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Booksellers, already competing with grocery superstores and price clubs, will surely be thrilled to hear that Starbucks, as previously noted on Quillblog, plans to start selling books this fall. Mitch Albom's latest novel, For One ... Read More »

August 11, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Books: hot, fresh, and ready to go

By Cassandra Drudi

Hit the ATM, the DVD kiosk, and the made-to-order book machine? This ain't no book vending machine, folks -- it's more like a coffee-machine, making a book for you in three minutes or so at ... Read More »

July 27, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Used book mogul houses newest store in used castle

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto used book mogul Patrick Hempelmann doesn't do anything halfway -- for his third book emporium, he's installing 200,000 used books in a restored castle, according to a Toronto Star story. The Hungarian Castle (located ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Chapters/Indigo hearts censorship

By Cassandra Drudi

If you're looking for the new issue of Harper's, don't head to Indigo or Chapters, 'cause it ain't there. The Globe and Mail reported on Saturday that the mega-chain has pulled each and every copy ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

Starbucks ever-expanding media empire continues to inspire fear in indies

By Cassandra Drudi

An article in today's L.A. Times should have indie booksellers quaking in their boots – Starbucks is continuing its slow, inexorable crawl toward becoming a jack-of-all-trades in the media arena with the addition of audiobooks ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Cheap books for everyone!

By Cassandra Drudi

Bibliophiles who whimper every time they hear the damage at the bookstore counter can breathe a sigh of relief. "Book prices are going down. I can say that for sure," says Simon & Schuster Canada ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

Trends in YA reading, part one

By Scott MacDonald

The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Flann O'Brien novel Lost and found

By Leigh Anne Williams

Every now and then we book-related toilers are reminded (as if we needed to be) just who's winning the war for people's attention in today's cultural battleground. To wit, The New York Times checks in ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

The ultimate product placement shot

By Scott MacDonald

A new kids' book to hit the shelves this holiday season marks a troubling trend in literary co-productions. Published by HarperCollins with what appears to be significant input from the fine folks at Saks Fifth ... Read More »

November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

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