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  Profits are down at Indigo Books

  1290 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...

• New CEO for New York Times, Digital Innovation a Priority, E-Books on the Agenda?

  672 readers [Press Release]  Mark Thompson to Become Next President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company Thompson to Focus on Growing Business, Digital Innovation and International Expansion; He will be Appointed to the Times Company Board The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today that BBC Director-General Mark Thompson will become its next president and

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  Books-a-Million & Indigo Join B&N In Amazon Print Boycott

  549 readersBooks-a-Million and Chapters Indigo have joined Barnes & Noble in boycotting the selling of print books published by Amazon’s publishing imprints. Indigo vice-president Janet Eger told The Globe and Mail: “In our view Amazon’s actions are not in the long-term interests of the reading public or the publishing and book retailing industry, globally. Indigo Founder and

• F+W Media Hires Amazon Exec as VP of E-Commerce

  819 readers PRESS RELEASE: (Digital Book World is owned and operated by F+W Media) F+W Media Appoints eCommerce Vice President Lucas Hilbert Joins Company After 10 Years with Amazon   Ft. Collins, CO – July 23, 2012 – F+W Media today announced the hiring of Lucas Hilbert, formerly Senior Product Manager, Marketing and Merchandising at Amazon, to the position of Vice

• DBW Parent F+W Media Names Jim Ogle Chief Operating Officer

  98 readers [Press Release] F+W Media Names Jim Ogle Chief Operating Officer NEW YORK – January 3, 2012 – David Nussbaum, F+W Media Chairman & CEO announced today the promotion of Jim Ogle to Chief Operations officer and Chief Financial Officer. As COO & CFO, Ogle has responsibility for all financial functions of the Company, as well as all

• Indigo Announces Agreement for Kobo to be Acquired by Rakuten

  1356 readers TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2011, 2011 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Indigo Books & Music Inc. ("Indigo"), Canada's largest book, gift and specialty toy retailer, and Rakuten, Inc. (jasdaq:4755) ("Rakuten"), one of the world's leading Internet service companies, announced today that Rakuten has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding

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  Bay Area News Group pulls a Netflix, decides against its own controversial rebranding plan; launches Community Media Labs initiative featuring open newsrooms

  1170 readersThe president of the Bay Area News Group said today that the company had reconsidered its idea of rebranding its local newspapers and will instead retain "the majority" of its current newspaper titles. After carefully considering the feedback we received after we announced our plan to rebrand our newspapers, we decided to embrace a strategy that

• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Appoints Mary Collinane First Ever Chief Content Officer

  445 readers[Press Release] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Names Mary Cullinane as Company’s First Chief Content Officer Former Head of Innovation for Microsoft Education to Lead Content Production and Innovation Efforts Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the appointment of Mary Cullinane to Chief Content Officer (CCO) and Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Charged with spearheading the

• Michael Pietsch to Succeed David Young as CEO of Hachette Book Group

  275 readers After seven years as CEO of Hachette Book Group, David Young will be leaving the post to return to the UK. He is being replaced by Michael Pietsch, currently the publisher of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette, effective April 1, 2013. Hachette also promoted chief operating officer Ken Michaels to the role

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

  762 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