A Year Ago: Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News Online booksellers have defended their right to sell race-hate literature to countries in which it is banned, after a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi organisation called for a halt to the sale of books such as Mein Kampf in Germany.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organisation that monitors anti-Semitism, became enraged when it discovered that German citizens can directly order banned material from online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com...
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
Sapient and IBM Introduce Targeted Marketing, Greater Control and Flexibility to Barnes & Noble College Booksellers With New Commerce Site
White Papers Sapient is a global services provider that helps clients innovate in the areas of marketing, business operations and technology. This IBM Premier Business Partner distinguishes itself by delivering innovative and unique solutions to the innovative...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Eccentric book collector hoards £100,000 of online books
News An eccentric British book collector is alleged to have amassed £100,000 worth of antique literature from online booksellers without actually paying them anything. Booksellers across the world were apparently duped into believing the man was a...
[November 4, 1999, 10:52]
Stephen King rewrites e-book biz
News The response from King's fans stunned booksellers. The book was offered for $2.50 (£1.55), but Barnesandnoble.com and other booksellers were giving it away free on the first download day, which may have led to some of the crush.
[March 17, 2000, 10:11]
US Report: Would you curl up with an e-book?
News For online booksellers, e-books mean instant sales, Brown said: They make so much sense. In the end, if Softbook and others can turn the consumer on to buying bits, rather than atoms, the publishers and online booksellers could win big.
[October 26, 1998, 10:43]
Amazon defends used book sales
News In the letter, a copy of which was posted to a usenet group, Bezos asks booksellers to write to the Author's Guild "explaining how the sale of used books actually helps the entire book industry. While he encouraged the used booksellers to be...
[April 16, 2002, 14:01]
WHSmith Sets Up Shop on the Net
White Papers During that year a number of other UK booksellers including Heffers, Blackwells and Waterstone's also launched transactional web sites. WH Smith launched its first branded web site in January 1998. WH Smith knew that it had to act quickly to take...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
IndieBound
Downloads IndieBound is a community supportive movement begun by the independent bookseller members of the American Booksellers Association. It brings together booksellers, readers, indie retailers, local business alliances, and anyone else with a passionate...
[April 19, 2009, 6:31]
Growing pains for Amazon's used goods
News Dozens of used-goods merchants, often just individuals moonlighting as booksellers, complained on the e-tail site's discussion boards about such things as not being able to list new items or access their accounts.
[April 23, 2002, 15:02]
Tags track Japanese shoppers
News By placing tag readers on the shelves of bookstores, the new system allows booksellers to gain information such as the range of books a shopper has browsed, how many times a particular title was picked up and even the length of time spent flipping...
[May 8, 2003, 11:16]
Lethargic UK firms risk competitive edge
News Mayer Booksellers of Welwyn Garden City is a good example of a small UK business that understands the theory behind e-commerce but has yet to embrace it. Nearly 83 percent of British companies believe e-commerce will be crucial to future...
[December 17, 1998, 11:47]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The Times reports on a revolutionary 'virtual' call centre technology, The Telegraph says traditional booksellers can still win in the Web Wars, while The Economist reports on a new search engine that may become the next "Big Thing" on the Net.
[June 22, 1998, 16:21]
Amazon.com, New York Times settle best-seller dispute
News The paper uses sales data from booksellers to produce the list. 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...
[August 10, 1999, 10:15]
Amazon sees value in used goods
News The move has angered some booksellers and publishers who say it undercuts new book sales. Amazon.com is expanding its policy of paying commissions to its affiliate Web sites to include the sale of used goods.
[May 31, 2002, 10:35]
Scary! Stephen King e-book pirated
News While the monetary losses were likely negligible -- the novella was being given away for free at many booksellers -- the greater concern is that the piracy could scare off authors and publishers from this technology.
[March 30, 2000, 9:18]
Freeserve makes e-commerce gains
News In a separate report, high-street booksellers have found profits hit by online book sales, with both Waterstone's and Ottakar's reporting significant losses. Maybe there is money to be made on the Web after all.
[September 29, 1999, 16:36]
British Library lists rare books on Amazon
News It is also possible for booksellers to list their wares through Amazon's "zShops", which do not depend on Amazon's catalogue. The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to...
[November 24, 2003, 17:00]
Barclays launches Indigo Square commerce site
News Customers might also find some categories a bit sparsely-stocked to begin with: book partners, for example, do not include any of the major online booksellers such as bol.com, waterstones.co.uk or amazon.co.uk.
[November 3, 2000, 12:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Perhaps fortunately, the predicted swilling contest between the publishers and some booksellers didn't kick off and I escaped with my liver. Monday 12/05/2003 As I'm at the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh later this week, I took myself up to that fair...
[May 16, 2003, 17:59]
