Unlike similar bookstores that have recently closed — the Oscar Wilde Bookshop is the latest example — Mr. Herzinger, owner of Left Bank Books, said that he now planned to sign a five-year lease in the coming weeks to move to a larger space in the neighborhood, just a few blocks away.. MORE
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Last month, the American Booksellers Association published an open letter to the Justice Department, asking Justice to investigate Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon after they lowered prices of best-selling books to under $10. The threat, the ABA says, is dire: “If left unchecked, these predatory pricing policies will devastate not only the book industry, but our [...]
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The Borders bookshop chain in the UK has appointed advisers to try to find a buyer for the business.
Reports have said WHSmith walked away from a takeover deal on Friday, and that Borders UK could go into administration soon without a sale.
Waterstones owner HMV is thought to be one of the firms in discussions to [...]
“They simply treat books as a commodity,” says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain’s sternest critics. “There’s no sentiment to it. If it’s celebrity biographies that are going to sell, then that’s what they’ll focus on. They’re not looking at it from a cultural perspective… MORE HERE
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