Mar 20 2013
Small online merchants file suit against Amazon.com – Amazon is getting sued by everyone. A class action suit on behalf of small third party merchants using Amazon’s retail portal has filed suit for unreasonably freezing funds. The interesting details of the suit include that “Third-party sales account for about 40 percent of all products sold(…)
Mar 19 2013
The Bestselling E-books of 2012 – Publishers’ Weekly put out a list of sales numbers shared by the publishing houses for books selling more than 25,000 units. It is interesting to see the titles that were originally self published, taken over by publishing houses, and still went on to sell in substantial numbers. Tina Reber’s(…)
Mar 18 2013
Fabio’s 54th Birthday Is Just A Good Excuse To Revisit His Best Book Covers – Fabio turned 54 last week and Huffington Post celebrated by reviewing his 40 top book covers. I had forgotten he was on the cover of Arnette Lamb’s books. I LOVED those Scottish historicals and would love to see those reissued.(…)
Mar 15 2013
Why isn’t B&N taking books from Simon & Schuster? – The Simon & Schuster v. Barnes & Noble spat may still be going on according to Moby Lives. Take The Love Song of Johnny Valentine by Teddy Wayne for example, which went on sale February 4th. The book has enjoyed an all-star media lineup with(…)
Mar 14 2013
Amazon slashes price of 4G Kindle Fire HD by $100, expands tablet to Europe & Japan – I don’t think this signals new models, but perhaps a slow down of sales or a price cut in anticipation to new Apple products likely to be announced in early April. “Amazon announced Wednesday that it’s dropping the(…)
Mar 13 2013
Harlequin sent me a press release that said announced a seven figure two “book” deal with Sylvia Day which will launch a new line of books, ‘Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin’. The two books are going to be titled, Afterburn (available August 15, 2013) and Aftershock (available November 15, 2013), which will feature(…)
Mar 12 2013
Netflix ISP Speed Index | Compare global internet service provider speeds – Netflix has set up a website where it compares the transfer speeds of various ISP providers. Unsurprisingly, in the US Google Fiber is the fastest (also non existent for most of the country). Clearwear is the lowest. My guess is that ISPs aren’t(…)
Mar 11 2013
Wool: Sci-Fi’s Underground Hit – There are a lot of interesting details in this WSJ article about Hugh Howey. Setting aside that this article could have just as easily profiled Colleen Hoover writing about young women struggling with losing their parents or dealing with sexual abuse rather than Hugh Howey, the article discusses the print(…)
Mar 8 2013
At Writer’s Unboxed yesterday (post has since been removed), the blog post was from an author (not a romance author) who was unhappy with the way in which readers interacted with her. She enumerated several questions she didn’t like including the impertinent ones about money (how much do you make) and manuscript review (will you(…)
Mar 7 2013
Wal-Mart passed on Barnes & Noble before, but maybe it should look again – Here are more B&N rumors. Walmart apparently looked at buying B&N in 2010 but the thinking at that time was that B&N’s web site could help Walmart’s online presence. I don’t really understand this thinking. Alexa says that walmart.com’s traffic rank(…)
Mar 6 2013
McNally Jackson to Open Store with Objects for Home Office – Is this the way forward for Barnes & Noble. McNally Jackson is a famous independent bookstore in New York City and it will soon be opening McNally Jackson Store: Goods for the Study. Sounds like Levenger on steroids. (I love Levenger) Instead she is(…)
Mar 5 2013
U.S. booksellers, meeting in KC, express optimism – At an annual get together of over 500 independent booksellers, spirits were high. Sales at ABA member stores were up 8% in the last year and some have suggested a “retro-fueled backlash against the digital tide.” KansasCity.com ‘Fifty Shades’ Porn Parody Countersuit Claims Books Are In Public(…)
Mar 4 2013
Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child – The biggest news of the day is that a child born with HIV was been cured according to medical staff at the University of Mississippi. The circumstances surrounding the child are rare. Most babies are not born with HIV due to injections of prebirth drugs.(…)
Mar 3 2013
Barnes & Noble had a big week in the news and none of it has been very positive. The reports started two weeks ago when B&N delayed the release of its 3d quarter 2012 earnings report. First came the news that B&N would be closing one third of its stores over the next ten years.(…)
Mar 1 2013
Barnes & Noble Reports Fiscal 2013 Third Quarter Financial Results – Yesterday’s big news was the dismal fiscal report of B&N’s holiday season. The previous two weeks have been rife with B&N rumors. One report in the WSJ was that B&N planned to close 1/3 of its stores within the next ten years. During Thursday’s(…)
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