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Morning Links: Can indie bookstores be saved?

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:15:41 +0000

Canada’s Digital Divide Likely to Widen Due to Access and Adoption Failures (Michael Geist) Coursera Begins to Make Money (Inside Higher Ed) Can Indie Bookstores be Saved? (Digital Book World) B&N Upgrades Pubit! to Nook Press (Publisher’s Weekly) Kindle Daily Deals: Sucker’s Portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut (and 3 others)

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Looking for a Simon & Schuster title? Barnes & Noble might not be your best bet.

Aggregated Content — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:49:04 +0000

Book retailer Barnes & Noble has reportedly reduced the amount of titles it stocks by Simon & Schuster authors and lowered the number of S&S books on display as it continues to be embroiled in a debate with the publisher. Neither the chain nor Simon & Schuster would specify exactly what is being negotiated, but [...]

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Morning Links: Could e-books save newspapers?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:31:30 +0000

Ebooks: Newspapers should capitalize on their archives (The Guardian) Bookstore browsing vital for publishing, research finds (The Bookseller) Are African writers and readers ready for the e-book revolution? (The Creative Penn) Short Books + Fast Books (and Diet) = Indie Success (Publishing Perspectives) Kindle Daily Deals: Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (and 3 others)

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Meet WebBytez, a new method of e-book discovery

Juli Monroe — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:45:59 +0000

E-book discovery by readers has been much in the news lately, and it’s definitely an issue for authors, especially those who are self-published. While readers continue to find their next great book in online stores, some still browse brick and mortar bookstores. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could find and buy e-books in a [...]

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Another One Bites the Dust: Landmark Toronto bookstore to close April 1

Joanna Cabot — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:29:12 +0000

Bittersweet news came out this weekend that Nicholas Hoare, a landmark Toronto bookstore, is set to close April 1, 2013. The store is known for its eclectic stock and elegant interior, and has been in operation in three different cities, at various junctures, since 1971. The shocker? This article on the closure says there isn’t [...]

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Pay to Browse: Why it will never work for bookstores

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000

TeleRead posted earlier about an idea that was floated by Victoria Barnsley, a HarperCollins CEO, during a recent NPR interview: the idea of charging people for the privilege of browsing in bookstores. The idea was that they’d pay to browse, and then go home and order online from the vendor of their choosing. The analogy [...]

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VIDEO: Can Print and E-Books Coexist?

Aggregated Content — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:46:53 +0000

‘Tis the season for reading — both print and e-books. But can the two really coexist? For this video report, I checked in with three bookstores in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., and asked store managers and customers whether they preferred print or e-books. Some of their answers were expected, such as people’s love [...]

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E-Books means never having to say “excuse me”

Jon Jermey — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:42:29 +0000

It’s the week before Christmas, and the post office and local stores are full of people I’ve never seen before. Where do they shop the rest of the year, these folk? Do they live in suspended animation till December? I can only surmise that the warmer weather here in Oz wakes them up, like locusts, [...]

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The lessons of Fifty Shades for bookstores, publishers, and media

Chris Meadows — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:46:46 +0000

The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey continues, and people keep trying to make sense of it. The Bookseller’s blog had a couple of interesting posts lately on the phenomenon. Scott Pack writes of how the book came from right out of nowhere, completely overturning established expectations, and now publishers and bookstores are scrambling to [...]

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An e-book lover yearns for paper books…but does not buy any

Chris Meadows — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:59:21 +0000

Nick Bilton has a piece in the New York Times in which he tells of how he wandered into an old bookshop in New York and stared (and smelled) nostalgically at the printed pages all around. As an avowed e-reader now, he nonetheless misses the experience of shopping in bookstores. For those of us who [...]

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Waterstones Kindle deal prompts concern among UK publishers, booksellers

Chris Meadows — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:15:00 +0000

It came as a surprise a couple of months ago when pre-eminent UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced it would be entering a partnership with Amazon to sell Kindles. Now that the shock has worn off, Publishing Perspectives reports, a number of UK publishers and bookstores are speaking out (mostly anonymously on the publishers’ part, of [...]

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Harvard Book Store offers proof independent bookstores can survive digital age

Chris Meadows — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Can bookstores survive in an e-book world? Leigh Beadon of Techdirt thinks they can, if they play to their strengths. Beadon points out that when people talk nostalgically about bookstores, they are usually referring to their local independent stores, not the soulless big box chains. Where the big box chains have been outcompeted by Amazon [...]

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Waterstones director warns library e-book lending could threaten bookstores

Chris Meadows — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:04:48 +0000

The Bookseller has a brief report on a London roundtable in which some publishers and booksellers sounded a warning about library e-book lending. Waterstones m.d. James Daunt said that library e-lending could be disruptive to bricks-and-mortar booksellers. “If you can download a book for free and read it, why would you want to own it?” [...]

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Mike Shatzkin discusses the motives of Amazon

Chris Meadows — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:50:01 +0000

Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin’s latest column is a look at the motives behind Amazon’s competitive behavior, and how it might end legacy publishing. Perhaps the most interesting thing here is that Shatzkin spends the first half of the post giving the devil his due, explaining why Amazon has been looking so good to so many [...]

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Mike Shatzkin warns against letting bookstores fade away

Chris Meadows — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:15:00 +0000

What will the publishing industry look like if all physical bookstores go the way of Borders? Publishing-industry observer Mike Shatzkin doesn’t know, but he thinks publishers shouldn’t want to find out for as long as possible. Some publishers report that the growth rate of e-book sales seems to be tapering off, However, other publishers report [...]

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