Category: bookstores
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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Simon & Schuster Q1 revenue up 4%, driven by 16% growth in ebook and audiobook sales. Audio defies the no-commuters-equals-no-audiobook-sales narrative
As part of ViacomCBS the Simon & Schuster management, like HarperCollins, understands the...
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Mapping the new normal: USA’s Books-A-Million re-opens bookstores with curbside pick-up, staff in PPE, telephone experts, and cosmetic cases in beautiful floral prints
America’s second-largest bookstore chain, Books-A-Million, is readying for Mother’s...
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Quote Unquote: Reasons to be wide and digital
Publishers who have broad publishing programmes and sell across a range of retailers, including...
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“Unless complete crap, every book is educational.” South Africa book stores challenge lockdown easing restrictions
Like for many countries around the world, it’s time for the Covid-19 induced lockdown in South...
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Bookstore re-openings promise to be tortuous as these examples from Germany and USA show
In various parts of the world lockdown is slowly being eased, and as a low-risk business,...
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Publishers Weekly launches #BooksAreEssential social media campaign to support the industry. But essential to who?
In times of crisis we often have to make difficult choices, redefine our priorities, and make...
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Iran begins to tentatively re-open its bookstores, but will consumers be ready to visit?
China, Italy, Denmark, Germany and now Iran are among the countries tentatively allowing...
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“Ebooks are the heroes of the crisis. Libraries have halted the purchase of physical books and are switching all purchasing to digital” – BISG report on Covid-19’s impact on publishing
Publishers Weekly’s report on the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) video chat (April 9) about the...
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Publishers globally need to understand the new normal now evolving, and to develop post-pandemic “go wide” strategies that may at first glance seem counter-intuitive
It is estimated at least 50,000 readers in Spain have transitioned to digital reading – ebooks and...
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