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Archives for November 2007

Lunch for Wednesday, November 21

November 21, 2007
By Michael Cader

Borders: Good News (Comp Sales Up), Bad News (Losses Ever Bigger) At least Borders is selling more books. Same-store superstore sales of $616 million were up 1.1 percent on a comp basis, while Walden store comps were up 3.6 percent at $110 million, and international comp sales rose 7.8 percent (thank you weak dollar/strong Asia). […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, November 20

November 20, 2007
By Michael Macrone

BN Performs: Comp Sales Rise Barnes & Noble reported a better than expected third quarter, with same-store sales up 2.6 percent for the period, “at the high end of guidance for a flat to low-single digit increase.” Sales of $108 million at BN.com were up 14.5 percent compared to a year ago, as companywide sales […]

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Lunch for Monday, November 19

November 19, 2007
By Michael Cader

Snap Judgments, Kindled Perhaps it means something that, even as Amazon’s morning press conference to introduce the Kindle was unfolding slowly this morning, their online Kindle store was already live with all the specs, pictures, promotional videos and more that one could want. Having attended events like this for some seven-odd years now, there is […]

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, November 19

November 18, 2007
By Michael Cader

Newsweek Trades Puff for Kindle First Look Amazon wanted a reporter who would write a long gooey cover piece about how the Kindle will transform the reading and writing experience, a new gloss on the piece reporters have been getting wrong for at least a decade now, and they found their man easily in Newsweek’s […]

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Lunch for Friday, November 16

November 16, 2007
By Michael Cader

“Last Lecture” with Randy? The NY Post reports on the auction for WSJ columnist Jeff Zaslow’s book based on Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch’s “last lecture,” delivered in September by the 46-year-old computer scientist who suffers from terminal pancreatic cancer. “I’m dying and having fun,” Pausch said in the lecture, “And I’m going to keep […]

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Lunch for Thursday, November 15

November 15, 2007
By Michael Cader

Oprah Taps Follett Who needs a National Book Award when you’re an Oprah pick? Yesterday Winfrey selected Ken Follett’s 973-page THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH as her latest selection (as MJ Rose has noted, keeping her long streak of selecting books by men intact). In a statement Oprah said it’s “like nothing I would ever […]

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