Category: bookstores
US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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Bookstore UK, the antidote to Amazon, delivered $2.3 million to UK indie bookstores in its first year
The imminent pandemic winter may or may not be as bad as last year, but it will be bad, and...
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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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Consumers are evolving: Canada’s Indigo will be focusing all its attention on digital investment. A lesson for book retailers everywhere
(CEO Heather Reisman’s digital focus) is in stark contrast to book retailers in other...
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Thinking the unthinkable: The Bookseller’s Philip Jones finally acknowledges what TNPS has been saying for a year: high street bookshops “are facing an existential challenge”
The biggest reason bricks & mortar bookstores have to expect the continued backing of...
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With bookstores closed much of 2020, more publishers inconsiderately report record sales and a “best ever year”
Bricks & mortar bookstores face an uphill struggle this year to demonstrate to publishers that...
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“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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