Len Riggio, who has fired four CEOs in five years, denies that instability in corporate leadership has hurt Barnes and Noble
It’s been almost two months since Barnes and Noble fired CEO Demos Parneros. At the time, details on the ouster were scarce, but in late-August, Parneros filed a lawsuit against… Read more »
When it comes to making a bestseller, algorithms are good, but money is better
Neil Balthaser, whose start-up Intellogo we’ve covered on MobyLives before, has heard about The Bestseller Code, the recent book by book-tech duo Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers that takes as its… Read more »
Hachette acquires Perseus Books
In 2014, two years after the death of Perseus Books’s founder Frank Pearl, Hachette Book Group got most of the way through a deal to purchase Perseus in its entirety. Now, some eighteen months after… Read more »
Stunning numbers reflect European disinterest in ebooks and buying books online
A New York Times report yesterday by Kevin J. O’Brien makes the startling observation that 98% of all European book sales are of print books. Of course, the report goes… Read more »