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Want to know about the business side of things from booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Chapters/Indigo and Waterstone’s? We have the latest coverage and industry news.

Introducing the Good e-Reader Bookstore

The Good e-Reader Bookstore is your online destination for all of the…

Indigo Books lays off 5,200 employees

Indigo is the largest bookselling chain in Canada and they closed all…

Barnes and Noble closes over 400 bookstores

Barnes and Noble currently operates around 620 bookstores in the United States…

What Publishers Are Doing To Help During Covid-19

The pandemic of Covid-19 is disrupting the entire bookselling industry. Major publishers…

Ordering books from Amazon will now take longer to dealiver

Amazon has announced that it is prioritizing household and cleaning essentials over…

Barnes and Noble is in a precarious position and layoffs are inevitable

Barnes and Noble is in a precarious position due to the Coronavirus.…

Print sales are crashing due to Coronavirus

Thousands of bookstores are closing all over the US due to the…

Indigo is closing all of their Canadian Bookstores

Indigo is closing all of their bookstores across Canada until March 27th…

Macmillan, Hachette and HaperCollins pull out of the London Book Fair

The London Book Fair vows to continue, dispute almost every major publisher…

Amazon, S&S, Ingram and Overdrive will not attend London Book Fair

This week the London Book Fair said it will continue to run,…

Waterstones is going to start increasing employee wages in April

Waterstones CEO James Daunt, who is also the CEO of Barnes and…

Ebooks account for 7.7% of Hachettes Revenue in 2019

Hachette has just announced that in 2019 the publishing company generated €2.38…

Ingram Lightning Source is going to remove thousands of books

Ingram Lightning Source is a huge distributor of content written by indie…

London Book Fair will continue to go on, despite COVID-19

The London Book Fair is one of the largest publishing events in…

Indigo Books and Music continues to bleed money

Chapters Indigo did not have a good holiday season, which is the…

Bookstore sales plummeted 5.7% in 2019

Bookstore sales in the United States fell 5.7% in 2019 and the…

Barnes and Noble is not going change anything for the Holiday Season

Barnes and Noble is going to be marketing their books and setting…

Indigo CEO slams Amazon as anti-competitive

Chapters Indigo CEO Heather Reisman slammed Amazon for being anti-competitive on so…

2 Polish publishers launch Inverso, an audiobook and ebook store

Two of the largest Polish publishers have just launched an online bookstore…

September was a great month for audiobooks, ebooks and print sales

This past September was a great month for books. Overall publisher revenue…

Audible and B&N Lawsuits making waves in the digital publishing world

There are a myriad of lawsuits currently transpiring and could decide the…

Here is a comprehensive list of the bestselling books of the year

There are three months until Christmas and publishers are hoping to capitalize…

Indigo Books is launching Plum Plus subscription program

Indigo Books and Music is the largest bookselling chain in Canada and…