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Archives for March 2012

Bookselling: Newark’s The Book Nook to Close; Dymocks Holiday Sales ‘Best Ever’; and More

March 30, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

After failing to secure a buyer, The Book Nook in Newark, NJ will close on April 1 after nearly 40 years in business. Owner Pat Luckeydoo told the Newark Advocate that she is ready to retire and was unable to find anyone who wanted to buy the store. Closing the store “went from being a […]

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Corporate News: eSubscriptions from F+W; Princeton Review Sells Test-Prep Business; Hachette UK eBook Sales Now Over 20%; and More

March 30, 2012
By Michael Cader

F+W Media has launched the first of a series of ebook subscription sites across the company’s verticals. They are beginning with the Artist’s Network eBooks Book Club, a collection of over 100 full-color art instruction titles. An annual subscription costs $199. Impelsys’s iPublishCentral is their technology partner. CEO David Nussbaum says they hope to enroll […]

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People

March 30, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Kate Travers will join Workman as director, digital business development starting April 11th, reporting to Andrea Fleck-Nisbet. In this role she will oversee our web properties and services, develop and maintain Workman’s online communities, and help to plan Workman’s overall digital media strategy. She was most recently at F+W Media, where she was responsible for […]

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Smashwords Tells DOJ That Prices Have Dropped 25 Percent Under Agency

March 29, 2012
By Michael Cader

Smashwords founder Mark Coker has an extensive post on data he prepared for a phone call with the Department of Justice on Tuesday as part of the investigation of agency pricing. “My goal was to express why I think it’s critically important that the DoJ not take any actions to weaken or dismantle agency pricing […]

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International: Barnes & Noble Incorporates Digital Media Company In Germany; Dutch Book Chain Selexyz Files for Bankruptcy; And More

March 29, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

As another piece of Barnes & Noble’s coming international expansion, TechCrunch notes a Buchreport  finding that BN incorporated a new company, Barnes & Noble Digital Media GmbH, in Germany on March 15. Company vp, general counsel and corporate secretary Eugene DeFelice is listed on the new Germany company’s incorporation papers, from which one can infer […]

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Bowker Merges US and UK Consumer Research Brands; Random House Adds “Ideas Exchanges”

March 29, 2012
By Michael Cader

Following their previous acquisition of UK-based Book Marketing Limited, Bowker is merging that unit’s work with their US-based PubTrack Consumer research line under the new global banner of Bowker Market Research. That moniker will now incorporate their consumer research around the world, industry statistics, the UK’s Book Marketing Society, and their ISBN-driven bibliographic statistics in the […]

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