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Borders UK & Ireland Sold
Eoin Purcell Big news From The Bookseller: Borders UK and Ireland has been sold to Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson’s Risk Capital Partners for a £10m up front cash payment plus an additional deferred...
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The Publishing Recession
Eoin Purcell Troubled Times There is little point denying it, we are in the middle of some big changes in global publishing. It’s moments like this that remind you why working and living in what some...
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Quick Link:Borders Group Launches E-Bookstore With Titles Provided by Kobo –...
It seems to me that a price war sparked by Borders is the least likely outcome, but perhaps I’m missing something! For consumers, the entrance of Borders into the e-book marketplace may mean lower...
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Go Read This | Brillig: Borders, Post-Mortem
Excellent post this! You may notice that none of the changes all these CEOs were doing sped up the supply chain. Even after Borders put in a reorder for a backlist book, it would still take two to four...
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Quick Link | Bye, Bye, Borders? – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic
It remains my view, as I have written before, that closure of bookshops will mean that the very good one (and the lucky) will survive. Borders will be missed if it goes, of that there is no doubt, but...
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Go Read This | Will Independent Bookstores Seize the Day? « INVERSO
Intrigued by this article: Even if a substantial majority, say sixty percent, of the supply gap is captured by Amazon, B&N, or by a conversion to digital reading, there remain tens, if not hundreds...
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Go read This | Tough deal – The Bookseller
Lovely piece by Jude Rogers in The Bookseller that illustrates exactly how much the industry has changed over the last decade or so. Really worth considering: Take what happened to us in 2007. Before...
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