Category: bookstores
Syria – “Beggars Can Be Choosers.” A Damascus Bookshop Rewrites the Rules of Literary Scarcity
Al Manhal Bakery and Books: a Damascus bookshop on historic Straight Street curating multilingual titles for post-censorship Syria. Beggars can be choosers.
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James Daunt Says Waterstones Customers Want High-Brow Literature, But He’ll Sell AI-Slop If Readers Demand It
James Daunt’s elitist disdain for AI books masks snobbery in publishing, amid lawsuits and authenticity drives. Explore the hypocrisy and industry fallout.
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“We are not a computer algorithm.” UK Booksellers protest publishers linking to Amazon during almost-over IBW
The letter is being emailed to publishers today, June 23 – one day before Independent...
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Amazon’s dismantling of its books operations continues. Book Depository will close this month. What will be next?
Here’s the thing: Publishers have for decades allowed Amazon to so dominate the market that...
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About That Englishman In New York Who Turned The Page On Barnes & Noble…
And somehow Daunt magically beat the ogre at its own game and apparently, they will all live...
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US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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Bookstore UK, the antidote to Amazon, delivered $2.3 million to UK indie bookstores in its first year
The imminent pandemic winter may or may not be as bad as last year, but it will be bad, and...
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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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Consumers are evolving: Canada’s Indigo will be focusing all its attention on digital investment. A lesson for book retailers everywhere
(CEO Heather Reisman’s digital focus) is in stark contrast to book retailers in other...
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Thinking the unthinkable: The Bookseller’s Philip Jones finally acknowledges what TNPS has been saying for a year: high street bookshops “are facing an existential challenge”
The biggest reason bricks & mortar bookstores have to expect the continued backing of...
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With bookstores closed much of 2020, more publishers inconsiderately report record sales and a “best ever year”
Bricks & mortar bookstores face an uphill struggle this year to demonstrate to publishers that...
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“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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