Sentences with phrase «chain bookstore sales»

It is a curious response, particularly in the context of several recent large chain bookstore sales and bankruptcies in Europe — France's Chapitre and Weltbild's bankruptcy filing in Germany being the most recent and troubling — which suggests European stores are struggling having a difficult time selling enough of their own books.

Not exact matches

Boire, who took the reins of the struggling bookstore chain only last September, had previously been CEO of Sears Canada, also a struggling chain and before that, chief merchant at Sears Holdings (shld), a retailer dealing with dramatic sales declines.

Bookscan compiles sales data from various sources — primarily chain bookstores — and tracks around 75 % of book sales for most titles.

The importance of increasing independent bookstore sales, coupled with expanding customer purchases of niche books from small presses and evolving publishers, demonstrates the ability of indies and small regional chains to thrive and profit under the giants» shadow.

The Barnes & Noble board of directors stated Tuesday, August 5, 2010 that it will consider the sale of the nationwide bookstore chain in a «bid to increase shareholder value.»

I've reached out to a number of bookstore chains, such as Family Christian to see if they have seen a decrease in sales.

Why are bookstore chains like Barnes and Noble enjoying a robust increase in book sales?

Most bookstore chains have their own ereader device and their own bookstore; but some companies like Smashwords, BookBaby, and Lulu offer «distribution» - which means they'll send your ebook out to all the online retailers and keep track of sales for you.

With Barnes & Noble posting its seventh decline in as many quarters and having almost all sales declines every year since 2013, it seems surprising that the only major Canadian bookstore chain would want to enter the U.S. market.

S&S provides weekly sales reports to their authors so I can see how many books I've sold (ebook or print) and also who sold them (indie bookstore versus chain versus places like Costco etc) They also have a great service to tackle piracy (a huge prob with ebooks).

Most indies deal only with the online retailers, such as Amazon, B&N, Apple iBooks, Kobo, etc., which means they have no need for distribution or sales to bookstore chains.

The publishing industry is in the midst of a massive decline, with sales of physical books dropping year after year, and Borders, the second - largest bookstore chain in the US, closing its doors last summer.

The publisher pays for all production costs, including editing, cover design, printing paper copies, warehousing, distribution, and sales calls to bookstore chains.

The top U.S. bookstore chain reported another quarter of dismal results on Tuesday, led by a 34 percent drop in sales of Nook devices and e-books business, and said it expects sales to continue to decline this fiscal year at its bookstores.

One bright spot was its college bookstore chain, where same - store sales rose 7.5 percent.

That's a tall task, because it depends on how strong the publisher is at direct sales to both consumers and bookstores, who else distributes the book, and where the majority of the sales come from (i.e., independent book stores, chains, supermarkets, specialty stores).

Barnes & Noble reporting slight gains in comparable sales in its core book selling business after years of declines that had led many to wonder whether the largest remaining bookstore chain might suffer the same fate as Borders, which went out of business four years ago.

The ISBN (International Sales Book Number) is a 13 - digit product number used by bookstores, publishers, libraries, internet retailers and other supply - chain participants for ordering, listings, sales records, and stock conSales Book Number) is a 13 - digit product number used by bookstores, publishers, libraries, internet retailers and other supply - chain participants for ordering, listings, sales records, and stock consales records, and stock control.

When stores like the Borders chain collapsed or when B&N's sales figures plummet, concerns are raised about what ebooks and online retailing is doing to bookstores, but that discussion largely focuses on the major players, and less on the mom - and - pop physical bookstores.

New York - based Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S. bookstore chain, has been losing money on developing and marketing its Nook e-reader and is less able to subsidize e-book sales, Souers said.

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

«We are working with Brazilian publishers and closing sales agreements with retailers, as well as a large chain of bookstores to distribute the eBook readers,» said Humphrey, which was excited about the digital book market in Brazil, «In over 5 years, 50 % of digital books will be in Brazil «bet.

Wow, so Amazon drives all of the brick - and - mortar bookstore chains out of business, in part by taking advantage of its special sales tax status, and as soon as the last competitor gives up the ghost, starts planning to move into their shoes?

Pocketbook told me that 60 % of all sales come from bookstore chains in Europe.

Waterstones is basically a chain of indie bookstores, managers have full control, although they still have to meet sales targets.

Foyles, the London chain of bookstores, said sales of physical books had risen 11 % last Christmas.

Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation's largest bookstore chain.

British bookstore chain Waterstones pulled Kindles from its stores due to low sales numbers.

We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the average reader will choose ebook.

Mass - market paperback sales have been sliding since giant bookstore chains and later Amazon.com started heavily discounting hardcovers in the 1980s and 1990s.

If you've happened to venture into an independent bookstore in the past few years, you may have noticed an e-reader for sale that isn't produced by an online retailer or a giant bookstore chain.

Estimates reflect sales of all types of participating bookstores, including trade, college, religious, chain stores and superstores.

Bookstores, especially the large chains, have marketing and retail professionals on staff to determine what books actually appear for sale in the store.

I can think of another major bookstore chain that was facing similar issues with diminishing book sales, and started to gravitate towards a lifestyle brand, Borders.

NEW YORK (By Phil Wahba)- Borders Group Inc, the second - largest U.S. bookstore chain, filed for bankruptcy protection, after years of sharp sales declines that made it impossible to manage its crushing debt load, and it plans to close nearly one - third of its stores.

That will eat the remaining traditional publishers and chain bookstores AND all the warehouse space, just as the Indies are eating their e-book sales.

Only time will time will tell, but given the evidence presented so far from the publishers, the last remaining bookstore chain and the earnings / sales reports, I think it's likely the traditional publishers.

Certainly the collapse of Borders didn't help, since Borders made up between 1 / 3rd and 1 / 5th of manga market dollar sales; Borders graphic novel buyer and manga fan Kurt Hassler, who later left the bookstore business to co-found Yen Press, was the trend - setter who turned chain bookstores into the # 1 manga destination (as opposed to traditional comic shops, many of which never sold manga anyway).

For starters, among e-readers in the U.S. market, the Kindle and Nook device families dominate, and Kobo lost a major source of visibility and sales when the Borders bookstore chain, one of its major U.S. distributors and content partners, went out of business in July 2011.

Amy has been a Book Buyer for a chain of bookstores as well as a Sales Director for a large books and magazine publisher.

There is a wide range of factors that are likely to push the velocity of change even faster for ebook sales specifically and Amazon's share of the overall bookselling market in general, but the fact that brick and mortar bookstores are closing at a faster rate than ever, from local indies to chains, is bound to contribute to a snowballing effect.

If part of your plan includes book reviews, media attention and sales through traditional book publishing channels like chain bookstores, be sure to avoid these pitfalls, so you don't «stand out from the crowd» in all the wrong ways:

Riggio continued to expand his number of college bookstores and his bookstores modeled on the Sales Annex, as he also acquired small bookstores and bookstore chains, including B. Dalton.

One would handle retail stores and online sales and the other would comprise Nook digital operations and the chain's college bookstores.

Total sales in the Nook segment, which includes devices, accessories and content, came in at $ 56 million for the nine weeks through Saturday, according to figures released by the bookstore chain on Thursday.

Comics sales The bookstore chain Books - A-Million had an up year, and CEO Terrance G. Finley credited that in part to strong graphic novel sales, including The Walking Dead and...

Over the holidays, Barnes & Noble bookstore chain saw sales down at its physical stores and at BN.com as well as in the Nook segment.

On Thursday, Barnes & Noble, the nation's last remaining major bookstore chain, said that it had steep sales declines in its digital division during the holiday period, continuing a steady decline for a unit that was once the centerpiece of its growth strategy.

Independent Publishers Committee (IPC): Plans and creates high - quality panels for such issues as current trends in technology, including the sale of books on publisher web sites; selling to the library market; working with independent and chain bookstores; and working with publicity agents.

Comics sales The bookstore chain Books - A-Million had an up year, and CEO Terrance G. Finley credited that in part to strong graphic novel sales, including The Walking Dead and kids» graphic novels.