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Archives for December 2010

The Grinch Goes to Borders, As Major Vendor Payments Are Delayed

December 30, 2010
By Michael Cader

Borders warned investors on December 9 that they faced a potential “liquidity shortfall” in early 2011 and within the last 24 hours that warning has turned into reality for some of its major supporters–including big publishers. People familiar with the communications tell us that Borders ceo Mike Edwards contacted some publishers recently to indicate that […]

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A Little Slower than Amazon, BN Issues Nook Sales Superlatives (As eBooks Outsell Print on BN.com)

December 30, 2010
By Michael Cader

Barnes & Noble is playing catch-up with Amazon’s stream of releases about how Kindle is bestest, fastest, biggest-selling item. BN says they have sold “millions” of Nook devices, declaring “the line has become the company’s biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history.” More interesting is that they “now sell more digital books” (presumably calculated […]

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A Look Back At 2010

December 29, 2010
By Michael Cader

I’m usually not big on grand end-of-year lists and proclamations, but 2010 certainly has been the busiest, most complicated and most fascinating year since I stumbled my way into Publishers Lunch just over 10 years ago. It has been a challenge and a pleasure to lead the way with coverage of some of these complex […]

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More eNews: Sony Claims Big Plans; Grandinetti In LAT; Spring Design Suit Against BN Moves Forward

December 29, 2010
By Michael Cader

Sony‘s deputy president for the Digital Reading Business Division Fujio Noguchi pretends that the company remains serious about the ebook business, telling an Asian tech web site, “We are aiming to acquire a share of 40% in the global electronic book market in fiscal 2012.” (The site mistakenly believes that Sony has been “leading” the […]

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Larsson Sells 115,000 eBooks On Christmas and Day After

December 28, 2010
By Michael Cader

After Amazon reported that THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was their biggest-selling ebook on December 25 and most-gifted holiday ebook, Random House has said that on December 25 and 26, they sold 115,000 units of Stieg Larsson ebooks across the entire Millennium Trilogy. The company indicated their total ebook sales for that two-day holiday period “rose […]

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Skyhorse Buys Sports Publishing Assets, Prepares Children’s List

December 28, 2010
By Michael Cader

Skyhorse Publishing has purchased the assets of Sports Publishing, which went bankrupt in 2008. That gives them rights to over 700 books, including works by Michael Phelps and Dick Vitale. They will relaunch Sports Publishing as a new imprint with 40 revised and updated titles in fall 2011. In the same season, the company will […]

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