Sentences with phrase «biggest bookstore chain»

Elliott Management Corp. has acquired Britain's biggest bookstore chain, Waterstones, the latest deal by the storied activist hedge fund as it builds up its private equity business.

But I'd still expect the nation's biggest bookstore chain to get serious about audiobooks.

Throughout 2016, the biggest bookstore chain in the United States struggled.

One month later, Saraiva, the biggest bookstore chain in the country, launched its e-bookstore.

Elliott Management has acquired Britain's biggest bookstore chain, Waterstones, the latest deal by the storied activist hedge fund as it builds up its private equity business.

Borders, the second - biggest bookstore chain in the country, went under, signaling a shift in priority from print books to e-books.

Since February 2014, Tamblyn and Aiki have led Rakuten Kobo through some significant advances: Rakuten's acquisition of OverDrive; the launch of Kobo's digital reading service in Mexico with two of the country's biggest bookstore chains, Librerias Porrúa and Gandhi; and the acquisition of the customers from Sony's eBook business and from the UK eReading service BlinkBox.

The big bookstore chains are wedded to the idea of big stores with huge, long - term leases.

However, just as the music industry managed to destroy itself fighting the advance of new technology, I'm really concerned that the big bookstore chains and publishers are going to fight this model.

The other missing pieces are bookstores and libraries, but I doubt much good news will be coming from either sector; the big bookstore chains are stumbling badly this year, and my local stores have cut back on their graphic novel inventory, while libraries, like all branches of local government, must contend with budget cuts.

Teleread reports on the fact that REDgroup Retail, owner of 3 big bookstore chains (Borders Australia, Angus & Robertson Australia, Whitcoulls New Zealand), has been placed into voluntary administration.

Utilize one of the big bookstore chains.

Not exact matches

Independent bookstores, which were already threatened by big chains, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, knew they would end up having to compete with Amazon's wholesale prices and scale.

It is a logical and efficient way for a small bookstore to expand its footprint, especially as big chains have shuttered locations, leaving a vacuum for enterprising independent stores to fill.

It would be a much better story if this bookstore was one of those big chain stores, you...

After drawing a lot of attention back when it was first announced by Viz Media, volumes one and two of Pokemon Black & White have hit comic store shelves (they were in most big chain bookstores a couple weeks back).

It seems safe to say the biggest factor of these Tokyopop cuts, past Stu Levy's often fickle - seeming management style, is the recent bankruptcy of the American bookstore chain, Borders.

Libraries, bookstores, gift shops, Big Box chains, Apple... do you really want to wager your book's future and ignore every other retail option?

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There's often a big difference between chain stores and independent bookstores.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

But this is misinformation or spin by those who would like it to be true, such as the Big Five, or bookstore chains who make their money from selling Big Five books.

There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big name publishers and chain bookstores.

Printed books, including retail shelving space, are disappearing at an alarming rate, as are big chain bookstores.

I think we will always have brick - and - mortar bookstores in some form or fashion, but it's clear that the heyday of the big - box chain bookstore is just about over.

With the rise of online book selling and of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.

Maybe the great, big, green bookstore chain that finally got Starbucks into the correct proximity to the printed word is perfectly willing to turn around and under - sell its own former employee, Kachka, because it's trying to wrest more co-op concessions from publishers.

At the time, I heard about a bookstore owner complaining that he had to close his doors because of the Big Chains.

Slightly off topic but I remember when people were complaining about the Big Chains (B&N & Borders among others) were killing the independent bookstores.

What I like about these is that they turn any business into a fully stocked bookstore with an inventory that rivals / exceeds the big chain bookstores.

In the United States, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookstore chain, took a much bigger gamble by investing heavily in the creation of its own e - reader / tablet.

2 of the 3, Eisler and Brockway, had already had the big publisher, had already seen their books on the shelves of everything from Walmart to grocery stores to the big chain or little indie bookstores.

The buy decisions for big chains are made in the central office, not the individual bookstores.

Apple (aapl) and bookstore chain Barnes & Noble (bks) are big e-book players too, though they trail far behind.

That's assuming you can get into bookstores at all: most indie shops will only take self - published books on consignment, and big chain stores won't stock them, period.

There were already more established ereaders, offered by more well - known companies, when they entered the market, and they had no big retailer support, whereas in many of the international markets where they've gained a substantial following they were partnered with a major bookstore chain and arrived before the Kindle was available.

The screed does make one useful point by noting how, in the past, chain bookstores and big distributors were hardly angelic in their dealings with publishers.

So you get that concentration of power in a relatively small number of big publishers and bookstore chains.

VB: It used to be that writers were discouraged from doing a «small book» in the middle of a career of bigger books, because the chain bookstores — the brick and mortar stores — kept close track of sales, and low sales would hurt the prospects for a writer's future books.

It's also going to focus on the small, single location indie bookstores since the big chains can be problematic.

What's dramatic about this biggest of all US bookstore chains in what may be near - extremis is, of course, what that death could mean to so many in the industry (not least the jobs lost) and to those who enjoy and depend on physical bookstores.

It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd at the bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a local petition and a community board resolution).

And while some of its peers in the big - box space, such as Office Depot, can experiment with smaller stores because their customers come in looking for specific products that can be ordered through the chains» websites, a bookstore is too much about the experience of exploring new products in person for that to be a successful strategy for Barnes & Noble, notes Montgomery.