In a digital landscape where AI-authored content is the new frontier, Amazon makes a move to limit the tide.
Amazon’s AI Problem
Category: Bookselling
Big Changes May Save Barnes and Noble
A huge focus of James Daunt’s keynote speech to the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) was how Barnes and Noble is bouncing back from the retail apocalypse. It also included a lot about mundane changes like new furniture to major overhauls of how books are even shelved! One big change is that stores can now […]
The French love their bookstores
In the 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan stars as an independent bookseller whose livelihood is threatened by a behemoth bookstore chain owned by Tom Hanks. Thats was fifteen years ago. Today, book selling is a different game, the pendulum having swung so much to the other side that it’s the few chains left who are fighting for survival against Internet book sellers and e-books.
Amazon hiring in Southern California
The opening of the Amazon facility at the former Norton Air Force Base has proven to be a boon for the city of San Bernardino, which is reeling from a recent bankruptcy filing and workforce layoffs.
Have an SF or Fantasy Manuscript? Get Published Now!
At least one publisher will soon be accepting unsolicited manuscripts over the transom. Harper Voyager, HarperCollins’ science fiction and fantasy imprint, has announced that it will accept unagented manuscripts for a two-week period in October. From October 1 until October 14, Harper Voyager is opening the transom to unsolicited manuscripts. The decision as to which manuscripts to publish will be made jointly by editors in the US, UK, and Australia.
eBook Sales Now Lead Hardcovers
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[/caption]According to numbers posted Friday on GalleyCat, sales from eBooks in the first quarter of 2012 topped hardcover sales.
Jason Boog at GalleyCat writes that the sales report from the March Association of American Publishers indicates that net sales revenue from adult eBooks were $282.3 million; hardcover sales, $229.6 million. Last year, during the same period, hardcovers raked in $335 million; eBooks, only $220.4 million.
Amazon to build two fulfillment centers in California
Is your local Barnes & Noble closing down?
Is Barnes and Noble doomed to Borders’ fate? Borders’ liquidation this summer should have been Barnes & Noble’s grand opportunity to grab a sizable market share, just as the warehouse book-selling superstores benefited in the past when they ruthlessly forced countless smaller and independent bookstores to board up and call it quits. But something isn’t […]