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  Indigo joins Amazon-published book boycott

  1118 readersCanadian bookstore chain Indigo has added its voice to Barnes & Noble and Books a Million in stating that it will not carry books published by Amazon’s publishing imprint, the Globe and Mail reports. Indigo issued the standard statement decrying Amazon’s predatory tactics and congratulating Barnes & Noble for “taking a leadership stance on the

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  Barnes & Noble declines to sell Amazon-published titles…sort of

  1371 readersBarnes & Noble has announced it will not be carrying Amazon-published titles in its stores. B&N chief merchandising officer Jaime Carey issued a statement saying that the company was taking a stand against “Amazon’s continued push for exclusivity”, and that B&N didn’t get many requests for Amazon titles anyway. So, Carey said, if B&N customers want

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  Digital and Kobo help Indigo’s bottom line

  1039 readersAccording to The Bookseller Canadian book retailer Indigo saw a 14% revenue rise because of ecommerce sales and sales of the Kobo ebook reader. Kobo e-readers were among the bestselling items at its stores during the holiday season, while sales from its website, chapters. indigo.ca, were up 6.5%. Chief Executive of Indigo, Heather Reisman, said

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  Indigo CEO says surprising number of customers read both digital and physical books

  770 readersFrom The Globe and Mail: … The dual-reading consumers augur well for the future of her business, Indigo Books & Music Inc.,as it gets squeezed by the inexorable shift to e-reading. As a result of that shift, Ms. Reisman, Indigo’s chief executive officer, has spearheaded a massive transformation of Indigo as predominantly a bookseller into what

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  Profits are down at Indigo Books

  1511 readersIndigo Books and Music, the majority shareholder in Kobo, has posted its financial reports for the latest quarter. Indigo reported a loss, as compared to a profit from a year ago. The retailer said Tuesday it lost $11.7 million during the quarter tha...

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  Major Shake-up at Indigo Books

  1153 readersIndigo Books & Music, corporate parent of Kobo Books, today announced the appointment of a new President. Veteran retailer and current Indigo Board member Tedford G. Marlow will take the reins of this Canadian company effective April 1st. The cur...

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  FastPencil Partners With Barnes & Noble

  482 readersDigital publishing platform FastPencil has partnered with Barnes & Noble for a new merchandising partnership that will help FastPencil authors get their books marketed in the book retailer’s stores. According to the terms of the partnership, authors on FastPencil’s Premiere and Wavecrest imprints, will gain merchandising placement both in-stores, online and in the Nook store. “FastPencil has a

• Barnes & Noble’s New Spinoff Expert

  928 readers According to The Wall Street Journal, Barnes & Noble’s new chief financial officer is a spinoff expert, although the company denies that’s why it hired him (Bookseller Barnes & Nobel Hires a Spinoff Veteran): Barnes & Noble Inc. named Michael P. Huseby, a Cablevision Systems Corp. veteran with spinoff experience, as its chief financial officer, but

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  OfficeMax To Sell The Nook

  9237 readersOfficeMax is going to start selling Barnes & Noble’s Nook eReaders at its retail stores nationwide on Saturday. This includes the Nook Touch and the Nook Color, as well as related accessories. The retailer already sells various eReaders from Aluratek, Pandigital and Toshiba, but not the Amazon Kindle or the Kobo Touch (which competes directly with

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  HarperCollins Chief Digital Officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi: ‘Essential’ for Publishers to Take Risks

  616 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Like most publishing companies, HarperCollins is trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the new book industry landscape which is increasingly being altered by e-books and digital publishing. Unlike most other publishers, HarperCollins is turning to publishing industry outsiders for leadership. Two of its c-level executives