Brillig

Once upon a time I used to take a free weekend afternoon and do a grand circuit of Manhattan bookstores, up 2nd Ave. maybe stopping at Black...

So it's not all that long ago that we were told what a big mistake it was for Borders not to have invested more in the e-book reader bus...

I should be reading a manuscript but it's late and I'm tired and it's not the right conditions for work reading. So instead, let...

Publishers Lunch Daily has a list of Barnes & Noble locations that have quietly closed at the end of 2011. The demise of their big and b...

Wrote this email to someone I know who worked at a Florida Borders... Sorry didn't return your call, at a weekend long wedding with two ...

So it's possible you've heard from different places, a blog somewhere or your editor trying to explain why your new offer is so low,...

There just isn't much in my life so far that's leaving a hole in my existence the way the Borders bankruptcy is. Several years ago ...

So I think it's safe to say that the main beneficiary of the ongoing disappearing act at Borders has been Amazon or other internet outle...

Borders CEO Michael Edwards gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal and the company also had a conference call with creditors, which wa...

Even though Barnes & Noble likes to brag about how wonderfully they're doing, the cost-cutting bug hasn't skipped over. Here P...

According to this article on publishersweekly.com there is a bank willing to refinance Borders debt but with several strings attached, and ...

Updated twice, final 4:07 EST. The New York Times Week in Review section reprinted this Pat Bagley cartoon from the Salt Lake Tribune, wh...

Family business often brings me to the Hartford area, where the bookstores are longtime friends of a sort.  First and foremost is the Border...

I just updated a blog post about bookstores that are set to close, and as promised I wanted to talk a little more about the Westwood Border...

News is trickling out here and there of bookstores that are set to close after the holidays or even before. Here in New York, there's a ...

Borders announced it's earnings, or more exactly the size of its loss for the most recent quarter. Same store sales dropped 7%, not good...

As I type this I'm a few hours away from boarding a plane to Melbourne, Australia for WorldCon with some travel Down Under following.  I...

My client Tim Akers took some time away from his work on Dead of Veridon to give us his thoughts on the Nook he got for Christmas. Click her...

So let's see what's happening this week in the world of e-books and retailing. Borders officially launched its e -book store today ...

So the Father's Day advertising war for various e-book devices, including the Kindle, Nook and iPad, was followed by the after-Father...