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Universities Launch E-book Experiment
News MBS Textbook Exchange, which provides inventory and accounting services as well as wholesale book distribution, developed the card system with input from the publishers and a handful of bookstores, hoping that it and its customers could avoid...
[August 10, 2005, 18:10]
US Report: Would You Curl Up With An E-book?
News Hustling shelf space in bookstores won't be worth anything soon. For instance, printers won't be making the books, truckers won't be shipping them, and bookstores won't have to arrange for shelf space.
[October 26, 1998, 10:43]
MAS 200 Scores Points With The Game
White Papers Team spirit is serious business for The Game, America's number one headwear brand in college bookstores and large sports apparel chains. They selected MAS 200 as their accounting system, and have been using it ever since to run the entire business.
[October 11, 2003, 0:00]
Indigo Cures Its Supply Chain Blues With SAP And IBM
White Papers Indigo is a Canadian company and the largest book retailer the country, operating bookstores in all provinces under the names Indigo Books Music & more, Chapters, The World's Biggest Bookstore and Coles.
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Google: Semantic Web Must Overcome Incompetence
Talkback '.the example of bookstores initially withholding information on stock levels and purchase price but then breaking them as others did. And for those English speakers among us?
[July 19, 2006, 18:00]
Taking Care Of Customers And Enhancing Sales With A Customer-Centric Approach
White Papers As one of the largest resource suppliers for Christian churches and bookstores in the United States, LifeWay Christian Resources needed a comprehensive corporate solution to facilitate effective internal communication and to better serve its vast...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
Remote Wireless Computing: Expanding The Productivity Of Mobile Workers
White Papers With new hotspot locations popping up every day in cafes, bookstores, restaurants, etc.public wireless LAN access can be an important resource for any employee working away from the office. Think public wireless, LANs or "hotspots" are just for...
[August 28, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Bookpages Aims To Be UK's Amazon.com
News Bookpages is registering 28 per cent growth per month and is on target to make £600,000 for this year in revenues, putting it way ahead of High Street bookstores such as Dillons and Waterstones which are only now tapping the Web for sales.
[September 10, 1997, 8:00]
US Airports To Get Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News Coffee shops and bookstores have a decided consumer appeal. T-Mobile USA said on Wednesday that it would set up wireless "hot spots" for business travellers in airport lounges across the United States.
[October 30, 2002, 15:54]
Lethargic UK Firms Risk Competitive Edge
News Brian Finch, finance director explained why e-commerce is not yet a feasible option: "All the online bookstores, as far as I am aware, are losing money. Nearly 83 percent of British companies believe e-commerce will be crucial to future...
[December 17, 1998, 11:47]
Antenna To Boost Wireless Security
News Wi-Fi, the most common wireless technology today, is hugely popular for creating networks with a radius of about 300 feet for home use and in a few public places such as bookstores, cafes and airports.
[November 11, 2002, 16:12]
Wi-Fi And Fries?
News Earlier this week, Barnes & Noble said it is working with Cometa Networks to install hot-spot networks in about 650 bookstores by September. Signs at a McDonald's in downtown San Francisco cordially beckon customers to surf the Web using its...
[March 12, 2004, 14:25]
Clock Ticking For ISP VoIP-tapping
News In a footnote, however, the FCC suggests that its regulations "are not intended" to cover hotels, coffee shops and bookstores that provide Wi-Fi service. Broadband providers and Internet phone services have until spring 2007 to follow a new and...
[September 27, 2005, 10:35]
US Report: Clinton's Web Plans Hang In Balance After Summits
News When the 'Steal this Book' campaign was raging in the '60s, people didn't say the bookstores should be shut down," Irving said, noting that the Kinkel incident has prompted calls for censorship of bomb sites.
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
Google: Semantic Web Must Overcome Incompetence
News To illustrate his stance, he used the example of bookstores initially withholding information on stock levels and purchase price but then breaking them as others did. A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a...
[July 19, 2006, 10:05]
COPA Backers Slam Ruling, Urge Appeal
News The owner of a chain of gay-themed bookstores who was also a plaintiff in the case, Norman Laurila, said he was relieved by the ruling. The anti-pornography group Enough is Enough blamed COPA's latest legal defeat on the lead plaintiff in the case...
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
Brit Cracks Microsoft's E-book Software
News According to Microsoft, 13,000 book titles in its Reader format are commercially available, distributed by bookstores such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. A British programmer has released software online that is said to dismantle the anticopying...
[January 9, 2003, 10:24]
Corel Knocks Microsoft Off HP Desktops
News Possibly to combat this trend, Microsoft has been selling the academic version of Office XP, once typically only found in campus bookstores and educational outlets, in Target, WalMart and other large stores, according to analysts.
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
A Year Ago: Star Wars Fans Online In Line
News Readers who don't mind missing out on Star Wars' special effects can skip the line and get in on the movie two weeks early, when bookstores get copies of the adaptation of "Phantom Menace" written by fantasy writer Terry Brooks.
[April 12, 2000, 7:00]
