Subtlety is out. Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 25th cover shows a book engulfed in flames. The book’s title? “Amazon Wants to Burn the Book Business.” A towering pile of books dominates the front page of Sunday’s NYT Business Section. The pile starts well below the fold (print edition), breaks through the section header at the top [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a ”mini-report” on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that found the number of Americans owning tablets and e-readers nearly doubled over the holidays. The bottom line numbers represent phenomenal growth in consumer device adoption: from mid-December 2011 to early January 2012, the number of Americans owning a tablet computer rose to 19% from [...]
Powell’s Books, one of the country’s largest and most successful bookstores, will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore. “We are excited to offer this service to our customers, expanding our vast inventory at the City of Books location from one million volumes [...]
Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures – NYTimes.com. Facing economic gloom and competition from cheap e-readers, brick-and-mortar booksellers entered this holiday season with the humblest of expectations. But the initial weeks of Christmas shopping, a boom time for the book business, have yielded surprisingly strong sales for many bookstores, which report [...]
Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson. Jay Conrad Levinson is the father of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing”. Guerrilla Marketing has swiftly blossomed into a series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for individuals to spend less, get more, and [...]
Digital Book World presents a roundup of some of the most interesting news, commentary, and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world. Is the Borders Bankruptcy Saga Finally Going to End? Sunday was the deadline for potential bidders to line up for the Borders bookstore chain, [...]