Archives for August 2004

More Schedule Notes Here’s a big Lunch, to hold you for a while. There will be no dispatch tomorrow, and very few next week. We will send out the weekly Deals early in the week; that may be the only issue until after Labor Day, though we’ll keep you posted further in the deal mail. […]

More Notes As indicated last week, Lunch will be sporadic this week — there will likely be no servings for at least the next two days. In this jumbo serving you’ll find the week’s deals as well as the regular Monday offerings. Borders Sees Unlimited International Growth As we’ve underscored before, the international division is […]

Light Lunch It’s a classic late-August Friday, so today’s meal is light. Lunches may be sporadic over the coming week, due to a powerful combination of travel and summer. A few links and items of interest: The Quarto Group reported sales for the first six months of year of 31 million pounds, up 4 percent, […]

Comp Sales Rise at BN Superstores Barnes & Noble reported second quarter sales from their bookstores unit of $1.015 billion. Of that, BN stores accounted for $961.3 million, up 5 percent overall, with comparable store sales rising 1.4 percent. B. Dalton comprised $39.9 million, a comparable store decrease of 6.8 percent. At BN.com, quarterly sales […]

Notes Today’s a travel day, so this post is a little rushed. Lunches may be a little late the rest of this week. As you may know, we’ve made lots of subtle but important improvements to PublishersMarketplace features this summer — faster deal searching and the ability to use multiple keywords, the great new deal […]

Khouri Speaks Norma Khouri has admitted to some measure of fabrication in a televised interview. She now maintains she lived in Jordan for 12 years. “I had lived in Chicago and I lived in Greece and I have lived in Jordan. When I wrote the memoir I chose to write only about my time in […]