Shelf Awareness reports that “‘To satisfy the public’s craving for financial advice,’ Borders has created front-of-store displays in all its superstores that feature finance and personal-finance titles;” Barnes & Noble is doing something similar.
Borders’ business book buyer Michael D’Agostini lists these five as most popular with customers:
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy money, high rollers, and [...]
I won’t be here so I’m letting you know now that the next Oprah book — the first since her choice of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth — will be announced on Friday, 19 Sept. Per Yahoo! News.
11 Sept: Speculation about which book it might be at Give ‘Em What They Want.
Tom Shone, in Intelligent Life’s Summer 2008 issue, laments bestsellers lists in the UK and the U.S. The NYT bestsellers list looks pretty erudite compared with the UK’s top sellers, which consist mostly of books by celebrities and reality-show has-beens, until we realise that the NYT shunted off the self-help and advice books to another [...]
A bookstore owner in Portsmouth, NH, arrested Monday for writing bad checks, charged customers a $5 ‘browsing fee’ for the privilege of looking at books in his Antiquarian bookstore on Route 1. He also assaulted and insulted customers. More at Seacoastonline.
The browsing fee seemed like a crazy business strategy to me — charging people for [...]
Book-selling giant Barnes & Noble, Inc. booksellers is considering buying its somewhat smaller rival, book-selling giant Borders Group, per the Wall Street Journal (sub. req), which also commented on the same rumour in November in its Deal Journal. Borders indicated in March that it was struggling and might be willing to be sold. The WSJ [...]