$120,000 fundraiser for UK booksellers
When Gayle Lazda from the London Review Bookshop, Picador commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna...
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Category: bookstores
As Brits treat social distancing as a game, UK’s Waterstones opts to close stores nationwide just days after Daunt asked for books to be given special status
Sometimes it can be embarrassing to be British. First we had Brexit. Then the coronavirus arrived...
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“Unprecedented demand” for books at UK’s Waterstones as consumers occupy themselves at home. Has Amazon missed an opportunity?
At first glance the call from Waterstones and Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt that books be...
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Eason acquires rival indie chain Dubray Books as Ireland’s book market remains vibrant
A $22 million cash injection into Ireland’s biggest bookstore chain Eason in 2019 has helped the...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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StreetLib launches Totem, a B2B Print On Demand facility for Italian bookstores
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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PRK UK's new centralised rights; B&N Education's poor quarter; Hachette UK's Changing the Story Day; PRH UK's Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Beijing local govt. subsidised bookstores to the tune of $14 million in 2019
100 million yuan ($14 million) is how much the Beijing municipal government spent this year to...
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Three months jail for not returning a library book. EC horror comics. Canada’s only poetry book store. China’s biggest book store
Thanks to Instagram, poetry has been given a new lease of life, with the beauty of poetry suddenly...
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Danish bookstore chain loses $2 million to IT problems
Arnold Busck is one of Denmark’s oldest bookstore chains, founded in Copenhagen in 1896 and...
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US bookstore sales decline 10% in August, but do the numbers reflect a drift to digital, not fewer books sold?
Preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate sales of printed books from...
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Digital books streaming service YouScribe on target for 300k subscribers by end 2019. Equals Storytel’s non-Nordic reach in first year – in Africa
When we think of digital books subscription services it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture...
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