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B&N Exercises Its IP Options
After the U.S. bankruptcy court gave Barnes & Noble’s final approval for its purchase of Borders.com and Borders’s intellectual property last week, the retailer made quick work of notifying its former rival’s customers the reasons why they were interested in the assets. -
MPIBA to Launch Consumer Web Site & BYOB
The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association announced two new programs intended to help booksellers: an ad-driven program called Bring on Your Books (BYOB), and a consumer Web site called Buzzaboutbooks.org.
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MPIBA: Enthusiastic Show
Like its members, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association has been rethinking everything it does, including a new venue for this year’s trade show, the Renaissance Denver (Sept. 30-Oct. 2).
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Is POD Ready for Prime Time?
HarperCollins's announcement that it will make 5,000 backlist titles available through On Demand Books' Espresso Book Machine in November—with Zondervan and HarperCollins Canada titles to be added early next year—brings a print-on-demand tipping point a step closer, but with more hurdles to overcome.
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St. Mark's Bookshop Rent Fate Settled in October
Cooper Union, the landlord of St. Mark's Bookshop, has sent a letter to its finance committee asking it to examine the bookstore's request for a lower rent.
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Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Three New Kindle Models Starting at $79
At a packed press event in New York this morning, Amazon unveiled its long-expected tablet offering, called the Kindle Fire, as well as three new Kindle devices.
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EBM to Register Titles with Google Merchant Center
"Search global, print local" could become the new slogan for Espresso Book Machine users given today’s announcement that On Demand Books, the company behind the EBM, will register its network of more than seven million paperback titles with Google Merchant Center.
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Court Denies Injunction Against 'Elf Off the Shelf'
A judge has denied a request for the injunction against F+W Media and its Adams Media line, which faced legal woes over its big holiday title, the seasonal parody Elf Off the Shelf. This means Adams can return to actively promoting the book to its accounts and on its special ElfOfftheShelf.com Web site.
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It's a New World for MIBA
Usually, one or two authors or books ignite bookseller gatherings and steal the show. This year, however, it was the venue – the Renaissance Hotel in a historic 19th-century train station (nicknamed “The Depot”) between downtown Minneapolis and the Mississippi River, that upstaged everything and everybody at the Midwest Independent Booksellers’s annual conference (Sept. 22-23).
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Joseph-Beth Booksellers Adds Fourth Store
Five months after emerging from bankruptcy with a new owner, real estate developer Robert Langley, Joseph-Beth Booksellers is opening a store in northern Kentucky.
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MIBA, GLIBA May Merge Shows
Even though it came as a surprise to some booksellers, it didn’t come as a surprise to others: the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association are contemplating merging shows.
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Getting Together
With the growth in online sales, together with a fragile economy and high unemployment cutting into their customer base, commercial real estate developers are appealing to consumers by creating multipurpose community destinations that provide a mix of retail, dining, entertainment, and services.
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St. Mark's Bookshop to Hear from Landlord Friday
Cooper Union, the landlord of the Manhattan bookstore St. Mark's Bookshop, will tell them Friday whether they will grant a rent reduction. St. Mark's Bookshop is looking for a $5,000 per month rent cut.
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NAIBA: Watch the Transformation
The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, which hosted the 2011 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association annual conference (Sept.19-22), could serve as a metaphor for bookselling as a whole. With an exterior wrapped in vinyl and an interior filled with hard-hatted workers, the former Trump Marina Hotel is in the midst of both a figurative and literal makeover to regain lost business.
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Judge Puts Brakes on Borders IP Sale
Although Barnes & Noble was the winning bidder for the intellectual property assets of long-time competitor Borders, getting them, particularly by the September 30 deadline, is turning out to be a lot harder than the 9-hour auction.
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Porter Square Celebrates One Year of Fresh Ink
Last Friday night about 100 young people between the ages of 8 and 15, some still in soccer clothes, along with their parents came to Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., to celebrate the first anniversary of Fresh Ink, a galley-reading program for children.
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Powell's Books Cuts Eight Managers in Reorg
Powell’s Books, which laid off 31 staff members in February, announced Thursday that it has reorganized its management team and in the process eliminated eight executive positions.
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BAM Closes North Carolina Store
Books-A-Million will close its Jefferson Village shopping center location in northwest Greensboro at an unknown date. The store was the anchor for an expansion of the shopping center that opened in 2008, and was one of 14 in North Carolina.
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Liberty B&N Investment Cleared; Radio Shack Adds Nook
Barnes & Noble said yesterday that the FTC has granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, clearing the way for Liberty Media’s $204 million investment in the retailer. B&N also announced that Radio Shack will start carrying its Nook line.
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Borders's August Sales Slip
As Borders fades away, its latest monthly operating figures shows sales in the July 31-August 27 period of $13.7 million, down from $94.7 million in the prior month. Other revenue shot up, however, likely due in part of sales of furniture and other fixtures; other revenue was $126.8 million compared to $57.5 million in July.
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