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By David Hancock on August 30th, 2010

Morgan James August 2010 Best Sellers

Morgan James Publishing, a leading provider of books from entrepreneurs with vital information, inspiration and guidance readers need to be successful. A division of Morgan James, LLC, Morgan James Publishing, The Entrepreneurial Publisher™, is recognized by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious businesses and is reported as being the future of publishing.
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eBooks Make Readers Less Isolated – NYTimes.com
By David Hancock on August 26th, 2010

eBooks Make Readers Less Isolated – NYTimes.com

VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with its unspoken assertion that the reader does not want to be disturbed. So what about a device that occupies the evolving intersection between?
“Strangers constantly ask about it,” Michael Hughes, a communications [...]

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Canadian Sales Down in Second Quarter
By David Hancock on August 23rd, 2010

Canadian Sales Down in Second Quarter

Canadian book sales fell in the second quarter of 2010 compared to the same quarter last year, both in the number of books sold and the value of the sales, according to new figures from BookNet Canada. Overall, the market was down 4.1% in unit volume and 4.3% in sales in the quarter. The fiction [...]

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McNally Jackson Will Soon Be Printing Books While You Wait | The New York Observer
By David Hancock on August 11th, 2010

McNally Jackson Will Soon Be Printing Books While You Wait | The New York Observer

Espresso and Espresso: NYC indie bookseller McNally Jackson will be getting an Espresso Book Machine, which prints POD books while you wait, by 2011. The store also has a little coffee bar, so you can have espresso while you wait for your Espresso book. From the Observer.
McNally Jackson Will Soon Be Printing Books While You Wait [...]

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Barnes & Noble on the Block? Get Ready, Amazon | Fast Company
By David Hancock on August 04th, 2010

Barnes & Noble on the Block? Get Ready, Amazon | Fast Company

The world’s largest book retailer, Barnes & Noble, announced Tuesday that its board of directors is considering selling the company in order to increase shareholder value. As the bookseller explained today, the board has formed a team to evaluate “strategic alternatives” to make sure it’s “taking advantage of [its] compelling digital opportunities.” Putting the [...]

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By David Hancock on July 23rd, 2010

Agency Stirs a Fuss in eBook Publishing Venture

The literary agent Andrew Wylie announced on Wednesday that he had started his own publishing venture and would produce e-book editions available exclusively on Amazon.com for 20 titles, including those by Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov.
Now Random House, which had previously staked a claim for the e-book rights to most of those books, has issued a forceful [...]

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By David Hancock on July 23rd, 2010

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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By David Hancock on July 19th, 2010

Electronic reading devices are transforming the concept of a book – latimes.com

Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities.
As electronic reading devices evolve and proliferate, books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers. [...]

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By David Hancock on July 19th, 2010

New Nook 3G clears FCC

The paperwork for a new B&N Nook showed up on the FCC website on Friday. The hard data (pictures, specs, etc) were withheld, so I’ve spent the last couple days pondering what few hints that B&N gave us. Note: this isn’t the Nook Wifi; that went through the FCC last month. No, this one is [...]

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By David Hancock on July 14th, 2010

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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By David Hancock on July 14th, 2010

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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Borders Bookstore Faces Bleak Future
By David Hancock on February 01st, 2010

Borders Bookstore Faces Bleak Future

With dismal holiday sales, sagging shares, loan deadlines, layoffs and the resignation of its most recent CEO, Ron Marshall, Borders Group Inc. may face pressure from investors to consider a pre-packaged bankruptcy or liquidation, the Deal Pipleine reported on Saturday. The book retailer’s market cap is only about $53 million, slightly more than the $42 [...]

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Apple Debuts iPad and Launches iBooks Store
By David Hancock on January 28th, 2010

Apple Debuts iPad and Launches iBooks Store

Apple yesterday introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the [...]

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Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide to Offer Free Wi-Fi
By David Hancock on July 28th, 2009

Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide to Offer Free Wi-Fi

In-Store Access to Over 700,000 eBooks On World’s Largest eBookstore
Customers Can Download Barnes & Noble Free Apps and Get Access to the World’s Largest eBookstore — Exclusive Content, Customer Reviews, Information about In-Store Events, Locate a Store, and Much More
Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, announced today a strategic agreement with AT&T that will [...]

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Barnes & Noble Launches eBook Store
By David Hancock on July 20th, 2009

Barnes & Noble Launches eBook Store

Barnes & Noble has finally made its long awaited entrance into the eBook market with the announcement of the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). In direct contrast to the closed Amazon.com Kindle system, B&N’s eBookstore will carry eBooks that can be read on a wide variety of platforms, including the Plastic Logic [...]

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