Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Can Waterstones’ rebound in the U.K. be a model for chain bookstores in the U.S.? Which is more sentimental in…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Does the publishing industry have what it takes to keep up with start-ups when it comes to promoting innovative business…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Digital Publishing, ebook, literary agents, mobile, Paper Lantern Lit, readmill, Small Demons, startups, venture capital, Waterstones
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Amazon‘s drone delivery service is big news this week, but some factors will keep it from happening for a…Continue Reading
This month, there seemed to be a good amount of back-and-forth between ereader companies with new products or services announced just as another company gains some footing. The competition in international markets continues. Waterstones, though it recently announced it would be selling Kindles this year in its stores, admitted that if other devices had the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alexis Santos, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Charlotte Williams, CNET, Cool Mom Tech, Endgadget, Fire, iPad, John P. Mello Jr., Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Nook Snaps, PCWorld, Rakuten, Steven Musil, The Bookseller, Wall Street Journal, Waterstones
Nick Webb, MD Europe for Rightscenter.com, serves up an author’s-eye view of Frankfurt in this dispatch, which will appear in a longer article in the journal of the Society of Authors. If you’re one of those authors who secretly feels low after nipping into Waterstones and seeing the sheer variety of books jostling for shelf…Continue Reading
Reports from Regional Trade Shows Synchronicity was the unofficial theme for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual fall conference, which returned to Portland on Sept. 15 – 17 after a three-year hiatus. At the show’s “Celebration of Authors,” for example, the self-deprecating Elwood Reid recounted his strange long trip from life as a “big dumb…Continue Reading
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Tagged ABA, B&N, Bookland of Maine, Booksense, Borders, Carole Horne, David Godine, Doubleday, Elwood Reid, Graphic Arts, Harvard Book Store, Jim Harris, Karl Pohrt, Lauriat's, Learningsmith, Marc Seagar, Marcella Smith, Midnight Sun, New England Booksellers Association, Noel Pasco, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Rusty Drugan, Saul Gilman, Seamus Heaney, The Shaman Drum, Waterstones