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Reports of the Bookstore’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Aggregated Content — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:50:36 +0000

By Michael Weinstein There’s been a great deal of conjecture lately about the future of the bookstore: What will happen to the B&N stores (especially if they do plan to reduce the number of stores)? What about independent bookstores? Will Amazon crush bricks-and-mortar stores out of existence? Oh, lordy, will there even be such a [...]

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Meet Waterstones Academy, a college for booksellers

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:30:40 +0000

The Bookseller recently published what appears to be a very interesting article about a sort of bookseller’s university that Waterstones—the UK-based bookstore chain—plans to open at some point in the near-to-distant future. And I use the term “appears,” by the way, because the article in question in available only to subscribers of the website’s premium [...]

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Pay to play: Would you pay to browse for books?

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:00:56 +0000

Would you pay to browse a bookstore’s shelves? Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK & International, discussed that concept during a recent interview on BBC’s The Bottom Line with Evan Davis. “In America, certain shoe shops are charging to try on shoes. These people just go in, try them on and go and order them online,” [...]

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A girl walks into a bookstore and asks for help…

Chris Meadows — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:36:05 +0000

Found this amusing little anecdote over on Not Always Right, the site where people post their stories of hilarious encounters with rude or obnoxious customers, and chuckled for quite a while afterward. It begins innocently enough: (A customer walks into the bookstore and begins looking around.) Me: “Hello! Is there anything I can help you [...]

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Nook news: Sale, market cap, and NFC chips

Chris Meadows — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:19:42 +0000

In honor of Mother’s Day, Barnes & Noble has chopped $20 off the price of its (non-glowlit) Nook Simple Touch, which can now be had for $79, and the Nook Color, which is now $149. The sale lasts until May 12th. This deal makes the Nook cost the same as Amazon’s ad-supported Kindle, but without [...]

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Bookstore, or Retail Ecosystem? by Ted Striphas

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:52:06 +0000

I’m on the road right now, so unfortunately I don’t have time to compose a blog post of the usual length. But since I promised last week that there’d be new content here, now, I figured it would be worth sharing a few thoughts about something that’s been on my mind lately. I’m talking about [...]

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The 20 most beautiful bookstores in the world

Paul Biba — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:43:10 +0000

This is quite a collection, as compiled by Flavorwire. Check it out: With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy [...]

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Maine bookstore chain Mr. Paperback closing its doors

Chris Meadows — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:12:17 +0000

Another bookstore chain is biting the dust—this one a small regional chain with ten locations in Maine. Mr. Paperback has been around for over 50 years, but is closing its doors by the end of April. The store’s sister company, a magazine and newspaper distributor called Magazines Inc., is being bought out. Mr. Paperback’s 80 [...]

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Amazon soon to open boutique store in Seattle, say anonymous sources

Chris Meadows — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:58:23 +0000

Remember that Amazon retail store rumor from a few days ago? Well, Good E-Reader has heard more from anonymous “Amazon sources close to the situation.” According to their sources, Amazon is going to roll out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months to test the waters and see if a chain of [...]

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Billy Ray Cyrus to publish memoirs with Amazon

Chris Meadows — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:25 +0000

Don’t tell my Nook, my achey breaky Nook… Billy Ray Cyrus, singer of a particularly overplayed country song and father of Miley “Hannah Montana” Cyrus, has landed a book deal with Amazon’s publishing arm for his memoirs, GalleyCat reports. Publication date is expected to be spring 2013 in both hardcover and e-book editions. The deal [...]

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Is There Hope for Barnes & Noble?

Rich Adin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:21:53 +0000

As readers of my columns know, Amazon is not my favorite bookseller. It is not because Amazon doesn’t offer value or quality service; it is because I fear Amazon’s attempts to monopolize the book marketplace vertically, that is, everything from acquiring and publishing to selling exclusively. Right now consumers, especially ebookers, are happy with everything [...]

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Lessons learned from opening a bookstore

Chris Meadows — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:32:36 +0000

On Open Salon, blogger jlsalthre posts a wry list of 25 things she learned from opening a bookstore. While most of them are observations about what kinds of people buy what kinds of print books, there are a few that show a rather pointed awareness of the electronic medium and the effects it is having: [...]

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Amazon doesn’t care about your local bookstore, says Tim Carmody

Paul Biba — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:28:21 +0000

Here’s the beginning of a thoughtful article by Tim Carmody in Wired’s Epicenter. The rest of it is well worth reading: Here are two surprising holiday shopping season success stories. They’re even more surprising because they seem to directly contradict each other. First, Amazon, which has historically kept its sales figures for Kindle e-readers tightly [...]

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E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores « INFOdocket

Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:17:32 +0000

From The New York Times: Facing economic gloom and competition from cheap e-readers, brick-and-mortar booksellers entered this holiday season with the humblest of expectations. But the initial weeks of Christmas shopping, a boom time for the book business, have yielded surprisingly strong sales for many bookstores, which report that they have been lifted by an [...]

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Internet book buyers still go to bookstores to make their choices

Paul Biba — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:14:33 +0000

Good article today in Melville House’s Moby LIves blog. Here’s part of it: The other half of my contention is that one reason it’s gotten this way is that reporting on the industry has tended to follow trends at the cost of reporting reality. Thus, as I pointed out in a MobyLives post a few months [...]

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