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This latest news that bookstore sales are actually on the rise really surprised me. According to estimates released Friday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales rose 1.2% in July to $981 million. The July increase followed a 3.8% gain in June and resulted in a 0.6% increase in bookstore sales for the first [...]
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A children’s book about the election process is about to become physical reality thanks to Kickstarter, the wildly successful fundraising website. The author, Nick Dazé studied English at USC. He began writing about Roger Nix when he was still in college. The idea came to him in the summer, while watching coverage of the 2004 [...]
Long-time rapper Snoop Dogg is entering the book publishing market with a book that you can not only read, but smoke. Time reported that “Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook” will be released from Snoop as a marketing campaign for his new Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers. In the below video for the book, Snoop Dogg says [...]
Augmented reality has ultra-cool possibilities and seems more science fiction than reality. In the movie, Minority Report, we see a clear vision of the endless benefits of personalized augmented reality (from a marketing perspective at least). Augmented realty is already here. You see it with items such as X-Box’s Kinect, through smart phone cameras and [...]
Good To Great, by Jim Collins, tries to answer why some companies become wildly successful while others don’t. The book’s attempt to scientifically analyze top performing companies and identify common traits is no doubt interesting and revealing, yet it shouldn’t be viewed as a “business bible.” There are many skeptics of Collin’s findings, but more [...]
Including myself, Apple fans across the globe have mourned the late Steve Jobs. Months ago, when I learned a Steve Jobs biography would be written by Walter Isaacson, I was psyched. A couple years ago, I had read Isaacson’s biography on Einstein (named Einstein), and it became an instant favorite of mine. What’s nice about [...]
PublishersWeekly.com reports that E-book sales from publishers that report to the AAP rose 116.5% in August, to $88.8 million, compared to August 2010. The gain marked an acceleration in e-book growth compared to July when sales of the format increased 105%, the slowest in 2011. All trade print segments had a decline in August sales [...]
Books-A-Million, which has been taking over the leases of former Borders locations since summer, has officially announced its store plans for the holiday season. Beginning October 28 and continuing through mid-November BAM! will open a total of 41 new stores, said BAM! president Terry Finley. Fourteen of those leases were acquired through the auction process [...]
I’ve always been a fan of Dr. Seuss…who isn’t? When I spotted this on Publishers Weekly, I had to pass it along. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, a collection of seven tales by Seuss were first published in Redbook in 1950 and 1951. They are appearing in book format for the first time, [...]
Wow, in the wake of Border’s demise and a world leaning towards digital booklets, the #1 book retailer is slamming company records. For fiscal 2011, total sales increased 20% to a record $7 billion. Sales growth was fueled by inclusion of a full year of sales from Barnes & Noble College Booksellers (“College”) as well [...]
CNN reports that Borders Group will liquidate its remaining assets after efforts to find a buyer fell through, the bookstore chain announced Monday. The nation’s second largest book seller, which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, still operates 399 stores and employs approximately 10,700 workers. The liquidation process is expected to start as soon [...]
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, [...]
Powerful continuing growth of books on digital platforms–both e-Books and Downloaded Audiobooks–are highlights of the February 2011 sales report of the Association of American Publishers, which is being released today. The report, produced by the trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry, tracks monthly and year-to-date publishers’ net sales revenue in all categories of [...]
Yeah….so there is a lot of talk about comic books lately on PrintReady.co. We just can’t help ourselves! Entertainment.com recently released new pictures of the evil Red Skull for the upcoming movie, Captain America: The First Avenger, which we recently added to our 2 years of comic movies post. In this summer’s Captain America: The [...]
Today, I had to stay home to help around the house since my wife is sick. I notice that last month’s cover of Entertainment Weekly, Melissa’s favorite magazine, shows an exclusive called “Meet The New Superman” making we wonder if yet another Superman launch is wise, but it actually looks pretty interesting. Even more interesting [...]
The book publishing industry was just beginning to grapple last week with the many repercussions the Borders Group Chapter 11 filing will bring to all facets of the industry. The most immediate impact, of course, is the loss of revenue associated with the bankruptcy itself. The 30 largest creditors are owed approximately $314 million, with [...]
We feel a little obligated to support anything local to our office including the upcoming 4th annual Savannah Book Festival 2011. The 4th annual Savannah Book Festival will take place February 18-20, 2011, President’s Day Weekend. This prestigious literary festival, which remains free for all to attend, begins on Friday evening, February 18, and concludes [...]
