Barnes & Nobel released some financial data yesterday for their most recent fiscal quarter, which ended on 29 January 2011. Income was up 7% last quarter across the company, with brick and mortar stores showing an average increase of 7.3%. Online sales were a spectacular success and increased 64% over the same quarter a year [...]
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Borders sales down in 2nd quarter
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) today reported results for its second quarter ended July 31, 2010. Highlights include: Second quarter sales were $526.1 million, down 11.5% from the same period a year ago, with comparable store sales declining by 6.8%. Borders.com sales increased 56.2% over the prior year, to $15.5 million. [...]
Global e-reader sales topped 1.3m last quarter
July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Digitimes are reporting: A total of 1.35 million e-book readers were shipped to the global market in the second quarter of 2010, 33.2% fewer than the originally projected 2.02 million units, chiefly because shipments of new models were delayed to the third quarter, according to Digitimes Research. … Barnes & Noble took the leading position [...]
Less than a quarter of people will pay for news online
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion, surveys & polls
Paid Content UK ran a survey asking people about the paywall that the Times of London will soon have. They have posted the results of the survey, and I’m intrigued. They found that 23% of respondents were somewhat likely (13%) to very likely (4%) to pay for access. Paid Content is a lot more optimistic [...]
Ebooks made up 9% of Simon & Schuster sales last quarter
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Simon & Schuster reported $12 million in digital publishing revenue for Q1 yesterday, which is roughly a 233 percent increase over the previous quarter’s $3.6 million. Included in the $12m are sales of stand-alone apps, e-books, and audio downloads. S&S has six paid iPhone apps. Let’s put this in perspective. Ebooks were about 3% of [...]
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