Borders last week announced that many of its Waldenbooks and Borders Express stores would be closing nationwide (Wall Street Journal story here.) Among the casualties listed on the Borders.com site are stores at Valley View and Collin Creek malls. Chain...
The top story in the bookselling world this week is the price war among WalMart, Amazon and Target (so far) to determine who can sell books at the highest loss online. This is great news for people who buy best-sellers,...
David LaBounty, publisher of Plano's Blue Cubicle Press, had a lengthy response to my previous post on the doomed book industry. I'm posting it here. You can also read David this week on Utne Reader's Great Writing blog, where he...
Shelf Awareness has a nice, um, scoop on the new bailout plan for the book industry. I won't recap it all here. But I do like the suggestion that: "... President Obama, an avid reader, is launching a book club...
This will come as no shock to anybody who watched me try to divide up a dinner check, but I am not much of a business person. If I had a head for percentages, or margins, or any kind of...
I wrote earlier about the Pulpwood Queens' upcoming bash, but founder Kathy Patrick writes that this year's celebration will be tempered by the passing of her friend, Fred McKenzie, who owned Books on the Bayou in Jefferson, Texas. He died...
It should come as no surprise that the president of the Authors Guild is in favor of book-buying. But said president, Roy Blount Jr., makes his case better than most: "We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and...
If you're reading this blog, you probably don't need to be told that books make great gifts. But for the record: NEW YORK (AP) -- Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters and some other famous people would like you to buy books...
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