"We hope to stage the meetings in independent bookshops, not in London but around the country in places where our readership is strong, like Tunbridge Wells," said the Telegraph's Gaby Wood. Six entrants will be selected as book club members. Readers will compete to participate by submitting a written explanation for why they should be chosen and a sample review. And even if it wasn't horribly bad sales that did the latest raft of bookstores in, maybe that's the lesson that can be taken away from all this: that bookstores are a privilege, not a right, and we should treasure what we have while we have it, because things can be snatched away so very, very quickly." - The Daily Telegraph will sponsor a book club "with a regular readers group holding meetings in independent bookshops around the country," the reported. And it's a decision that rather depresses me." Eng also observed that "there are still several used bookstores and a few resilient sellers of new books in the Metro Vancouver area, but their presence isn't something we can take for granted anymore. "I have a great love of e-books as well as dead tree media (I am a bookseller, after all), and I'm sure there's room for both of them to coexist in the years to come, but Vancouver as a city (with grossly disproportionate commercial rents) seems to have consciously or unconsciously made up its mind about the role of booksellers in its boundaries. "I'm not sure what the future holds for Vancouver," Eng wrote. On Cory Doctorow's, the author reprinted in full a letter he received from bookseller Chris Eng of Sophia Books, Vancouver, B.C., which is set to close its doors at the end of May after 35 years in business. "This is a very different concept than what was in here before," Weske said. The chain closed its location a year ago because of disappointing sales," the Grand Rapids Press reported. Of the remaining books, around 60% is determined centrally, with the balance being picked by staff." - Ed Weske has opened a new independent bookstore, Common Ground, Gaines Township, Mich., in the "space once occupied by his former employer, Kregel Parable Christian Stores. At 'new' Waterstone's one third of these titles are now chosen by store staff. Of all the books that Waterstone's sells, around a third are 'front,' or promoted, titles. Power has-to a significant degree-been devolved back to the stores. This was particularly the case when it came to '3-for-2' book promotions. The Telegraph reported that "under 'old' Waterstone's, almost all book titles sold in its stores were chosen centrally. bookstore chain Waterstone's has revised its inventory control model and seen positive results from the change. has added new features to its Kindle for PC app that enable users to edit notes and marks, experience full-screen reading mode, change the background color and control the brightness of the screen. B&N said details of the royalty model and compensation process will be available in the coming weeks. You can read it in 30 minutes." - This summer, Barnes & Noble will launch PubIt!, through which independent publishers and self-publishing writers can distribute their works digitally via bn.com. It's the equivalent of buying a couple of songs online. What this does is offer an affordable entry point into Steve's world. "Realistically, it would be hard to get something like this in print," said Matt Schwartz, v-p of digital marketing and strategy for Random House. Berry's ninth novel, The Emperor's Tomb, which goes on sale Nov. Ballantine hopes to "attract new readers while whetting the appetite of fans for Mr. Ballantine Books is also publishing a "literary appetizer" in the form of digital story The Balkan Escape by Steve Berry, which will be released in September for $1.99 and feature one of his established characters, Cassiopeia Vitt. Kagawa's February debut novel, The Iron King, and her second teen novel, The Iron Daughter, which goes on sale July 27." "The purpose is to keep her audience interested while building their excitement for the next book," said Malle Vallik, director of digital content for the company, which will sell Winter's Passage for $2.99 beginning in late August. The 15,000-word novella will serve as a link between Ms. The Wall Street Journal reported that on June 1, Harlequin "intends to give away e-book copies of Julie Kagawa's Winter's Passage. Ballantine Books and Harlequin Teen will issue short, standalone digital works intended to serve as "bridges" to upcoming novels.
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