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Borders Signs Deal with Wi Fi Advertising Company

Borders has reached an agreement with JiWire, a location-based mobile media company with an advertising platform, to enable companies to run ads across Borders’ Wi Fi network. According to JiWire, any time a user connects to Wi Fi in any Borders’ locations “they will see location-targeted messages and offers from leading national brands.” Under terms [...]

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Book Bloggers You Should Know

PW: Newspapers may be continuing to cut their book coverage, but the Internet is home to an ever-expanding hive of blogs about books. Some 250 book bloggers attended the first-ever Book Blogger Convention in May, an event held at Manhattan’s Javits Center the day after BEA ended. Sponsorships from major New York houses and lots of [...]

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Authors Guild Weighs In on Odyssey Editions, Warns Publishers to Raise E-book Royalties

PW: The Authors Guild has now weighed in on the intense debate that flared up last week over the Wylie Agency’s entry into e-book publishing, Odyssey Editions. In a memo posted today on its site, the Guild called the situation “the most important development in electronic publishing since Apple entered the market,” both celebrating the agency [...]

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Media Sales Up at Amazon

Revenue in Amazon’s North America media segment, which includes books and eBooks, rose 15% in the second quarter to $1.32 billion. Sales in the electronic and general merchandise segment rose 76% to $2.09 billion. The segment includes Kindle and the newly acquired shoe online Web site Zappos. Much of Amazon’s press release emphasized the success [...]

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Sony Reader Sales Triple; iPad Sales Top 3 Million

Kindle has reached its tipping point, and now the Sony Reader has, too. Earlier this year the 10 millionth book was downloaded from the Sony Reader Store, Phil Lubell, v-p of digital reading at Sony Electronics said today. “We are well on our way to doubling this number by year’s end,” he said. Since launching its [...]

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Amazon’s eBook Sales Tripled in First Half of 2010

In Amazon’s ongoing effort to show how popular the Kindle and e-books are without giving away real numbers the company has released a batch of new statistics about the two products ahead of its second quarter earnings report set for Thursday. According to the company, sales of the e-reader  “accelerated each month in the second [...]

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‘Los Angeles Review of Books’ to Launch This Fall

The Los Angeles Review of Books, an online periodical that will include multiplatform book reviews, author profiles, Skype interviews, and readings as well as critical essays on classic authors will launch in the fall under the direction of Tom Lutz, professor and chair of the creative writing department at the University of California at Riverside.Lutz, [...]

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E-book Sales Rose 167% in May

PW: After sales growth slowed slightly in April, to 127%, e-book sales rose 162.8% in May, to $29.3 million, at the 13 publishers that report results to AAP’s monthly sales report. Sales for the first five months of the year increased 207.4%, to $148.3 million. In some other trade segments, adult hardcover sales jumped 43.2%, [...]

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May Bookstore Sales Fell 2.6%

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 [...]

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‘L.A. Times’ Names Thurber New Book Review Editor

PW: The Los Angeles Times has named Jon Thurber as its new book review editor. Thurber will take over from David Ulin, who ran the section for five years and is now a book critic for the paper. Thurber will oversee a team of editors and writers who will produce reviews, features, and trend pieces for [...]

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Joining with Kobo, Borders Launches its E-Bookstore Today

PW: Today’s the day. Citing a goal to claim 17% of the e-book market by next summer, the Borders Group, in conjunction with e-book retailer Kobo, is launching its own e-bookstore today, offering more than a 1 million free and for-pay titles along with a selection of digital reading devices.
The Borders e-bookstore will offer e-books in [...]

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Sony Quietly Lowers E-Reader Prices

PW: Despite a Sony spokesperson’s claim a week ago that there would be no further price announcements, Sony quietly dropped the prices on all three of its e-reading devices over the July 4 weekend. The wi-fi enabled Daily Edition drops from $349 to $299; the Touch Edition drops from $199 to $169; and the Pocket Edition, formerly [...]

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David Hancock to present at IBPA’s Publishing University

David Hancock to present at IBPA’s Publishing University on May 24-25—the only educational conference created BY publishers FOR publishers

David Hancock, Founder of Morgan James, will be one of the industry experts slated to appear at IBPA’s Publishing University, now in its third decade of offering the best in publishing education. Speaking in the session [...]

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Morgan James Weathers Tough Times

As predicted by Publisher’s Weekly (Against All Odds, March 2, 2009), Morgan James Publishing is thriving in these tough times. Morgan James reports a 52% increase in overall books sales through retail channels for year end 2009 over 2008 and a 12% increase in titles released during the same period.
Morgan James founder David Hancock touted [...]

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Against All Odds

Against All Odds

Despite brutal economic conditions, several publishers managed to find ways to grow both their sales and profits in 2008. How did they do it? They are not afraid to be frugal—forgoing advances in favor of offering higher royalties, for example; teaching authors how to self-promote, as Morgan James does. These 11 presses have adopted a [...]