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Bookseller Gains Business Insights Across Sales Channels With New Data Warehouse
White Papers Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, operates 821 stores in 50 states. To help improve its business operations and respond better to customer needs, the company needed new business intelligence tools that could access information faster...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Can a Bookseller With a 125-Year Heritage Transition to the Fast-Paced E-Marketplace?
White Papers The giant bookseller - with revenues of $2.8 billion in 1997 - faced a formidable hurdle in moving to the Web nearly two years after its primary competitor. This new business model presented major technology challenges to Barnes & Noble, and the...
[August 10, 2007, 11:23]
Shut Amazon down, say privacy groups
News Online bookseller Amazon.co.uk has admitted it is unable to comply with UK data protection laws, according to civil rights campaign group Privacy International. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a research centre in Washington is...
[December 5, 2000, 8:13]
Waterstone's closes book on Amazon
News Bookseller Waterstone's has won approval from observers for ending its arrangement with e-commerce giant Amazon. He admitted the move would put Waterstone's in direct competition with its erstwhile partner, but expressed confidence that the chain...
[May 10, 2006, 13:10]
Blogger axed by Waterstone's
News Joe Gordon, who has been running his Woolamaloo Gazette satirical newsletter since 1992, was dismissed last week after working for the bookseller for 11 years, following a disciplinary hearing. The ex-bookseller, who ran a book group for the shop...
[January 11, 2005, 11:55]
Little shop of horrors
Leader Minutes later, there was a crash as Crusher Higgs, the bookseller's apprentice, put his boot through the grocer's plate-glass door. Mr Arthur was a bookseller, Mr Brian was a grocer, and both were much loved by the villagers.
[October 24, 2006, 17:45]
BN.com to print-on-demand
News The bookseller says it hopes to have an additional 500,000 titles available within five years. The printers the bookseller is purchasing from IBM are able to print out over 800 pages per minute and can create both hardcover and paperback titles.
[December 13, 1999, 13:52]
Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead
News Online bookseller Abebooks.com also is considering dropping Oracle because of its high cost. Abebooks uses Oracle's 8i standard edition and wanted to upgrade to the more expensive enterprise edition because it would allow the bookseller to...
[October 16, 2001, 10:49]
techTrader: W H Smith hoping everything clicks
News W H Smith is currently the second-largest online bookseller in the UK, with about 20 percent of the market; Amazon.co.uk is largest and Bertelsmann's heavily-promoted BOL.com is third. W H Smith Group, the bookstore chain, says it is after 30...
[October 29, 1999, 12:25]
Amazon UK lands Borders deal
News High-street bookseller Borders has launched a transactional Web site running on Amazon's e-commerce platform, building on the two firms' existing relationship in the US. Announced on Wednesday, the deal adds to similar relationships Amazon.co.uk...
[October 27, 2004, 13:00]
TOP-KNIGA Re-Engineers Business Processes to Drive Performance and Support Company Growth
White Papers TOP-KNIGA is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Russia - operating more than 450 stores in 180 cities across nine time zones. The challenges were to create an effective and transparent management information system to help TOP-KNIGA...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Amazon sues Barnesandnoble.com over 1-Click
News Amazon.com said it has filed suit against rival bookseller Barnesandnoble.com, saying it illegally copied a shopping feature on Amazon's site. The suit, filed late Thursday in US District Court in Seattle, alleges patent infringement and seeks an...
[October 25, 1999, 14:56]
IndieBound
Downloads Browse indie bookseller recommendation lists (The Indie Next List, The Kids Indie Next List) and bestseller lists (The Indie Bestseller Lists), Search for books from a comprehensive database of in-print titles.
[April 19, 2009, 6:31]
WHSmith Sets Up Shop on the Net
White Papers In April of that year it acquired The Internet Bookshop, a small independent online bookseller for £9.4m.The next step was to add suitable content to the site. WH Smith launched its first branded web site in January 1998.
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
Amazon offers cheap shop space
News Continuing its metamorphosis from online bookseller to retailing giant, Amazon.com announced Wednesday a program that will allow small businesses and even consumers to inexpensively set up shops on its high-traffic Web site.
[September 30, 1999, 11:00]
Amazon loses one-click patent injunction
News Online bookseller Amazon.com has been denied an injunction against rival barnesandboble.com for using a process that it has controversially patented, "single-click purchasing". The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has determined...
[March 9, 2001, 14:17]
Borders founder hawks old magazines online
News Magazines are leaving money on the table through unsold archives, and Louis Borders, the man behind bookseller Borders and dot-com flameout Webvan, says he aims to fix that. Borders' newest venture, KeepMedia, which launches Monday, is an online...
[July 28, 2003, 11:47]
BT and WH Smith sign Internet deal
News Telecommunications top dog BT (quote: BT.A) and high-street bookseller WH Smith clinched a mutually beneficial Internet deal Thursday making WH Smith Online principal books retailer on all BT's Internet portal interests.
[January 27, 2000, 11:19]
Amazon.com, New York Times settle best-seller dispute
News Amazon.com has settled a legal dispute with the New York Times over whether the bookseller can use the newspaper's best seller list. Amazon launched a promotion in May offering 50 percent off books on the list.
[August 10, 1999, 10:15]
Barnesandnoble invests in MightyWords publisher
News Online bookseller Barnesandnoble.com has shelled out $20m(£13.15m) for an equity stake in MightyWords, an electronic publisher of short works. MightyWords specializes in content that is considered too short for a book and too long to be read...
[June 7, 2000, 13:27]
