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And yet on exactly the same day that ASDA was confirming just how bad its sales position is, Amazon announced that it would open in early 2017 another fulfilment centre – its thirteenth – in the UK. Part—but only part—of the reason why Amazon needs more capacity is due to the initial success of its Amazon Fresh food delivery business which launched in the UK in July 2016.
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TweetThere’s been controvery over the past few days following DC’s decision to hire Orson Scott Card, a pioneer in contemporary homophobia, as one of the writers on a new digital-first Superman anthology series. And although the internet has been going back and forth on the subject for the past few days, the first active step [...]
Foyles opened its new branch in the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre this week, placing the focus on children’s literature and attracting families.
The 5,000 square foot store located on the ground floor of the centre officially opened for its first day of trade yesterday (9th November), welcoming shoppers through the door with a floor-to-ceiling pillar made out of books.
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The Fiction Uncovered promotion launched earlier this year has received two more years of funding, enabling it to run through to summer 2013.
The promotion, which supports writers deserving of recognition but yet to receive media attention or a major prize, is being funded by Grants for the Arts, supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery.
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UK retail sale values sank 0.6% in October compared to last year, with the British Retail Consortium warning sales were "worryingly weak" in the approach to Christmas.
In October last year, sales values had risen by 0.8%. On a total basis sales were up by 1.5% in October this year, but in the same month last year sales had risen by 2.4%.
The BRC warned book sales remained "very tough and well below their year-earlier level".
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Foyles' seventh branch in Westfield Stratford City shopping centre is due to open on 10th November.
The shopping centre site, situated near the London Olympic Stadium, opened in September but Foyles delayed its own opening until next week until the relevant building work was completed.
The store is located on the lower ground floor, next to Waitrose.
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Amazon customers can now have their purchases sent to lockers in London, instead of to their homes and offices.
The company has lockers in Seattle and New York as well as the metropolitan area of London. Customers can choose to have their purchase sent to a locker instead of delivered to their homes by clicking on the ‘Search for an Amazon Locker location’ button during the checkout process.
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Bath independent bookseller Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights has launched a new website, which it hopes will reach a broader audience.
The Bath-based retailer, who won Bookseller of the Year at The Bookseller Industry Awards 2011, has handpicked all the titles to sell through the site and created lists of recommendations for readers.
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 10/18/2011
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Terry Pratchett’s Snuff (Doubleday) has become one of the fastest-selling novels since records began, shifting 54,687 copies at UK book retail outlets in its three days on sale last week.
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At least 22 independent bookshops are currently for sale in the UK, with the recession, the climate of the bookselling market and the refusal of banks to lend money all being cited as causes for fewer properties exchanging hands.
The bookshops on sale range in price from £10,000 for a book and card shop in Preston to £175,000 for a bookshop in North Yorkshire.
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Printed book sales in September rose by 10% on August, but were down 10% on last year, Nielsen BookScan data reveals. In total, £118.4m was spent on physical books in the four weeks to 1st October, an increase of £11m on August, but a decline of £14m on September 2010.
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Foyles will close its One New Change branch when its lease expires in April 2012 to "free up resources" for its forthcoming Stratford branch and recently opened Bristol shop.
The booksellers at Foyles One New Change will be redeployed within the company. Rebecca Hart, formerly a buyer for Royal Festival Hall and St Pancras branches, will now become the manager of the new Foyles Stratford shop.
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Bookmakers William Hill have made Jamie Oliver the hot favourite to be the bestselling Christmas title.
Given the runaway success of last year's 30-Minute Meals, it is no surprise that the bookmaker has given Oliver short odds of 1/2 for Jamie's Great Britain to be the biggest seller.
The next favourite is Guinness World Records 2012 at 11/2. The celebrity with the shortest odds is former Manchester United footballer Paul Scholes, whose My Story sits at 10/1.
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Independent booksellers are lining up special events for Haruki Murakami's eagerly awaited 1Q84 (Harvill Secker) with Foyles planning a midnight opening.
The book, Murakami's first since 2007's After Dark, will be published on 18th October, priced £20. It comprises volumes one and two of the story, with volume three published as a separate hardback on 25th October.
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London's independents have joined forces to publish a map of the city's bookshops.
The London Bookshop Map features 87 indies from across the city including ones selling new, antiquarian, specialist and second hand titles. The map is free and is available in bookshops and galleries. It features a text work from the artist David Batchelor. The map will be updated every six months and rereleased with a new text artwork.
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The Independent Alliance has launched a nationwide loyalty card scheme for independent bookshops, with 114 indies signed up so far.
Love Your Indie, which will be run in association with the Guardian and Observer as part of their Books Season, has been put together by Faber marketing director Joanna Ellis and Icon Books sales and marketing director Andrew Furlow, with digital agency Bookswarm's operations director Simon Appleby.
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The White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough, Wiltshire, has been named Vintage Independent Bookshop of the Year, with two London shops finishing in second and third place.
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The Travel Bookshop premises in Notting Hill will reopen as a bookshop this week after The Book Warehouse acquired the lease to one-half of the building from the Travel Bookshop's founder Sarah Anderson.
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The Office of Fair Trading has said it now expects to announce its decision on the Amazon takeover of The Book Depository by late October.
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A D Miller and Carol Birch's novels are the big winners of the Man Booker Prize shortlist so far, with sales across the six books surging 290% by volume on last week.
The six books on the list shifted 18,496 copies for the week ending 10th September through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, up from 6,358.
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W H Smith said it is “delighted” to have a new branch in Westfield Stratford City as the £1.45bn complex opened its doors for the first time to customers today (13th September).
The branch is based on the lower ground floor of the shopping complex next to Olympic Park in east London. A Foyles branch is also due to open in the complex in early November.
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Waterstone's is thought to be organising the management of its stores into groups of bookshops with similar profiles, following a structure akin to that of Daunt Books.
M.d. James Daunt is thought to be splitting Waterstone's bookshops, which number about 300, into 40 smaller groups, categorising them according to size and the socio-economic status of their customers. Waterstone's is currently organised into large regional blocks, and it is not clear if the physical location of shops will play any part in the new structure.
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The Big Green Bookshop is marking the scrapping of the iconic decade-long Waterstone's three for two offer by launching its own.
For one day only (10th September) the London independent bookshop based in Wood Green will be offering its customers three books for the price of two.
However, unlike Waterstone's promotion on selected books, the indie is offering customers three for two on any of its stock, including its second hand range, which it will launch tomorrow.
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The last bookshop in Southwold is closing down next week after its owner Booksource sold the lease.
Selling both second-hand and new books, independent Bookthrift was the last bookshop standing in the Suffolk town after the closure of The Orwell Bookshop and Southwold Books, which both shut up shop in the last year.
The manager at Bookthrift, Pamela O’Hara, who used to manage The Orwell Bookshop, said trade had been doing fairly well considering the economic climate and added that sales were only “slightly down” on last year.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has pushed back its decision on whether to refer the Amazon takeover of The Book Depository to the Competition Commission.
The decision was expected to be tomorrow (2nd September) after being delayed from earlier this week. However, an OFT spokesman said a date for the decision was now "to be confirmed". He said the timetable for an announcement could change for "any number of reasons", but declined to go into specifics.
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You’re all welcome to say what you like in the comments, but I will be watching them. If anybody posts lies or abuse, their comments will be deleted. I RESERVE OBLITERATION RIGHTS
If the guy was a real genius in comics writing, why not hire him? (Superman still has an editor, right, so his job would be to proofread OSC scripts).
But why hire him in the first place? Where is this comics piece of writing he would have done that would grant him such a high position as a genius? Where?
Another poorly planned decision from the DC office… And yeah, the message sent to LGBT people by doing this isn’t very positive…
Don’t ask for his removal (hehas the right to work), just don’t buy the sh.t, this is the only thing the DC offices will understand….drop in sales.
If this is the standard, then no Mormon, obedient Catholic, Muslim, or Conservative Christian can ever be hired by DC. In fact, Obama couldn’t have worked there until a year ago. Maybe the CBLDF will step in… Ha!
I think doing both, expressing concern and contacting DC to let them know via a petition or other method, and not buying the comic would be a good approach. If they are trying to bring in more LGBT readers then this sort of thing sends exactly the wrong kind of message. It’s extremely worrying that they would hire someone who speaks out about this so much in public and online. Given the opportunity, and if the story allows, I am sure he would try to express his views in the comic. Again, this might be nixed by the editor, but things can slip through and it would be awful to have Superman say something very offensive and upsetting. Imagine if a very young reader saw it? What kind of a message would DC be sending to young fans?
Card’s organization has directly harmed a couple of my family members by denying them their equal rights here in California. As a result, I refuse to help support the man financially, as that money he earns may be used to further injure my loved ones. I can only hope that others follow suit, but I cannot compel them to do so. This is not an act of hate on my part. It is me acting to protect those who Card would injure if given the chance. The right thing to do against bullies like him is to stand up to them.
“But this is the first move which will actively see sales and money taken away from DC as a result of the hiring, rather than empty words on an internet page.”
it’s painful to see important topics discussed in such horrible prose. seriously, heidi, try editing this stuff once in a while. empty words on an internet page indeed.
Tis dignified, regal prose
Roger Stern is a great Superman writer and seems to be unemployed right now. Why doesn’t DC hire him instead?
superman should lead the great jihad against this christian infidel!
allu akbar
As usual, people who advocate such unlimited tolerance about everything all the time are the most intolerant of all, if someone’s opinion doesn’t agree with theirs. Card is standing up for his beliefs, not causing someone physical harm. Isn’t that his right? Why must he be called a bully and far worse because he is doing something you disagree with? If you don’t want to buy his stories, then don’t. Vote with your wallet, I fully support that. But I don’t believe the man is a monster. Some folks want to deprive others of their livelihoods because of their religious beliefs. How tolerant is that? Intelligent people can disagree about some subjects.
If you don’t want to support him, I would suggest sending a note to DC letting them know you won’t be purchasing the comic because of him, letting your retailer know why you won’t be buying it, and then not buying it.
Key will be letting DC know; otherwise they may think low sales are due to the lack of interest in Superman
“But why hire him in the first place?”
Probably some what influenced with this:
Awards
1978 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer from the World Science Fiction Convention
1981 Songmaster: Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award, 1981
1984 Saints: Book of the Year by the Association for Mormon Letters[40]
1985 Ender’s Game: Nebula Award, 1985;[6] Hugo Award, 1986;[4] Hamilton-Brackett Award, 1986; SF Chronicle Readers Poll, 1986
1986 Speaker for the Dead; Nebula Award, 1986,[4] Hugo Award, 1987;[5] Locus Award, 1987;[4] SF Chronicle Readers Poll Award 87
1987 “Eye for Eye”: Hugo Award, 1988; “Japanese Hugo”. 1989
1987 “Hatrack River”: Nebula nominee, 1986, Hugo nominee, 1987, World Fantasy Award winner, 1987
1988 Seventh Son: Hugo and WFA nominee, 1988;[41] Mythopoeic Society Award 1988; Locus Award winner, 1988[41]
1989 Red Prophet: Hugo nominee, 1988;[41] Nebula Nominee, 1989;[42] Locus winner, 1989[42]
1991 How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer’s Digest Books, 90): Hugo Award
1995 Alvin Journeyman: Locus Award winner, 1996[43]
2008 YALSA Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Contribution to Young Adult Literature; for Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow
2008 Whitney Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award[44]
and also that he has a movie based on his works coming out this year based on his book starring Harrison Ford.
I don’t remember any of this outrage coming when he was working quite prolifically with Marvel a few years ago. To say that DC shouldn’t hire Card to work is saying that they likely shouldn’t hire most anybody in the LDS faith as many of them hold the same beliefs. The difference with Card is his success and money have allowed him to fund his beliefs. Should LGBT people be able to be boycotted from writing DC comics because people of the LDS church have a difference in beliefs (no matter how wrong or misguided that belief may seem?)
All that being said, as a personal choice I will not be supporting this story by him and will not be purchasing it. Not buying the issue should be enough of a message. People overshooting with wholesale boycotts and petitions has the danger of hurting more then it will help the cause.,
If I decided not to buy any comics by creators whose personal political or religious beliefs differed from mine, I probably wouldn’t buy ANY comic books. If I extended that to other products (clothing, gasoline, food), I wouldn’t be able to buy ANYTHING.
As such, I will reserve my decision on whether to buy this comic until after publication and I can determine if the story reeks of “homophobia” or not. (BTW, it’s pretty good guess that at least one of the other creators on that book is homosexual.)
Anyone who wants to play the freedom of expression card in defense of Card and is still outraged about this retailer or the petitioners feeling free to express themselves is being hypocritical. Just saying.
All that of course aside from the fact that Card is not just expressing his opinion, but actively fighting to enforce his twisted ideas en oppress a minority. I commend Richard Neal and am not touching anything that would support Card either.
Jerry Smith, this is the ONE item those that see this as intolerance by the tolerant seem to constantly miss: “It’s not simply the case that Card has personal politics which are shameful… but that he works tirelessly to dismiss and degrade LGBT rights as part of a hate group.” If you have an opinion, and want to live our your life based on that opinion, more power to you. BUT, the moment you ACTIVELY decide to work (especially with larger organizations) to take away other people’s rights, etc. you’ve taken it to the next level.
This is the same problem with Dan Cathy and Chick-Fil-A (for example only.) Hey, you’re a Conservative Christian and you don’t feel gays deserve equal rights, marriage, etc. fine. That’s your opinion, and we’ve all got one. But then you take large amounts of money and funnel them into groups actively working to deny others their rights, you just lost big time. And THAT’S when the ones who’s rights you’re trying to take away fight back.
I’ll buy two copies.