Tomorrow Is National Bookstore Day 11/06/2009
More than 140 independent bookstores around the country have signed up to participate in National Bookstore Day, a PW-sponsored initiative to get customers into bookstores tomorrow.
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Borders Offers “In-Stock Guarantee” 11/03/2009
Borders has started a new holiday program under which it will ship for free any item listed on Borders.com that is not in-stock in a store where a customer is shopping.
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Barnes & Noble Touts Three-Prong Approach by Jim Milliot - 11/02/2009
Try as it might, Barnes & Noble has had a hard time convincing investors and analysts that, as reading moves more and more to e-books, there is a place for retailers that derive most their revenue—and profits—from the sale of print books. In a 90-minute presentation October 27, B&N's management team did its best to persuade analysts that the company's dominant position in th...
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Soapbox: Now More Than Ever by Carl Lennertz - 11/02/2009
There's been some talk recently about the future of the fall regional association trade shows: GLiBA, MBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, NEIBA, NCIBA, PNBA, SCIBA and SIBA. Every August and September, I curse these shows.
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Wal-Mart, Amazon Limiting Discounted Purchases 10/30/2009
The big box retailers are limiting the number of copies customers can buy of their deep discounted titles. Some booksellers had hoped to buy large quantities of the books to benefit from the price war.
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Phaidon Opens Temporary Store in Manhattan By Lynn Andriani - 10/28/2009
Phaidon Press is opening a “pop-up” store in Soho, New York City, next week. The 2,500-square-foot store, at 100 Wooster Street, will be open from November 2 through January 2010. Store hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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