ENTRIES TAGGED "booksellers"
Mobile Barcode Scanners and Retail Stores on Collision Course
Ilya Vedrashko points out a near-term future scenario in which retail sites are going to have to entirely rethink what integration into online services means: The obvious future of in-store experience: you find something you like, reach into your pocket for a small device, scan the barcode, and the device tells you whether and where the same product is…
Indiana's "Explicit" Law Struck Down
An Indiana law requiring retailers who sell explicit material to register with the state was struck down by a U.S. Federal Court on First Amendment grounds. From the Indianapolis Star: The law would have required anyone who intended to sell sexually explicit materials — which plaintiffs say could have included classic literature, as well as pornography — to register…
Amazon's Road to Profitability: Toll Booths on Your Road to Readers
Profitability pressures are pushing Amazon to become the toll booth that every publisher must go through to get to readers.
Borders Sells Stores in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore
From Shelf Awareness: Borders Group has sold its stores in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to A&R Whitcoulls, the major Australian and New Zealand bookseller that is owned by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners. The deal is valued at US $104 million (about $90 million now and up to $14 million in deferred payments next year) and should…