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Way to Display! Chester at Mabel’s Fables

As part of Quillblog's ongoing commitment to filling our site with ephemera, sundries, and both flotsam and jetsam from around the book world, we are instituting a semi-regular feature entitled Way to Display!, in which ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Amazon doesn’t want to get physical

By Steven W. Beattie

Rumours that Amazon U.K. might be considering opening bricks-and-mortar stores have been greatly exaggerated, according to an Amazon spokesperson. Over the weekend, the Sunday Times published an article suggesting Amazon was "planning a surprise invasion ... Read More »

December 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

More trouble for Borders U.K.

By Steven W. Beattie

A BBC article reports that Borders U.K. has ceased taking online book orders and suggests that the company "does not have enough cash to last until Christmas." The article caps a bad year for the ... Read More »

November 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen King’s new face of evil: predatory pricing: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

When you're an author of Stephen King's stature, you can afford to be direct. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly (where the mega-selling author is also a regular columnist), King had a message for retailers who are ... Read More »

October 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Eighty-foot flying furry dragon to help Toronto indie bookstores

By Alison Potstra

Written on the pages is the answer to our neverending story ... With the closing of Pages Bookstore, Ballenford Books, the Danforth location of TYPE Books, and David Mirvish Books, it would seem as though ... Read More »

September 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Indigo deals with the digital revolution

By Steven W. Beattie

Information wants to be free, or so the popular bromide has it. Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books & Music, has another formula: "All content wants to be digital." According to an ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Murakami’s new book arrives shrouded in mystery, and weighing a ton

By Suzanne Gardner

Haruki Murakami's first novel in five years, a two-volume work called 1Q84, arrived in Japan's bookstores today. The plot details of the work have been kept tightly under wraps by both the author and his ... Read More »

May 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The most interesting bookstores of the world

By Eric Emin Wood

Just because the greatest books rely on imagination and abstract images doesn't mean the stores that sell them have to. Thankfully, some ... Read More »

March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Your iPhone (or iPod touch) as bargain hunter

By Eric Emin Wood

As a buyer, I'll admit to occasionally putting a book down because I want to compare prices with another bookstore or check the Internet at home. Apparently some iPhone programmers have too, because some of ... Read More »

February 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Year-end book sales up in 2008, according to BookNet Canada report

By Stuart Woods

Despite bad winter weather and an even bleaker economic climate, Canadian book sales were up by 6% in the last three months of 2008, according to a report released today by BookNet Canada. But according ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: bookselling

Way to Display! Chester at Mabel’s Fables

Amazon doesn’t want to get physical

More trouble for Borders U.K.

Stephen King’s new face of evil: predatory pricing: UPDATED

Eighty-foot flying furry dragon to help Toronto indie bookstores

Indigo deals with the digital revolution

Murakami’s new book arrives shrouded in mystery, and weighing a ton

The most interesting bookstores of the world

Your iPhone (or iPod touch) as bargain hunter

Year-end book sales up in 2008, according to BookNet Canada report

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