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The Borders endgame
I’ve written my Borders eulogies some months ago, here and here (and indeed here). Since then, Australasia has mostly folded up, and the US parent has been reeling and writhing through store closures,...
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Borders to close all remaining stores
Borders’ official statement (per the Wall Street Journal) reads as follows: Borders Group to Submit Hilco and Gordon Brothers Proposal to Court for Approval – Hilco and Gordon Brothers to purchase...
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What next for Barnes & Noble – and trade publishing?
The US press has been dusting off its “death of the bookstore” pieces following the Borders liquidation announcement. There has been plenty to read, much of it as fresh as an old haddock, but the...
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Kingston University blog link
My friends at Kingston University, where I am a member of the Publishers’ Advisory Board (Publishing MA) have very kindly splashed me on their blog, following yesterday’s rhetorical burst the the Tools...
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Front of Store – the e-book!
I started writing the Front of Store blog a year ago, as a response to British retailers’ 2010 Christmas trading numbers. A year later, a new set of results has been published, another Christmas has...
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On Flagships
The Bookseller has published my monthly column, and this time around, Waterstones’ Piccadilly flagship has sparked off my train of thought. In retailing, flagships tend to come in two forms – the...
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Amazon and Waterstones: Lessons from history
No argument about what today’s big story is – though details of the proposed relationship between Waterstones and Amazon are scant at present. The Guardian is all over the story:...
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The pbook tail: an ursine stump. The ebook tail: very long, very thin. And...
Some Twittering this morning, inspired by a couple of articles spotted by Jellybooks‘ Andrew Rhomberg. One is a market report from Publishing News, the other a blog entry distributed by ebookporn....
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Booksellers and publishers working together: The BA Conference
I spent Monday with the Booksellers Association Conference at the University of Warwick, and wrote up my immediate reactions in this piece, published by The Bookseller. I do believe that there is a...
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