Sales of e-books on Apple’s iBookstore have made “barely a blip” in the digital book market. Will its new iBooks gift cards help to change this — or will customers continue to use apps to allow them to read Amazon and Barnes …
E-book sales continue to climb. But the popularity of digital titles is forcing publishers to ask some thorny questions about pricing, negotiations with writers and the future of the publishing industry.
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Barnes & Noble is hoping to boost holiday sales by testing new toy sections, following the “store-within-a-store” model, in five of its locations.
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission had planned to publish its findings in book form with Little, Brown. But the unusual deal between the two, which involved an advance payment from the publisher, has fallen apart, and Publ…
Why did News Corp. bury the earnings of its book publishing unit HarperCollins? Does the media giant view the publisher as merely an afterthought — or could Rupert Murdoch be contemplating a sale?
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