UK Fallout: How Much Less Is Ottakar’s Worth Now? How much market value has been shaved from Ottakar’s since Waterstone’s first outbid management in their proposed takeover? Analysts are expecting a new bid from HMV to be worth anywhere from 15 percent to 30 percent less than the original proposal. Ottakar’s shares currently trade at […]
Archives for March 2006
Lunch for Thursday, March 30
Scribner Drops Davies Book The NY Daily News quotes Scribner’s Suzanne Balaban as saying “we’ve dropped” UK journalist Emily Davies’ fashion memoir, HOW TO WEAR BLACK: Adventures on Fashion’s Front Line. WWD had accused the lengthy book proposal of plagiarism. Scribner bought the book in a major deal late last year. NYDN UK Merger Scene […]
Lunch for Wednesday, March 29
It’s a quiet day and spring break is almost over. Briefly: — New Zealand’s Margaret Mahy has won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, awarded biennially for making a major contribution to children’s literature. — BEA has announced the editors on this year’s Buzz Panel (you know, the one where editors are supposed to […]
Lunch for Tuesday, March 28
Ottakar’s Confirms Bad Year, and Worse Start to New Year Bad news continues among UK chain booksellers, as Ottakar’s reported a loss of 4.6 million pounds, on slightly increased sales of 176.5 million pounds for fiscal 2005. The company blamed “unprecedented price competition,” “the slowdown in second half sales,” and “the distraction” of an attempted […]
Lunch for Monday, March 27
Tokyopop Snatched by Harper, for Distribution and Co-PublishingA little over a month after being highlighted in the NY Times for renewing their distribution agreement with CDS, Tokyopop has switched gears. Now the company says they will move their North American distribution to HarperCollins — which had been looking for a client of scale ever since […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, March 27
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