Indigo directors resign and former CEO retires
One of them said she was resigning because she had lost confidence in board leadership.
One of them said she was resigning because she had lost confidence in board leadership.
The ABA says it added 173 members last year and increased bookstore businesses by 9 percent to a grand total of 2,185.
CEO James Daunt discusses the necessarily slow journey to improve, store by store, after the chain was run by “numpties.”
In a profile of James Daunt, it’s revealed that the chain now has returns down to 7 percent from its previous average of 30 percent.
According to Circana BookScan, 2023 print sales are down by 2 percent in the US versus last year—but running 15 percent ahead of 2019.
Kobo Plus is so far available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, the UK, and the US.
Spotify users in Canada can now purchase audiobooks through the service.
After hosting a virtual US Book Show for two years, Publishers Weekly will now offer a hybrid event in May 2023.
Bookshop, launched in 2020 as a virtuous alternative to Amazon, has until now sold primarily print editions.
According to the AAP, which consists of traditional publishers in various sectors, consumer sales dropped 6.2 percent in 2022 against 2021.