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Starbucks President Attempts to Get Closer with Patrons, Maybe Too Close

By Jane • Oct 5th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

Author Colleen Gleason shared a story this morning about a friend of hers who was pursued, uncomfortably, by a married man when she was on a business trip. Turns out that the man was the president of Starbucks, Jim Alling. Since Apple and Starbucks has teamed up to provide Starbucks music to iPhone [...]

Is Starbucks the Next Oprah? The Non traditional Sales Venue for Books Continues to Rise.

By Jane • Feb 23rd, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

An interesting story picked up by Media Bistro today. Jason Pinter, author and Crown editor (imprint of Random House) compared the sales numbers of Chris Bohjalian’s The Double Bind: A Novel, picked as Barnes and Noble’s second store-wide choice versus Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Starbucks’ second pick. [...]

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Starbucks President Attempts to Get Closer with Patrons, Maybe Too Close

Is Starbucks the Next Oprah? The Non traditional Sales Venue for Books Continues to Rise.

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