MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition Christian Retailers Seek Book Pricing Investigation AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10--The Christian Booksellers Association (CBA), last week asked the Department of Justice to investigate what they call "illegal,...
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BN Store Sales Slump While Web Sales Increase
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition BN Store Sales Slump While Web Sales Increase NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10--Barnes & Noble, Inc. reported a 5% decrease in store sales over the nine-week holiday period from November 1, 2009, to...
BN to Offer Textbook Rental Program
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition BN to Offer Textbook Rental Program NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10-- Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. has created a multi-channel textbook rental...
Lubeck Heads Book Industry Study Group
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 14 - 21, 2010 Edition Lubeck Heads Book Industry Study Group NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 13, 2010--Scott Lubeck has begun his new job as executive director of the Book Industry Study Group and will preside over the January 21 BISG...
E-Book Piracy Likely to Worsen
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition E-Book Piracy Likely to Worsen NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/07/10--Digital piracy is spreading to the book world, according to a New Year's Day article at CNN. Dan Brown's new blockbuster, THE LOST SYMBOL...
Crain’s Tracks New York Job Losses
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition Crain's Tracks New York Job Losses CrainsNewYork.com, which provides monthly updates on the number of jobs lost in New York City since the peak of August 2008, shows that as of December 22, 2009, 139,827 jobs...
Scholastic Sees 30% Rise in Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition Scholastic Sees 30 Percent Rise in Profits NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK/01/06/10--Scholastic Corporation began the 2010 year with a whopping 30% increase in profits for the second quarter of 2010, ended November 30,...
Book Sales Hold a Few Year-End Surprises
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition Book Sales Hold a Few Year-End Surprises NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/06/10--Overall unit sales of books through December 20 totaled 724 million, a drop of only 3% compared to 2008, according to Nielsen...
Report Details Economic Impact on Book Buying Habits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 17 - 24, 2009 Edition Report Details Economic Impact on Book Buying Habits NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/December 17, 2009--Several interesting (and a few surprising) insights have come from a year-end Consumer Book Trends 2009 report,...
Borders Invests in Kobo eReading Site
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 17 - 24, 2009 Edition Borders Invests in Kobo eReading Site TORONTO, ON/AUTHORLINK NEWS/December 18, 2009 On the success of its millionth download, Shortcovers this week announced it has raised $16 million CAD from a group of investors...
