Not exact matches
A
name has been given to an evil that plagues independent
bookstores, a practice that was blamed largely for the demise of the Borders
bookstore chain: showrooming.
There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big
name publishers and
chain bookstores.
Chain: A large company that owns many
bookstores under the same
name.
By Stan Diel
[email protected] Books - A-Million Inc., the Birmingham - based
chain of 253
bookstores, will dip its toe in the print - on - demand book business and install on - demand hardware in a Maine store and a store to be
named later, the company announced today.
It could be a curse on
bookstore chains named «Borders».
Gandhi was the first
bookstore in Mexico to sell online and, according to market research carried out on behalf of the firm, the brand is now the first to be mentioned among 57 percent of respondents asked to
name a local
bookstore chain.
And when Publishing Perspectives inquired, Alberto Achar told us why the Mexican
bookstore chain is
named for the mahatma: «My uncle fell in love with Gandhi because he thought it was amazing that he was able to achieve independence for his people through intelligence and not violence.
One of the nation's largest, Mexico's
bookstore chain named for Mahatma Gandhi increasingly depends on non-book sales to stay ahead, according to the company's marketing manager.
If you think Waterstones dropping the apostrophe from its
name is the worst thing the
bookstore chain has ever done, think again.
Congrats to hybrid author Blake Crouch, whose thriller Dark Matter, (pubbed by Crown with film right picked up by Sony) was just
named a top 10 «best book of the year» by Canada's
bookstore chain, Indigo.
The enterprise is being co-founded by Tim Waterstone (whose
name is behind the UK
bookstore chain, Waterstones), and other savvy publishing professionals, as listed in this Melville House post: