacted by Canada’s biggest bookstore chain, Indigo. For one thing, earlier this year it announced that it would arbitrarily deduct a… 18 / Read more »

Here’s an amazing tale about Borders from Jim Mullen, syndicated newspaper columnist, in the Hanford Sentinel. You just have to read it, to believe it: I’m going to tell you… Read more »

As the dust settles on the Borders bankruptcy case and the liquidators begin to get rid of thousands of employees and even more thousands of books, what are we to… Read more »

Borders may own some stock in the ofttimes darling dark horse of the eBook world, but Kobo is very interested in separating themselves from the sinking Borders brand. That’s not… 2 / Read more »