Barnes & Noble is predicting its sales of e-books to increase from $250 million in 2010 to $2 billion in 2015. During the same time period, it expects its sales of print books to decline from $3.6 billion to $2.8 billion. Nevertheless the overall projected increase of $1.2 billion in sales represents a 33 percent jump. Barnes & Noble is projecting growth not only in e-book sales but also in e-reading devices and the materials that can be read on them, such as magazines and newspapers, and also apps.
Currently Barnes & Noble is the only bricks and mortar book selling chain operating profitably. Infamously Borders closed all its stores and went out of business this year. Less well known is the fact that Books A Million has also closed stores and lost $10 million over the past nine months. ...
http://authorsadvocate.net/2011/11/25/like-universe-book-publishing-industry-expanding.aspx?ref=rss
Currently Barnes & Noble is the only bricks and mortar book selling chain operating profitably. Infamously Borders closed all its stores and went out of business this year. Less well known is the fact that Books A Million has also closed stores and lost $10 million over the past nine months. ...
http://authorsadvocate.net/2011/11/25/like-universe-book-publishing-industry-expanding.aspx?ref=rss
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