I had lunch with Nicole yesterday and like good bibliophiles, we stopped at Barnes and Noble. Nicole bought a book, Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews and I bought one, Compromised by Kate Noble.
Both our packages were put in clear plastic bags. Is this the future of Barnes and Noble packaging because [...]
Barnes & Noble listed the following finalists for their 2007 Discover Great New Writers Awards:
Fiction
Matthew Eck, author of The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions)
Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown)
Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your [...]
Barnes & Noble has decided to stock copies of “If I Did It” in stores as well as selling the book online. Initially, it had claimed that lack of customer demand was keeping it from the retail shelves. Since the announcement a few weeks ago of the publication of the book, Beaufort Books has [...]
Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Books a Million (BAMM) all experienced profitable quarters due to the scads of people buying Harry Potter books.
Borders
Sales in the quarter ending in August 2007 rose 10.4%.
Excluding the sales of Harry Potter, the same store sales for Borders showed only a 0.4% increase compared to the previous year sales. [...]
While Simon & Schuster and Penguin are celebrating record profits for 2006 and Amazon’s stock is being upgraded from hold to buy, Barnes and Noble is struck with a 11.4% decrease in stock value due to disturbing reports of a depressed 2007 sales season. According to BN, profits were down for 2006 due to [...]
Publisher’s Lunch reported today that Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million had disappointing sales this holiday season with comparable sales down 0.1 percent for BN and 2.1 percent for BAM. BAM blamed the lack of a strong media tie in. Via Publisher’s Lunch.
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