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Mon, 21/05/2012 - 08:20Waterstones has dropped its initial subscription numbers on some titles following the introduction of a new computerised buying tool intended to enable fast stock replenishment.
Publishers have reported substantial drops for initial orders outside of central promotions, with a decline of ten-fold to the lower hundreds in average...
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Wed, 16/05/2012 - 09:45Alison Carnwath, the chief of commercial property company Land Securities, has said some high streets may fail to recover from the impact of the recession on consumer spending.
In an article in Retail Week, ...
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Mon, 26/03/2012 - 08:05Publishers have called on retailers to come up with creative new paperback promotions in stores to fill the void left by the scrapping of Waterstones' three-for-two offer and the downturn in paperback fiction sales.
According to Nielsen BookScan, paperback sales of the top 5,000 titles since Waterstones ended its three-for-two...
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Mon, 19/03/2012 - 08:10The Works is enhancing its retail experience around books, creating genre sections, themed window and in-store displays, and increasing the percentage of books it offers to over half of its product range. The chain also plans to continue to grow its estate.
Andrea Bennett, buying director at The Works, said the company had a series...
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Wed, 07/03/2012 - 08:40Little, Brown author Val McDermid has backed the role of publishers, as children's laureate Julia Donaldson spoke of her concern over the future of high street bookshops.
Speaking at the All Party Parliamentary Writers Group and All Party Parliamentary Publishers Group Author Dialogues Evening last night (6th March), organised by...
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Mon, 13/02/2012 - 08:16Irish-owned retailer Eason has reached agreement with staff over a cost-reduction programme involving 150 redundancies, after months of negotiations with union Siptu.
The company is also to close its shop in Talbot Street, Dublin, on 12th March, with the shop's 12 staff offered redeployment or redundancy.
The...
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Mon, 13/02/2012 - 08:15Foyles has launched a new e-book store with free e-reading apps giving access to more than 200,000 titles available in the UK. The bookseller called it "the first in a series of new digital developments".
Users will be able to access their e-book library...
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Fri, 10/02/2012 - 08:10The Works is heralding a revived "commitment to books" after appointing a new c.e.o. and celebrating pre-Christmas like-for-like sales growth of 12%.
Former m.d. Kevin Keaney, recently promoted to the position of c.e.o., said the book, stationery and toy retailer sold 10 million books in the last quarter to Christmas, and...
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Fri, 10/02/2012 - 08:04Indigo Books & Music has reported a fall in profit of C$3.3million (£2.09m) in its third quarter due to high discounting of physical books and increasing sales of "lower margin e-readers."
The Canadian bookselling chain reported a net profit for the quarter ending 31st December of C$23.7m, down from C$27m for the...
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Wed, 18/01/2012 - 15:56The Booksellers Association has pledged to write to the chief executives of all 390 local authorities to call on them to lower business rates for bookshops. The move comes following a call in the House of Commons for booksellers to be given a special business rate incentive to set up on the high street.
During the six-hour Commons...
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