The American Booksellers Association sent a letter to its members today announcing that Google was putting an end to its reseller program, which allowed independent bookstores to operate an e-book storefront using Google as the wholesaler.
The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of e-books in Europe, "possibly with the help of Apple" (which offers an e-book storefront called iBooks).
He has just published his first book, "Brooklyn Storefronts," 75 color photographs of small, independently owned stores.
Though exact figures are unavailable, Barnes & Noble captured as much as 27 percent of the e-book market with its Nook, according to a Goldman Sachs report, and may have found a way out of the decline in storefront book selling.
In July, digital comic book aggregator and storefront ComiXology said it had surpassed 75 million downloads.
You can see why the statement about Amazon's plans might have been readily believed: the company back in November made a small inroad into the world of physical books with a storefront in Seattle, one of the many forays that Amazon has made to build bridges between its online presence and the offline shopping world.
The company says its main focus is attracting users, not making money, but Mr. Cohen said that eventually, if Coursekit can gain enough heft to become one of the go-to services that students use, the company could have a lucrative business as a storefront for books and other education-related materials.
Phoenix Books is a 1,500-square-foot 1,500-square-foot 1,500-square-footalley.
Well, we've reduced the footprint and thus the rent cost of bookstores approximately in half, by using physical books purely as a storefront display.
To be clear, that's a separate storefront from its books search engine books.google.com (which also now points to Google Play).
He also opened a bookstore in his hometown of Archer City, Texas, in 1988 and began the process of remaking the town into a "book town," eventually requiring four storefronts to house all the volumes he had added.
