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April 1, 2005By Michael Cader

Lunch for Friday, April 1

April 1, 2005By Michael Cader

Lunch Returns For those who didn’t remember (or notice in the first place) that we indicated last week Lunch was taking a vacation break, we’re back, and now you know why you haven’t gotten e-mails for a little while. Bookselling Doldrums: AMS Suffers Further; Softness at Hastings and Ottakar’s; Ailing Australian Chain Will be Sold (and Borders Is a Potential Buyer) Every time Advanced Marketing Services issues a bulletin it appears to contain bad news. Though the company remains long behind in filing formal earnings reports with the federal government, they indicated in a statement earlier this week that they […]

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