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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Category: bookstores
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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Audible UK doubles profit as audiobook sales slow in 2018. But claims the ebook bubble has burst is just wishful thinking from the UK Booksellers Association
After a 47% increase in sales in 2017, Amazon-owned Audible UK saw a rise in sales of only 38% in...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #3 is now available
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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De Marque acquires Feedbook assets including the Feedbook digital books catalogue for $0.25 million, taking De Marque to 1.4 million titles
Paying just 230,000 euros (US$ 254,000) for the assets of the collapsed ebook store Feedbooks, the...
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Start The Day Global with a Muslim superhero; Trinidad & Tobago’s Carifesta; The Philippines Comic Con; and Barnes & Noble’s reputation
Marvel has confirmed a Muslim superhero named Ms Marvel – Pakistani-American teenager Kamala...
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Publishing breathes a collective sigh of relief at Barnes & Noble’s eleventh hour reprieve, but who will buy Nook?
You might be forgiven for thinking Barnes & Noble was such a train wreck that you couldn’t pay...
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Nigeria’s booksellers promise vibrant trade, but casting social media as the enemy is not the way to make that happen
Nigeria’s Booksellers Association (BAN) has fresh blood after recent AGM elections, and BAN’s new...
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Middle East online bookstore Jamalon raises $10m in funding for expansion as Amazon remains ambivalent about the $1.7 bn MENA book market
Little known outside the Middle East, Jamalon is the Arab world’s largest online bookstore,...
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Norwegian online bookstore wins Finland’s Dragon’s Den variation Polar Bear Pitching with an icy proposition
Most people reading this will know of the TV series Dragon’s Den, or Shark Tank, or any of thirty...
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