The End of the Beginning of the Future of Bookstores
I have the great good fortune of living in Cambridge, Mass., a city where there are still quite a few fine bookstores. There’s the Harvard Bookstore, Grolier (dedicated to poetry) the Harvard COOP...
View ArticleA SWOT Team for Indie Bookstores (part 1)
The story of the end of bookstores is an old one, almost as old as bookstores themselves, I would bet. And while it has always been a miserable way to make a living, the fundamental business model of...
View ArticleA SWOT Team for Indie Bookstores (part 2)
Continuing with our SWOT analysis of physical bookstores, we now move onto Opportunities and Threats. Unlike Strengths and Weakness, which are largely internal to an organization, Opportunities and...
View Article“That’s New to Me”—Book Marketers Please Take Note
In a recent post, Mike Shatzkin took note of how some publishers were reshaping their publishing lists around their core strengths and strategic vision. Along the way, Mike offers his view on how the...
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The “Value Proposition” of Publishers in the Digital Age
Just recently, Bowker published a report that offers a fascinating picture of the migration of book sales to online retailers. (Bowker is the industry’s key source of bibliographic data and market...
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Can Indie Bookstores Matter?
The book business has always struck me as a bit bipolar, prone to bouts of dire pessimism followed by flights of exaggerated optimism. Publishing Perspectives just recently reported on a lengthy...
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