With Wal-Mart offering free shipping through the holidays, it’s clear that retailers are trying to remove potential impediments to online shopping this holiday season. Both Borders and Barnes & Noble will also provide free two-day shipping, but through ShopRunner. The new membership program charges consumers an annual fee of $79, equal to Amazon Prime, and [...]
With the announcement of a sleeker, sexier new aluminum bodied MacBook Air, you might have forgotten about Apple’s other slim tablet device, the iPad. Apparently, the device has made quite the stride in the e-books and video sphere, as the iPad is widely used to consume both those forms of media. A Nielsen study on the devices [...]
FoxNews.com – Barnes & Noble Set to Unveil New Nook E-Reader.
The “Keep Swinging” business biography byJay B. Myers ranked among the nation’s top-selling business books for a sixth consecutive month in September, according to the Inc./800ceoread Business Best Seller List. Myers is CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc., a Tennessee-based company that specializes in videoconferencing, distance-learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. Widespread interest in the story of his [...]
Amazon and Target are now selling the Apple iPad. Previously, the device had only been available from Apple’s online and retail stores, as well as from Best Buy. The move into other outlets heats up the competition between iPad and the E-Ink Big Three, Sony, Kindle, and Nook, all of which are available in various retail [...]
When we got our first glimpse of the Espresso Book Machine from On Demand Books we were of course thoroughly charmed by the Rube Goldberg nature of the thing, but were left feeling unconvinced of the practicality of it — would people really pay money for custom-printed physical copies of classic books they can download for [...]
The Ingram Content Group moves beyond traditional wholesaling Ingram has long been thought of as the book industry’s quintessential middleman, distributing publishers’ books and other products to thousands of accounts. But over the past five to 10 years, the company has invested tens of millions of dollars to become what Skip Prichard, president and CEO [...]
With sales of trade titles down, chains expand nonbook offerings Sales through the nation’s three major bookstore chains fell 2.9%, to $1.82 billion, in the second quarter as declines in their bricks-and-mortar stores more than offset gains in their online units. Of the big three, only Barnes & Noble posted a sales gain in the [...]
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 [...]
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 category [...]
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 [...]
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 company [...]