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The Battle for Bookstores: Who’s their ideal customer now?
I’d bookmarked several articles this week waxing philosophical about the fate of the bookstore, and it seems I am not the only one who noticed this trend: Laura Hazard Owen did a nice round-up for...
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What’s Indigo up to? And what, exactly, is Indigotech?
Hot on the heels of Kobo’s price drop on the Arc, I was at my local Indigo (a major Canadian bookstore chain) this afternoon to find the bargain books section shrunken, the fitness books crammed in...
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A First Look at Indigo Tech!
Indigo Tech is open for business! I snapped these pics today at my local store, and it’s about what I expected: a fancier Kobo kiosk, iPads and more! The various wall displays have headphones,...
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Indie bookstores doing fine: Now stop demonizing Amazon?
Salon, rarely the most Amazon-friendly of venues, has just run another story on the state of the indie bookstore sector in the U.S., and found surprisingly positive trends. And naturally, being Salon,...
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Amazon to experiment with brick-and-mortar store in New York City
Remember when Apple opened its first retail store and everyone thought they were crazy? It’s déjà vu all over again. The Wall Street Journal (article paywalled; google the headline to read) cites the...
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Whither Foyles?
Foyles, the famous London independent bookstore, has announced trading results that show it dipping into a loss for the 2014 financial year – albeit on increased turnover. Which prompts the question...
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Indie bookstores off the critical list – who would know?
An article in The Daily Beast, “Indie Bookstores Are Finally Not Dying,” draws attention to the by-now-just-a-wee-bit-well-known fact that indie bookstores as a whole are not doing so very badly in the...
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Ultimate bookstore minimalism: The Japanese bookshop that sells just one...
Here’s a literary antidote to pre-Christmas consumer frenzy. This Japanese bookstore, Morioka Shoten Ginza in Tokyo’s chic Ginza district, stocks only one title at a time, in a single room. Takram...
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Did the New Yorker call the Amazon bookstore right?
Thomas de Monchaux, who appears to write extensively on architectural and cultural topics for the New Yorker, has penned a long analysis there of the design and layout of the new Amazon Books...
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A Tale of Two Bookstores, or: How to use tech to boost print
Sad news for Manhattan bibliophiles is that St. Mark’s Bookshop, an East Village institution at 136 East Third Street which claims to be “the oldest independent book store in Manhattan which is still...
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Hugh Howey can’t get Amazon bookstores quickly enough
Despite the fear and loathing reported in TeleRead at the prospect of Amazon bookstores, not everyone feels the same way. At the opposite extreme, we have Hugh Howey, self-publishing success story and...
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Amazon retail push to rival Walmart headcount
A detailed business report in the Seattle Times shows just how large-scale Amazon’s retail footprint is growing. It also indicates something about prospects for the Seattle-headquartered giant’s...
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