BORDERS GO INTO ADMINISTRATION

I heard this last night on the radio when I went food shopping.   
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UK bookshop chain Borders goes into administration
The firm, which has 45 stores employing 1,150 people across the UK, has come under severe pressure from internet competition during the past year
The UK bookshop chain Borders [...]

This is the current top 50 bestselling books in the UK.
The key below will explain what everything means.  I was going to remove that detail but actually it’s quite interesting to see what position the books were in last week (if any) so I left it in. For example the book that is at #20 [...]

Ok, this is not a site about TV shows, nor is it a site about Richard and Judy, but I do have an interest in the show where it concerns books and the book club, so I have been monitoring the ratings.
Here’s the latest:
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan’s new chatshow on digital channel Watch has [...]

1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House Trade)
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade).
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin Books)
6. TIE: Eat, Pray, Love by [...]

The lovely people at Orion books sent me the following email:
To celebrate the publication of Ian Rankin’s new novel, Doors Open, we’re giving 5 lucky people the chance to win a set of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels – that’s 17 books in total. All the books have been redesigned with brand new covers that [...]

Amazon makes Beedle commitment

Amazon.co.uk has followed its US parent’s lead by committing to supply the Harry Potter spin-off The Tales of Beedle the Bard on the day of publication, as it did previously with the Harry Potter book series.
Amazon will deliver both the standard edition and Amazon’s exclusive Collector’s Edition on its official publication [...]

Wow this is really quite impressive, and quite a difference between this long awaited sequel and Stephenie Meyer’s long awaited sequel (Breaking Dawn).  Details and comparisons are below.
Christopher Paolini’s fantasy novel Brisingr has become the fastest selling children’s book in the UK this year, racking up over 45,000 sales in its first day of release, [...]

Google Book Search has launched a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers and “anyone with a web site” to embed books form the Google Book Search index.
In a blog Google Book Search product manager, Alex Diaz, said that “we’re taking a big step towards bringing more books, across more sites, to more people [...]

I read this today in the Guardian, and somehow I think it’s very sad, especially since this is the centenary of the book.  I don’t know why they felt that they had to reveal this information now when so many people are celebrating the author and the book.  It just seems like a real downer [...]

Predicting the next bestseller is just one part of a book buyer’s job. Hannah Davies speaks to Borders’ Rob Hughes about analysing data, spotting trends and schmoozing with publishers
Rob Hughes’ career path to Borders’ non-fiction buyer for biography and lifestyle was somewhat unconventional. With a six-year stint as a stand-up comic after graduating from the [...]