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The huge amount of attention that the lengthy presidential campaign drew has been cited by publishers and booksellers as a reason book sales have been sluggish for much of 2016. [...]

Publishers have long relied on local book club selections to boost sales. But for indie booksellers, book clubs' importance to the bottom line has been mixed in recent years, particularly [...]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH MORE SERVICE HOURS, BIGGER COLLECTIONS, AND GREAT COFFEE? Bookstores have become a lot like libraries these days - a fact that raises the professional hackles of many [...]

I'd had it with supermarkets some while back. And I don't step inside bookshops or record stores much these days. But at least that used to be a pleasure, before [...]

If you want to get your hands on a copy of Steven King's next novel, you're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way. According to The Wall Street [...]

Books-A-Million, Inc. announced that all stores will feature a selection of Duck Commander items featured on a camo-themed display. According to a release, Duck Commander is a multi-million dollar family-operated [...]

Mystery booksellers offer clues for boosting sales Passionate about their trade, mystery booksellers can create a hotbed of enthusiasm and creativity when it comes to plotting innovative ways of getting [...]

Smart marketing strategies target these relatively inexpensive, easily totable beach faves They add little extra weight to a duffel bag or airplane carry-on, they're inexpensive enough to buy by the [...]

Word-of-mouth publicity and astute marketing make Amazon.com the most-talked-about online bookseller THE E-MAIL MESSAGE came with a disclaimer: 'I am not the CEO of Amazon.corn. I am not on their [...]

Regional titles, personal favorites and a few surprises top the 'handseller lists' NOT, NEW POLITICAL titles, old favorites, tie4ns to current movies and regional mainstays are the kinds of titles [...]

Publishers are demanding creative proposals, proven track records COMPETITION FOR author readings has intensified across the country in recent years as chains have joined in the increasing demand for writer [...]

Many booksellers believe book retailing is not like general retailing. Consider the familiar tensions in home-textiles retailing NO RETAIL CATEGORY--not even bookselling--is an island. To test this hypothesis, Publishers Weekly [...]

Books-A-Million, Inc. announced that all stores will feature a selection of Duck Commander items featured on a camo-themed display. According to a release, Duck Commander is a multi-million dollar family-operated [...]

Special events, customer service help lure shoppers BOOKSELLERS AROUND the country are bullish about sales this Christmas, with many already seeing the heightened activity that points to a strong season [...]

Lots of facts, figures and advice to help general book retailers expand and improve their sales of the Good Book Taking the First Steps Two customers walk into a bookstore. [...]

5 While established niches like art and children's titles continue to flourish, religion and audio publishers are making real headway According to promotional publishers, the high-priced end of the bargain [...]

9 As the fall season gets into full swing, the prevailing mood among vendors of bargain books can best be expressed in varying degrees of positive. In the words of [...]

Independents face challenges selling CD-ROMs. Independent bookstores, the backbone of the book retail channel, continue to struggle with the integration of CD-ROM software into their book mix. While chains such […]

WITH THE closing of well-known children's bookstores such as A Child's Story in Teaneck, N.J., and Once Upon a Time in New Rochelle, N.Y., it might seem at first glance [...]

Byline: Thomas Pardee How do you leverage the power of one of the most lucrative brands in history while simultaneously distancing yourself from it? That's the marketing wizardry that book [...]

ACK Media, India's leading Education and Entertainment company, which owns some of the most loved brands like Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, Karadi Tales and Brainwave, launched the landmark 600th edition [...]

HIS BOOKS HAVE religious themes and they are published by Bethany House, an evangelical Christian book company. But John Fischer has firm ideas on how he wants to be viewed [...]

Value pricing and bargain shopping have become standard American pocketbook reflexes, and bookstore customers are no exception to this general retailing rule. Oddly, however, the very discounting that helped in [...]

As competition between stores stiffens, retailers are looking more carefully at sidelines to increase their customer base and augment sales. Although children's audio has become one of the most viable [...]

Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet now seem locked in open battle. For each company, the stakes are very different. Amazon needed to expand upon its already-successful [...]

When Barnes & Noble showed off its new Nook Tablet, the company had one goal in mind: make all those folks who pre-ordered the Kindle Fire rethink their decision. The [...]

NEW YORK - During Barnes & Noble's Nov. 7 unveiling of its new Nook Tablet, CEO William Lynch stood before dozens of assembled media and made a somewhat startling claim: [...]

NEW YORK CITY - Barnes & Noble has responded to Amazon's recent revamping of its Kindle line in perhaps the only possible way: announcing an upgraded line of Nook e-readers [...]

By Rosie Baker UK book sales rose 2% in 2010, with sales of digital products increasing 319% to take a #16m slice of the #3.1bn market, according to figures from [...]

Byline: Brian Quinton for PROMO Xtra Bridging the online/offline gap, Esquire magazine has collaborated with book retailer Barnes & Noble and augmented reality platform GoldRun to launch two campaigns that [...]

Nearly 50 years ago Elizabeth Haslam started working in her father-in-law's bookstore. The first salesman to call on her was a Bible rep. She listened to the pitch, placed her [...]

There is no word in the book business so ill-named as 'co-op.' Predicated on the concept of cooperation between bookseller and publisher, co-op usually elicits a frown, or at the [...]

Newsletters increase sales, enhance store image, convey changes in policy, build customer attendance for author signings--and cost a lot. Despite the expense, they play a core role in marketing programs [...]

Stationer's strategy does not appear to extend beyond 'tout back-to-school discounts'. I don't watch telly on a television set. I get the TV I like or need on the internets [...]

Worldwide Computer Products News-22 July 2010-NOOK for Android launched by Barnes & Noble(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com Book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE:BKS) announced on Thursday NOOK for Android, an [...]

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a bookseller, announced its new designer collaboration with Lilly Pulitzer for accessories for its Nook, a dedicated eBook Reader. The company noted it is putting a [...]

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a bookseller, announced its new designer collaboration with Lilly Pulitzer for accessories for its Nook, a dedicated eBook Reader. The company said it is putting a [...]

Who wouldn't want her self-published book distributed to the bookstore chains? Funny thing is, when I first got started in self-publishing, I had no idea about the many avenues that [...]