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 [...]
Author Joe Mechlinski provides a simple, yet powerful, growth strategy for small to mid-sized businesses to create fundamental organizational change. The author shares the method he has used to help hundreds of companies grow despite a tough economy and what he calls “a government in gridlock.” His step-by-step method, beginning with a reset in culture [...]
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 [...]
What Would A Wise Woman Do? provides a roadmap for today’s woman. Laura Atchison had it all—a great career, ambitious goals, and loving family—when she realized she was off course. By digging deeper, she discovered she hadn’t been asking herself the right questions—and as a result, had been living the wrong answers. By revealing her [...]
