Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… Read more »

The managing director of Waterstones, James Daunt, spoke yesterday to attendees at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) conference, and addressed some of the biggest questions being thrown at the national bookshop… Read more »

Amazon has added photo recognition to its mobile app, meaning that now the software can spot and search Amazon for any products within sight of your camera. It’s a dangerous… Read more »

With devices from the new tech startup Estimote already being shipped, bookstores and other retailers finally have a tool to help fight back against showrooming. Showrooming is the practice by… Read more »

It has been almost two months since a special January 30th Publishers Weekly alert went out to subscribers announcing “Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble in Dispute Over Terms.” While some… Read more »

  Hello, Amazon. Remember when you came up with that great idea for an app that would allow people to stand in a real bookstore, scan a bar code, and… Read more »

Indie booksellers have been complaining for a while now about “showrooming” — whereby shoppers go to a brick-and-mortar store to look at books they’re interested in, then buy them from… Read more »

So much for “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought …” and “Frequently Bought Together”: A fascinating dispatch in Forbes reports that less than 10% of book purchases on Amazon… Read more »

Only if you receive eucalyptus-infused hot towels and a complimentary drink on the way in, right? In a recent panel discussion with the BBC, UK HarperCollins CEO Victoria Barnsley mentioned that in… Read more »