Media Play-ed Out The continuously restructuring Musicland has announced that they will close all 61 Media Play stores, operating in 18 states — which carry a variety of media, including books — by the end of January. Overall the privately-owned Musicland does about $1 billion a year in sales, through more than 800 stores. AP Book Standard has more details on how the liquidation will unfold Looking Back The lead of this AP article makes you think it might be about publishers and the Internet, but it’s really more of reporter Hillel Italie’s overview of the year in publishing: “In […]
