Will Barnes & Noble Buy Borders?

I’m no news outlet, but based on some of the search results that send people to my blog, people want more information about reports like this.  So go here or here for more on news that Barnes & Noble might try to buy Borders.  Don’t go to WSJ.com for the original story because they will [...]

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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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March is Dummies Month!

Do you know you’re not dumb, but feel frustrated nonetheless?
Craving some lightheartedness in your reference materials?
Been seeing a lot of yellow and black lately?
Having sudden urges to save $5?
Have no fear, Dummies Month is here. Whether your favorite book retailer be A1Books or Amazon, Powell’s or Softpro, or any of these other participants listed below, now’s [...]

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“Multi-Channel Shopping” (Circuit City’s $1 billion online business)

 I know, I know.  Circuit City?  $1 billion in online sales in a year?  Seriously?  Heck yeah, $1.4 billion actually.
It appears congratulations are in order.  Circuit City CEO Philip Schoonover cited a “massive shift” towards “multi-channel shopping” during a speech to the National Retail Federations’ conference in late 2008.
What Schoonover is referring to is something much like [...]

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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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