Sales Down At: Harlequin, Waterstone’s Sales at Harlequin continue to slide, down $7.9 million for the first quarter to $129 million (Canadian), with most of the weakness in North American revenues. Same-store sales at UK bookseller Waterstone’s fell 2.8 percent in the first quarter. The slide comes after what had been a strong pre-Christmas period for the chain. Torstar/Harlequin release Guardian on Waterstone’s/HMV Agency Moves On the heels of Steve Wasserman’s departure from the LA Times comes the announcement that he will move back to New York, to run the city’s office of Boston-based agency Kneerim & Williams, alongside agents […]
Archives for May 2005
Lunch for May 3
Server Limbo The good news is that our fast new dedicated server is working wonderfully. The less good news is that, of this morning’s serving, the “DNS records” that tell computers all over the world how to find our new server have not been updated yet. That process is supposed to start imminently — unless it doesn’t. In the meantime, we’ve had to disable the interactive/posting features at the old version of the site, which is also working wonderfully. Otherwise, changes to member pages, account records, posted pages, and so on would look like they were going through, but they […]
Lunch for Monday, May 2
Please Note Some time in the next day or two, we expect to be moving to a new, bigger, dedicated server for PublishersMarketplace. The move will present a variety of improvements for members — once we get there. It’s a bit of an open question exactly when we’ll officially jump from one computer to the other (and because of the way DNS updates work, different user computers may get directed to the new version of the site at different times.) As a result, it’s possible that you’ll encounter some minor site oddities (e.g. a change you made to a member […]