Category: bookstores
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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Mapping the New Normal: James Daunt U-turns on ebooks. Plans to invest in Nook and restore Waterstones ebooks. Rewrites history to suit
No, I double-checked the date. It’s not April 1 and James Daunt, CEO of the UK’s Waterstone’s and...
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Mapping the New Normal: UK loses 5 Blackwell’s university bookstores to coronavirus
With 28 stores across the country, Blackwell’s competes with UK bookstore chains Waterstones...
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Mapping the new normal: As bookstores in France re-open, early euphoria gives way to plummeting book sales in week two
After a long and painful lockdown it was hardly surprising that many booklovers made a beeline for...
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Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as bookstores re-open after eight weeks lockdown and a 63% drop in sales
Canada’s book publishing trade association Booknet is warning that as bookstores open their doors...
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