Books-A-Million, the second-largest bookstore chain in the USA, has rolled out same-day delivery to all its stores with Walmart GoLocal. Last year in September, the bookstore introduced same- and next-day delivery across 231 locations countrywide with the help of the Walmart white-label GoLocal “delivery-as-a-service” platform. Pete Zophy, senior vice president of … [Read more...] about Books-A-Million Expands Same-Day Delivery with Walmart
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Books-A-Million Announces Same- and Next-Day Delivery
Image credit: yahoo On National "Read a Book" Day (September 6), Books-A-Million introduced same and next-day delivery to customers across 231 locations nationwide. This monumental step was launched by partnering with Walmart GoLocal. Here are all the Updates: Books-A-Million is collaborating with Walmart GoLocal, which is Walmart's white-label, delivery-as-a-service … [Read more...] about Books-A-Million Announces Same- and Next-Day Delivery
Bookstores Are Dying…And It’s Certainly Taking Them Long Enough
Facetiously speaking, it took an estimated four minutes from the launch of the first-ever Kindle and Amazon bookstore for someone to whine that it would be the death of bookstores. The industry has been incessantly proclaiming "the end of bookstores" for years now, and if articles like this one are any indication, they're still not done announcing the end is nigh. Well, … [Read more...] about Bookstores Are Dying…And It’s Certainly Taking Them Long Enough
Espresso Book Machine Streamlining a Subset of Self-Publishing
The Espresso Book Machine is a kiosk-style printing press that stood to revolutionize both book printing and book selling, at least at the beginning. These stand-alone machines were envisioned to virtually replace bookshops, meaning the customer of the future would enter a significantly smaller retail space that was completely void of any printed material, select the book from … [Read more...] about Espresso Book Machine Streamlining a Subset of Self-Publishing
Barnes and Noble & Books-A-Million Stop Selling Marvel Comics
Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million have confirmed to Good e-Reader that they have stopped carrying single issues of Marvel Comics. You might still find single issues at some of the smaller stores or in more rural areas, but it has been mandated that stores cannot order new issues. Barnes and Noble has a flagship store in Union Square, in New York City. This is the … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble & Books-A-Million Stop Selling Marvel Comics
Shareholder Sues Books-A-Million to Prevent a Takeover
A few weeks ago we reported that the majority shareholder of Books-A-Million wanted to take the company private. The Anderson family offered to buy shares at a premium price and valued the company at 48 million dollars. Today an irate shareholder filed a lawsuit in California to prevent the company from going private. The Shareholders Foundation is a legal monitoring service … [Read more...] about Shareholder Sues Books-A-Million to Prevent a Takeover
Books-A-Million Receives Offer to Take Company Private
Books-A-Million Inc received a proposal from the Anderson family, who controls over 53% of the company, to take it private today. Recently displaced CEO Clyde Anderson made an offer of $3.05 per share in cash for Books-A-Million, which has a premium of 20 percent. This would value the entire company at $48.8 million. Books-a-Million became the United States' second-largest … [Read more...] about Books-A-Million Receives Offer to Take Company Private
Books-A-Million Proclaims NO Amazon Book Titles in Their Stores
Barnes and Noble made waves earlier this week when they issued statements that they would not carry any Amazon published books in their stores. It seems this proclamation resonated with the nation's second largest book seller Books-A-Million. The company today officially announced that they also would not carry any of the books that Amazon publishes. Books-A-Million is … [Read more...] about Books-A-Million Proclaims NO Amazon Book Titles in Their Stores
Bluefire Productions becomes Authorized Reseller for Adobe Content Server and New Vendor ID
Bluefire Productions have now been accorded the status of an authorized reseller of Adobe Content Server 4 and Adobe Vendor ID service. With this, the New York based company that specialize in providing user experience design and development services to the top ranking global technology firms have joined an elite club of a select few to have the said distinction. "Adobe Content … [Read more...] about Bluefire Productions becomes Authorized Reseller for Adobe Content Server and New Vendor ID
Books-A-Million Reader from Bluefire brings e-books for mobile devices
Books-A-Million, Inc., the third largest book retailer in the United States have now joined forces with Bluefire Productions LLC to make good use of their extensive e-book library resources. What Bluefire Productions have actually done is they have developed an e-book reader application - Books-A-Million (BAM) Reader that would easily connect to the wide variety of books … [Read more...] about Books-A-Million Reader from Bluefire brings e-books for mobile devices