Interesting News in Publishing – November 2020

 

Interesting News in Publishing
November 2020

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AMAZON 

Publishers report incoming shipment delays at Amazon
Publishers are reporting that shipments have been turned away by Amazon’s warehouses in recent weeks, at the busiest time of the year for new …
The Bookseller

Amazon-challenging online book retailer fast-tracks UK launch
With 150 independent bookshops and publishers onboard, the retailer is looking to sign up 200 booksellers by the end of the year. Publishing partners …
Yahoo Sports

BANTAM BOOKS

Fred Klein, Who Helped Build Bantam Books, Dies at 97
Fred Klein, who helped make Bantam Books a major force in mass market paperback publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 22. He was …
Publishers Weekly

BARNES & NOBLE

Daunt outlines plan for Barnes & Noble
In the US, Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO James Daunt has outlined his strategy for the bookselling chain in a virtual Q&A with Book Industry Study Group …
Books+Publishing

How Barnes & Noble is coping with COVID
Barnes & Noble has long had an e-commerce website where books could be … Barnes & Noble leveraged Movable Ink’s dynamic messaging software. … and the bricks and mortar strategy needs to have digital layered into it to …
MarTech Today

Bookstore Giant Barnes & Noble hit by Cyberattack
The company is the proud operator of the Nook Digital, which is the division of the company dealing with eBooks and the e-Reader platform. Last …
TheDigitalHacker

Barnes and Noble Nook Services are still not restored
Digital books are still not showing up in users libraries on Nook e-readers and apps. None of their NOOK newspaper or magazine services are …
Good E-Reader

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