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Children's indies avoid the brunt of the downturn

Publication Date: Mon, 25/06/2012 - 08:25

The schools market, events and consumer loyalty are all helping protect the children’s independent sector from the economic downturn. While the BA recently reported a fall in the number of independent booksellers overall during 2012, down to 1,094 from 1,159 in 2011, children’s specialists are more confident about the future....

Caroline Horn | children's | downturn | indies | Kate Agnew | Retail
Women's brands hard hit by downturn

Publication Date: Fri, 23/09/2011 - 10:15

A squeeze on consumer spending in supermarkets and the migration to digital are being blamed for the spectacular falls in sales suffered by many of the UK’s biggest commercial women’s novelists in 2011

Sales of the most recent mass-market novels by the likes of Marian Keyes, Jodi Picoult, Veronica Henry, Catherine Alliott...

Benedicte Page | chick-lit | commercial women's fiction | downturn | Felicity Wood and Philip Stone | Home | Jenny Colgan | Jodi Picoult | Marian Keyes | Nora Roberts | Retailers | Victoria Henry