It has been a bumpy year for Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book chain, with 720 stores. Sales and store traffic have suffered as the book business has shifted online; Amazon has held its early lead in the e-reader war; and early this month, Barnes & Noble put itself up for sale and is now [...]
The $99 price point on e-readers has finally, officially been reached! Beware the crowds on the street rushing to Borders to adopt the habit of digital reading.
The Borders group reduced the price of the two e-readers it sells–the Kobo and Aluratek e-readers–to $129 and $99 respectively. No doubt Borders hopes to make up for [...]
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NYT — Amazon.com introduces two new versions of the Kindle eReader today, one for $139, the lowest price yet for the device.
Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an eReader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the eCommerce [...]
PW: Bookstore sales fell for the second consecutive month in May, with revenue in the month down 2.6%, to $1.09 billion, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Bookstore sales for the first five months of 2010 were down slightly, falling 0.4%, to $6.33 billion. Bookstore sales, faced with easy comparisons to a soft [...]
Morgan James and Newswire to Launch Book Publishing Initiative
HOUSTON, March 22, 2010 (Newswire) — Newswire.net, a subsidiary of Extensions, Inc. (OTC: EXTI) announced today that it has launched its book publishing initiative, (Newswire Publishing) with Morgan James Publishing.
Morgan James Publishing, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, is recognized by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious businesses [...]