Quill and Quire

Bookselling

Another one bites the dust

After 13 years in business, the last seven of which were spent at its current location on Maiden Lane in downtown Windsor, Works on Paper bookstore is shutting its doors for good. In an interview ... Read More »

September 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

By Scott MacDonald

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is at the center of a burgeoning publishing world brouhaha, with Barnes & Noble on one side and Amazon.com on the other. According to the Associated Press: Chelsea Green Publishing, ... Read More »

August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Twelve must-haves for booksellers

By Sara Forsyth

Market research firm Nielsen just released a list of the top 12 books that booksellers "cannot afford not to stock." The U.K.'s Telegraph notes that the works of Jane Austen, The Lord of the Rings ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Should booksellers buy books “blind?”

By Scott MacDonald

Using the new Christopher Ciccone-penned Madonna tell-all as a lead-in, Slate looks at the book-world phenomena of buying books "blind": Christopher Ciccone's new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Little Sister’s profiled

By Scott MacDonald

The Globe and Mail has posted an interesting interview with Jim Deva, one of the proprietors of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium in Vancouver, in which he explains his reasons for wanting to sell ... Read More »

June 13, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Borders dumps 20% of corporate workforce

By Scott MacDonald

There has been much speculation recently about the future of the U.S. book chain Borders, which has been on hard times. Most of the rumours focussed on a possible sale of the company to competitor ... Read More »

June 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

By Scott MacDonald

Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »

May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Tales of two bookstores

By Scott MacDonald

Independent bookstores seem to be getting a lot of lovin' from the media this week, with two different stores receiving full-on profile treatment. First up is Halifax's Frog Hollow Books, profiled in The Globe and ... Read More »

May 2, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Get yer free comics!!

By Scott MacDonald

In case you hadn't heard, tomorrow (May 3) is the seventh annual Free Comic Book Day, and comic book shops across the country will be handing out gratis goodies to all comers. Torontoist has a ... Read More »

May 2, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events

Amazon says deep discounts are just unfair

By Nathan Whitlock

Here's a twist: Amazon UK is angry at British publishers for “ wait for it “ applying deep online discounts to their books. From The Times: An online price war for books has broken out, ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Prev 16 171819 20....22 23 Next

Job Board