Category: bookstores
“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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Australia’s online bookstore Booktopia debuts on AU stock exchange. Doubles revenue since arrival of Amazon, with 15% of the market
When Amazon arrived in Australia there were fears the domestic book market might be irreparably...
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UK: Bloomsbury hits 30% digital with 60% profits boost. The Bookseller, dismayed, says, “There is an upside”
“Swing that pendulum back to the 1980s immediately! We can’t have publishers...
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In France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores
“We wanted equal treatment, not a race to the bottom. It sounds like a Pyrrhic victory for the...
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As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services
Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...
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Sweden sees book sales rise by 7.4% value and 20% volume this year, led by digital subscription (+32%). Pre-Christmas, 60% of consumption is now digital
Sölve Dahlgren: “Can regular sales channels make up their losses and thereby increase book sales...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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Romania: Humanitas bookstore chain and publishing house launches mobile bookshop to reach book-disenfranchised areas
Romanian bookstore chain and publishing house Humanitas launches Humanitas Cartea pe roți (the...
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“I absolutely love Nook, and I think my predecessors had fallen out of love with it. I’m a champion of digital books and digital book retailing” – Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt
Daunt continued selling epub ebooks in the Waterstone’s ebook store while simultaneously inviting...
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Amazon Sweden launch now imminent, but what part will books play?
Amazon has been talking with publishers in Sweden, but the absence of any serious rumours, let...
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Quote Unquote: “There were significant benefits to meeting virtually” – American Booksellers Association
When any event excludes more than it can accommodate then much more is lost than just chance...
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Online book and ebook store Al Manhal launches in UAE with 90,000 titles. “The world’s largest Arabic online bookstore”
There’s room for confusion with the launch of a new online bookstore in the UAE, which claims to...
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