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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.

Hardcover and Paperback Sales are Surging in 2020

Print sales in the United States are enjoying robust sales in the first six months of 2020. Hardcover and Paperbacks increased by 2.8% and sold 322.1 million copies.  Considering most bookstores were only open for a limited time this year, the vast majority were placed via online ordering.

Indigo Books has reopened 130 Bookstores in Canada

Indigo Books have been shuttered since early March and they are reopening…

WH Smith revenues declined 85% last month

WH Smith and Waterstones are two of the largest bookselling chains in…

Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy has just died

Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy has just died of a heart…

Italian bookstores are going to reopen

Italy has been completely ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, but that is…

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…