TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » victoria barnsley http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:16:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Pay to Browse: Why it will never work for bookstores http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/ http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78903 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/feed/ 10 Pay to play: Would you pay to browse for books? http://www.teleread.com/harpercollins/pay-to-play-would-you-pay-to-browse-for-books/ http://www.teleread.com/harpercollins/pay-to-play-would-you-pay-to-browse-for-books/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:00:56 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=78842 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/harpercollins/pay-to-play-would-you-pay-to-browse-for-books/feed/ 13 HarperCollins ceo says ebooks will hurt publishers revenues http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/harpercollins-ceo-says-ebooks-will-hurt-publishers-revenues/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/harpercollins-ceo-says-ebooks-will-hurt-publishers-revenues/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 13:01:50 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=56086 HarperCollins ceo, Victoria Barnsley, says that the 7% drop in the retail value of paperback fiction this year is “almost entirely” dut to the sale of ebooks, even though the combined sale of ebooks and print books has increased. In an article in The Bookseller she says: “The signs are that consumers expect e-books to [...]

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