Chris Webb

Thinking About Borders No-Returns Deal with HarperStudio

It was widely reported this week that Borders has agreed to accept books from HarperStudio as non-returnable.  For those who don’t know, books sold to almost every bookseller can generally be returned to the Publisher for full credit.  In fact, this has been the norm since the 1930s so this arrangement between Borders is unusual [...]

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Border’s Face Out Strategy May Hurt Their Web Sales

Ever since Border’s announced that they would be leaving partner Amazon.com to build their own web presence, I have been eagerly watching to see what features they might bake into the new site. After all, Amazon.com really does it right in so many ways. Border’s new online storefront will have one benefit that Amazon.com can not offer [...]

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