Following last month’s Senate vote of 75-24 to attach the Marketplace Fairness Act amendmentto the FY 2014 Budget Resolution, the Senate is continuing to push forward with online sales tax legislation. Last night the Senate voted 74-20 to bring the Marketplace Fairness Act to the floor for debate. “Today’s vote is yet another clear signal that [...]
The latest edition of BISG’s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey shows that for the first time multi-function tablets have surpassed dedicated e-readers as the device of choice among consumers who read e-books. Results from the first installment in Volume Four of the survey show 44% of e-book readers prefer a tablet, up from 37% [...]
Amazon has acquired Goodreads.com, a Web site featuring user-generated reviews of books. The purchase comes amid mounting rumors that Goodreads, which CEO Otis Chandler launched in 2007, might start selling books directly from its site. Goodreads, which is one of the most popular among a raft of sites created as a book recommendation engine–members are [...]
PHOENIX, March, 22nd 2013, Morgan James Publishing has been selected for the 2012 Best of Business Award by the Small Business Community. Being in business sets people apart from most ordinary people and the Small Business Community is dedicated to helping others understand that running a business is an obtainable goal and that everyone should [...]
Barnes & Noble Announces NOOK® HD+ Special Limited Time Offer: Purchase the Critically Acclaimed NOOK HD+ and Get a FREE NOOK Simple Touch™ Everything That Customers Want in a Full HD Tablet Plus a FREE NOOK Simple Touch E Ink® Reader, a $79 Value NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: [...]
With comparable store sales of books down 1.3% in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2013—after falling 4.8% in 2011– Hastings Entertainment said it is cutting back the space devoted to books, music and rental as it rolls out new products in an expanded electronics department and adds to its trends section. The bigger electronics [...]
With sales in its Nook segment falling 26% in the third quarter ended January 31 and an EBITDA loss that increased to $190.4 million from $82.8 million, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said the company is taking “significant actions to begin to right size our cost structure in the Nook segment” and will also [...]
A late year rally was not enough to keep bookstore sales from falling again in 2012, but the 0.5% decline was the smallest in years. According to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales for 2012 were $15.21 billion, down from $15.28 billion in 2011. For December, bookstore sales increased 2,9% over December [...]
Barnes & Noble has reacted to an article in the Wall Street Journal that quotes B&N retail group CEO Mitchell Klipper as saying the bookstore chain will have 450 to 500 stores in 10 years by stressing that the company’s management “is fully committed to the retail concept for the long term.” A spokesperson noted that B&N [...]
Despite an economic backdrop filled with talk of a fiscal cliff and no single hot holiday title like last year’s Steve Jobs biography, independent booksellers who took part in PW Daily’s Christmas 2012 survey were surprisingly upbeat. “We beat last year and last year was a stellar year. We are very happy,” said Dana Brigham, manager [...]
Amazon and Google are now selling e-books in Brazil, both companies announced Thursday morning. More than 1.4 million Amazon Kindle ebooks — 13,000 of which are available in Portuguese — are now on sale at amazon.com.br. Readers will be able to read books via Amazon’s apps for iPhones, iPads, and Android phones and tablets, also released Wednesday. Amazon will [...]
For many users, the iPad mini will be the tablet device they’ve been wanting all along: a full-featured tablet (meaning more than a content buying and viewing device like the Kindle Fire HD, but also a content creation device) in a very small package. The iPad mini is really light–half as heavy as the full-size iPad, [...]
In a major ruling, Federal judge Harold Baer this week tossed the Authors Guild case against the HathiTrust. In granting the HathiTrust’s motion for summary judgment, Baer ruled that the scan program was a clear fair use under the copyright law, and in the process dealt a potentially fatal blow to the Authors Guild’s other [...]
German e-bookseller txtr will shake up the e-book market later this year when it releases an e-reader that it says is smaller, lighter and cheaper than any currently on the market. Dubbed the “txtr beagle,” the e-reader is 5 millimeters thick (on its thin side, 14 millimeters thick where the battery goes in) with a [...]
