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Appazoogle & the Next Generation
So what does the next generation make of the way digital books are roiling the publishing industry? “I’m ready to adapt,” says Jen Bray, after completing a course on Amazon, Apple, and Google, or Appazoogle, in Emerson College’s graduate program in Writing, Publishing, and Literature. “In the beginning I was all about the book. I’ve changed.”
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The Amazon Workaround
Fear that Amazon will come to dominate the bookselling market is nothing new in the publishing industry. But last week, as booksellers continued to decry the company’s price check app (which could be used to access prices on booksellers’ sideline items, like toys and DVDs) and as information about Amazon’s aggressive demands to publishers regarding co-op and retail discounts surfaced, some insiders began suggesting that the time had come to actively explore ways to lessen publishers’ dependence on the e-tailer.
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Google eBooks One Year Later
Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Group’s recent “Showrooming” study, while the number of people who read both print books and e-books has grown from 25% in 2010 to 37%, few are doing it through Google.
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Nook Headed to the U.K.?
Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble’s v-p of digital content, told delegates at the Publishers Association’s International Conference in the U.K., “I imagine in the not-too-distant future you’ll be able to have the device here.”
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Distribution: Sheridan House Back to NBN
Sheridan House, the independent publisher with books on sailing, travel, adventure, and mariner fiction, has returned to National Book Network for sales and distribution after a ten-year hiatus. Lothar and Jeannine Simon remain as the publishers for Sheridan House, which has more than 250 active titles including the popular fiction line of Nathaniel Drinkwater titles.
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Is Amazon Pushing Publishers to Brink On Terms, Co-op?
Last week Amazon caused something of a furor ith its reveal of a price check app consumers could use in bricks and mortar stores to then get discounts at the e-tailer. Although the price check app remains a hot topic, what has publishers more riled, behind the scenes, is aggressive moves the retailer is making in its demands on co-op and retail discounts.
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California Bill Will Provide Free Digital Textbooks
California is trying to rollback the price of state schools, but not by lowering tuition. Instead State Senate president Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) announced that he will propose legislation to give undergraduates free access to digital textbooks for 50 lower-division college courses. Print versions would be made available for about $20.
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La Casa Azul Bookstore to Open in the Spring
After five years of studying business and bookselling, 33-year-old Aurora Anaya-Cerda has signed a lease to turn her three-year-old online bookstore, LaCasaAzulBookstore.com, into a bricks-and-mortar bilingual store in East Harlem.
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Distribution: Turner Joining IPS, Hachette Renews Chronicle
Beginning January 1, Ingram Publishers Services will take over distribution for Turner Publishing. Turner will maintain sales and marketing functions and will work with Ingram to expand the reach of its content worldwide.
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October Bookstore Sale Fell 6.6%
After posting surprisingly large gains in August and September, bookstore sales fell 6.6% in October, to $886 million, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Jobs Bio is the Top Seller at Amazon
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was the top selling title on Amazon this year when combining print and e-book sales, the e-tailer reported Monday morning.
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Hollywood's Bodhi Tree Bookstore Still Looking for Last-Minute Buyer
The Hollywood, Calif., bookstore Bodhi Tree, which is set to close on December 31, may still find a new buyer.
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The Amazon Price Check App and The Battle over 'Showrooming'
If “showrooming” wasn’t part of the industry lexicon before last week, it is now, thanks to Amazon’s price check app that gives customers up to $15 in discounts to those who scan prices of products at different stores.
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Beyond Bananagrams
At a time when e-books and e-tailers are capturing a greater portion of the bricks-and-mortar book market, sidelines have become essential for filling the void formerly occupied by books—and keeping cash registers ringing. So much so that when Eileen McGervey opened One More Page in Arlington, Va., in January, she knew that she wanted to have not just books but also wine and chocolate. “That was for people to have multiple reasons to come into the store,” she explains. So far, it’s paying off. Her book sales have been strong, and she’s bringing in more bottles of wine than some restaurants.
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Amazon Backlash Continues to Build
For many booksellers, tomorrow’s discounts of up to $15 for those using Amazon’s price check app was the last straw, even though the app doesn’t apply to books. ABA CEO Oren Teicher, who posted an open letter to Jeff Bezos in Bookselling This Week, was one of many to speak out in Facebook, Twitter, and in the media.
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A Modest Proposal for Amazon
An independent bookseller calls for Amazon to pay for the sales she sends its way.
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Rizzoli Launches Branding Program
Rizzoli has become the latest illustrated book publisher to offer retailers incentives to set up branded sections.
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Booksellers Unhappy With Amazon’s Latest Moves
The combination of Amazon's purchase of Marshall Cavendish Children's Books and the e-tailer's announcement of a December 10 promotion pushing customers to use a price check app in bricks-and-mortar stores, drew angry reactions from some booksellers who claim the two moves heighten the need to examine industry business practices.
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Books & Books Turns Publisher
After opening a string of Books & Books bookstores, including one in the Cayman Islands, owner Mitchell Kaplan, who also produces movies of indie favorites with Polly Mazur through the Mazur/Kaplan Company and cofounded the Miami International Book Fair, is now trying his hand at publishing through B&B Press.
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