Thalia Buys 50% Stake in Skoobe
The German bookstore chain Thalia is about to become a 50% shareholder in subscription ebook service, Skoobe. Launched in 2012 as a partnership between Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck, Skoobe is a more [Read More ...]
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Indigo Books and Music Opens First US Bookstore
Indigo's long-awaited US expansion launched this week in New Jersey. It's first US bookstore opened in The Mall at Short Hills, which is located about 5 miles from Barnes & Noble, and 27 miles [Read More ...]
Bookstores Are Thriving By Venturing Beyond Their Four Walls
When I debunked the myth (back in 2013) that Amazon was still killing large numbers of bookstores, I pointed out that the indie bookstores that were surviving and thriving had adapted to offer things [Read More ...]
French Booksellers Lose Their Shit Over a Self-Published Book Being Considered for the Prix Renaudot
Booksellers have many reasons to dislike Amazon, the least of which is that it is better at selling books than they are. This has spurred many booksellers to blacklist Amazon-published books, and now [Read More ...]
Waterstones is Buying Foyles
Two UK bookstore chains are merging. Waterstones, a chain of 250 stores with revenues around 388 million pounds per year, is buying Foyles, a chain of 7 stores generating around 25 million pounds per [Read More ...]
Amazon to Open Two Bookstores in Denver, Could Buy a Movie Theater Chain
Brick and mortar retail is dead, they say - so dead that Amazon continues to open bookstores, and is now rumored to be bidding on a small chain of movie theaters. Business Den reports that Amazon has [Read More ...]
Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport Gets a Book Vending Machine
For an international airport serving a major city, Billy Bishop Airport is tiny - smaller than many regional US airports. That's why it has no food court, or much in the way of retail. It doesn't [Read More ...]
Amazon to Open Bookstore in Berkeley (?)
There's been no official word from Amazon, but local sources are reporting that Amazon will be opening a new bookstore in Berkeley , Calif. From Berkeleyside: An Amazon store is moving into the [Read More ...]
Waterstones is Being Sold This Month (?)
Don't look now, but the UK's second-largest bookseller is up for sale, with a deal rumored to be closed this month. So says The Bookseller: The sale of Waterstones to hedge fund Elliott Advisors is [Read More ...]
Could a Bookstore Run on the Honor System Work?
Will the honor system work for a bookstore? While some would say that no one would steal a book, as we have seen with Little Free Libraries, that just isn't true. Love Dubai has the scoop on [Read More ...]
Amazon to Open Bookstore Outside of Boise, Idaho
Amazon currently has 15 bookstores, including the one that just opened in DC, and soon they will open one in a suburb of Idaho's state capitol. Meridian Press reports that a building permit was filed [Read More ...]
Amazon Books Feels Like It Was Designed by an AI, and That’s Okay
About a year ago there was a meme going around Twitter where people made fun of Mark Zuckerberg trying to connect with ordinary people. One of the ongoing jokes was that he was some type of alien or [Read More ...]
Automated Bookstore Opens in Beijing International Book Mall
Amazon is building bookstores that look like they were designed by an AI(*), but Beijing is going one better. The Beijing International Book Mall is now home to a completely automated bookstore. [Read More ...]
Amazon’s First DC-Area Bookstore Opens
I am still under an embargo and won't even be allowed in to see the new store until tomorrow, but the Washington Post has published a guided tour of the new Amazon Books location in DC. The store [Read More ...]
Write an Essay, Win a Bookstore
A reader just brought my attention to a contest which is ending soon. From My Shelf Books & Gifts, a bookstore located in Wellsboro, Penn, can be won in a contest. All you have to do is write a [Read More ...]