Bookstore Sales Decline in June

Hi Everyone,

In the headlines this week (sneak preview below), bookstore sales were off for June but figures for the year are slightly up. A development that bears watching is whether publishers will start blocking suppliers from deep discounts on their products as the result of a court ruling. Also, watch the Book Depository. They are to the UK what Amazon is to the US, and in fact, they have ties to the giant American retailer.

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News Headlines
Thursday August 21, 2008
(updated each Thursday)

• Bookstore Sales Decline in June; Stay Up for Year

• Booksellers Angered Over Amazon's Jump on 'Obama' Sales

• Court Ruling May Help Publishers Block Cut-Rate Prices
  
  
• Twelve Bidders Vie for Reed Magazine Unit
  
  
• Marjorie Braman to Head Henry Holt as Editor-in-Chief
  
  

• Smith Named Managing Director of Book Depository