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Amazon demands print-on-demand exclusivity

From The Wall Street Journal: Amazon.com Inc., flexing its muscles as a major book retailer, notified publishers who print books on demand that they will have to use its on-demand printing facilities if they want ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Borders troubles

By Nathan Whitlock

Borders, the second-largest bookselling chain in the U.S., may be forced to sell itself off after hitting a financial crunch. Here are some takes on the chain's troubles: Borders bookstore may be up for sale ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

U.K. steps up e-book production

By Scott MacDonald

While the Canadian publishing industry is taking a wait-and-see attitude toward e-books, the U.K. industry seems to be chomping at the bit to get on board. According to The Bookseller, two of the U.K.'s biggest ... Read More »

March 14, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Canadians spending less on books

By Jacob Sheen

The 2006 Survey of Household Spending in Canada says that, despite an overall increase in consumption, "spending on reading materials decreased 5% to $260 per household." It seems that no one can stop the grim ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

By Jacob Sheen

Eye Weekly has a brief history of the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto. Apparently, it used to be a bowling alley. (Bring your own tenpins and a bowling ball and it still could be.) ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

The tale of the ghostly bookseller

By Nathan Whitlock

Over at UFO Digest, a site dedicated to the paranormal, extraterrestrial, and the hypermundane (oh wait “ that last one's our beat), there is a first-person account of a woman and her mother being helped ... Read More »

February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Free as in beer and books

By Nathan Whitlock

Now that the crisis over parity and pricing has eased somewhat “ at least for the moment “ we can again turn our attention to a more pressing issue in books: how can we get ... Read More »

February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Canadian Heritage’s state of the (bookselling) nation

By Nathan Whitlock

Last year, the Department of Canadian Heritage commisioned a report entitled The Book Retail Sector in Canada, which was releases late last month. (You can read the whole report here.) Its key findings probably won't ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

The shape of indie bookstores to come

By Stuart Woods

A Brooklyn woman has won $15,000 in start-up cash from the Brooklyn Public Library for her design of an independent neighbourhood bookstore. Her plan is so crazy it just might work: "a small bookstore with ... Read More »

January 29, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bookstore beauties

By Scott MacDonald

The Guardian has put together a list of the 10 prettiest looking bookstores in the world, and though not all of their selections are eye-poppers, they've certainly found some doozies. The first two, in particular ... Read More »

January 11, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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