Book Publishers are Competitors to Amazon?

Barely a footnote at the end of a Publishers Weekly column about market share for online retailers versus bricks-and-mortar booksellers was this:
“With Amazon’s growing power in book sales, it’s understandable that publishers may be a bit anxious on learning that in Amazon’s 10-k filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company lists among its [...]

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B&N Now a Content Provider (What About Us?)

Let’s say you’re a company who sells sandwiches.  Really tasty sandwiches.  And you package these great sandwiches and resell them through a variety of great outlets, stores around the world.  Some of these are great big chains of stores.  And they like your sandwiches, buy a lot of them, and resell them to customers.  Been [...]

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Borders to Reduce Inventory, Show More Book Covers

Today it was announced, kinda, that Borders will reduce inventory by 5-10%…more books will be positioned “face-out” as we call it in the book publishing industry.  This will absolutely ruffle the feathers of book publishers.  Borders is one of The Big Three for publishers, along with Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Now, a few things, most [...]

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Wiley Indy (er, Fishers) & Crosspoint Corporate Center

Looks like Wiley Indy will soon have company.
There’s long been a stretch of relatively untouched land right across the street from Wiley’s Indianapolis office here on Crosspoint Boulevard.  We even have a spot of woods between us and Interstate 69.  It appears the Town of Fishers has found a new use for this land.
A little background.
First, [...]

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E-books Sales Rise (Source: Strange, Unthorough Report)

And we’re back….For all of my loyal readers out there, all double-digits of you, I apologize for the delay.  Just a quick blogging reminder:
1. Life
2. Blogging
Onward and upward we go.
BREAKING NEWS: E-book sales are up.  Shocking, no?  How about a lovely graph to demonstrate, courtesy of the IDPF and the AAP. Then I’ll talk about [...]

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Who Still Sells Books?

Let’s start a conversation here.  Much of the talk about selling books revolves around the same few names, usually rightfully so.  But I know for a fact there are still a LOT of stores out there selling books. 
Ergo, tell me of a retailer who sells books, here are the rules:

Cannot be a traditional bookseller.  B&N, [...]

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Apple Highlights: Best Buy, iPhone, Training(!)

Apple recently release 4th quarter 2007 results, and here’s what caught my attention.
+ Apple had 201 stores open during the quarter.
+ Number of Apple Store visitors leapt to 38.4 million from 28 million prior year in Q4.
+ Apple retail stores generated $1.7 billion revenue in Q4 2007 vs. $1.11 billion in Q4 2006.  Huge jump.
+ [...]

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For Dummies Authors All Bunched Together

A cool article from The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon, a small community which is home to several of our authors: Jim Schell, Bill Chiaravalle, Suzanne Schlosberg, Dirk Zeller, and Barbara Findlay Schenck.
 Some highlights, and insight into the For Dummies brand, from the article:
‘… Deschutes County’s concentration of “Dummies” authors is about 8.6 times higher than the [...]

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Print is Dead, Nobody Reads Anymore, Blah Blah Blah

If either or both of these oh-so-bold (-generic, -flippant, - ignorant, , -inflammatory, -statistically untrue) comments are true, then why are Amazon.com, Penguin Group, and HP bothering with this contest?

Nice collaboration and co-marketing by Amazon, Penguin Group, and Hewlett-Packard, and a bright opportunity for authors.

Quick question for Amazon: Isn’t the word Kindle a bit too [...]

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Barnes & Noble + Borders + Amazon = 53% (Is This Domination?)

Publishers Weekly recently ran the headline Chains, Internet Dominate Bookselling. I clicked over, not expecting this to be news to me.  We (book publishing people) all know that Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders are our 3 big fish.  We love them, they love us.
The first thing I learned was that Bowker launched a new [...]

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