Tag: business
member name: Chris Steib
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January 15, 2009 03:55 PM EST --
Per Publisher's Weekly , it looks like Barnes & Noble is dropping the axe on 100 positions from the corporate office in NYC.
In a statement on the cuts, CEO Steve Riggio said, . . .
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April 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
The Sony Reader, some have said, is a solution in search of a problem – that there's no apparent need for this technology and it is, at best, a benefit to a very narrow audience. I would argue, . . .
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March 03, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
March is Small Press Month, as you may have heard, and I've outlined below 10 ways to help our indie friends stay afloat in this increasingly conglomerated, flooded, and financially challenging literary . . .
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . .
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March 06, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
At the Association of American Publishers' general annual meeting today in midtown Manhattan, Microsoft Corporation's Associate General Counsel Thomas Rubin took the opportunity to trot out . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
As you, savvy reader of electronically published text, are probably aware, Kindle -- Amazon's enviable e-book solution -- sold out the very first week it was available via the online retail . . .
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June 07, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I first read about this on Truemors (the new site by web entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki), and tracked the link to UK techie news site Register. Here's the story, in brief: in an attempt to make a point . . .
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February 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
The good people at the Association of American Publishers announced today the book sales figures for 2006, showing that the industry dropped by a slim 0.2%, down to $10.03 billion from $10.04 billion in . . .
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August 22, 2008 11:32 PM EDT --
In this edition: Meth! Naked hula-hooping! Smellavision! Gunslinging amnesiacs! All in a fortnight's work.
Welcome back to the 50 Book Blog after my latest hiatus. Yeah, yeah. I know. Being . . .
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August 08, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
NY Times reports on the world-famous coffee company's latest announcement to start selling books (and DVDs) in its shops this fall, kicking off with a big push for Mitch Albom's new novel, . . .
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February 05, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
When the famous gambler Canada Bill visited Baton Rouge in the late 1880s, he searched all over town for action until eventually coming across a Faro game in the back of a barber shop. When his friend . . .
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