The 300-person conference at Guarujá brings publishers, distributors, booksellers, and printers together for an industry update.
Italy: A New Ubik Bookstore on Sicily’s Island of Ortigia
The Ubik bookstore in Syracuse’s Ortigia district has reopened under new management ahead of Italy ‘s guest of honor turn at Frankfurt.
Italy’s Messaggerie-Libraccio Alliance: A Shift in Ownership
During ‘Bologna week,’ Publishing Perspectives learned that the Italian distributor Emmelibri-Messaggerie and the bookstore chain Libraccio are engaged in a merger.
Canada’s Indigo Bookstore Chain Agrees to a Buyout Offer
The buyout offer is expected to close in June, when Indigo will be removed from Toronto’s stock market, the company going private.
James Daunt at FutureBook Live: Barnes & Noble’s ‘Crucifyingly Boring’ Stores
Seeing Barnes & Noble stores’ character ‘crushed’ by the corporate ‘opulence’ of American business, James Daunt says the chain must ‘rip out the boring.’
Elliott Management Agrees to Buy Barnes & Noble, Daunt to Run Both B&N and UK’s Waterstones
Elliott will pay some US$476 million for Barnes & Noble, having last year bought the UK’s main chain Waterstones. James Daunt is to run both companies.
Barnes & Noble’s Former CEO, Demos Parneros, Launches Lawsuit Against Bookseller
A late-summer standoff has flared with the US publishing industry’s largest–and longest-struggling–brick-and-mortar retail chain. Its former CEO is suing for defamation. The company, in response, alleges sexual harassment.
Books-a-Million Offers to Take Over 35 Borders Stores
Books-a-Million bookstore chain has offered to take over 35 soon-to-be-liquidated Borders bookstores.
Bad Decisions, Worse Luck: How Borders Blew It
Firing its community relations coordinators, handing Amazon its web site, “category management”…Why 2001 was the beginning of the end for Borders
Need to Know: End of the Line as Borders Submits for Liquidation
Any hopes of Borders being miraculously saved from liquidation, were squandered as part of the debate on Border’s grim future was finally laid to rest.
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