Discount and remainder bookseller Daedalus Books & Music is opening
its first freestanding retail store, at Belvedere Square, a renovated
marketplace in North Baltimore, Md., in January, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.
While most of its business is online and through catalogues, Daedalus has a store at its Columbia, Md., warehouse. The new 9,000-sq.-ft. Daedalus store will offer up to 20,000 book titles and 2,000 music CDs.
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The Kentucky legislature is calling for a study of prices of textbooks and related material, which CM Bulletin calls the possible "first wave in an upcoming flood of similar actions in other states."
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Next stop, Penn Station. All aborders.
Borders Books & Music is opening a fifth store in New York City next summer. The 23,480-sq.-ft. store will be on two stories at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street in the Penn Plaza complex, which includes Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station.
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The off-campus bookseller who argued that he shouldn't have to pay $3,000-$6,000 a semester for a list of required textbooks from the University of Colorado bookstore was notified this week that he can have an electronic copy of the list for $75, according to the Rocky Mountain News, which has publicized his plight.
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Dial-A-Book, the company whose Chapter One program includes 72,000 excerpts of U.S. books (with permission of the copyright holders!), has signed an agreement with Xinhua China, majority owner of China's largest book distributor. Under the agreement, Xinhua will post more than 25,000 Chapter One excerpts on its dealer network, which reaches 12,800 bookstores that together sell more than three billion books a year.
Also Dial-A-Book will act as a consultant with Xinhua to develop a database of excerpts of 100,000 Chinese books both for the Chinese and export markets. Most government-owned publishers are expected to participate. Dial-A-Book will also consult with Xinhua to create a database of English-language excerpts to be made available in China.
Dial-A-Book president Stanley R. Greenfield said that the program will "provide Chinese bookstores and online book retailer with the opportunity to read excepts of English books to help them judge the reading level of the books and their suitability for the Chinese market when making buying decisions."
While most of its business is online and through catalogues, Daedalus has a store at its Columbia, Md., warehouse. The new 9,000-sq.-ft. Daedalus store will offer up to 20,000 book titles and 2,000 music CDs.
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The Kentucky legislature is calling for a study of prices of textbooks and related material, which CM Bulletin calls the possible "first wave in an upcoming flood of similar actions in other states."
---
Next stop, Penn Station. All aborders.
Borders Books & Music is opening a fifth store in New York City next summer. The 23,480-sq.-ft. store will be on two stories at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street in the Penn Plaza complex, which includes Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station.
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The off-campus bookseller who argued that he shouldn't have to pay $3,000-$6,000 a semester for a list of required textbooks from the University of Colorado bookstore was notified this week that he can have an electronic copy of the list for $75, according to the Rocky Mountain News, which has publicized his plight.
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Dial-A-Book, the company whose Chapter One program includes 72,000 excerpts of U.S. books (with permission of the copyright holders!), has signed an agreement with Xinhua China, majority owner of China's largest book distributor. Under the agreement, Xinhua will post more than 25,000 Chapter One excerpts on its dealer network, which reaches 12,800 bookstores that together sell more than three billion books a year.
Also Dial-A-Book will act as a consultant with Xinhua to develop a database of excerpts of 100,000 Chinese books both for the Chinese and export markets. Most government-owned publishers are expected to participate. Dial-A-Book will also consult with Xinhua to create a database of English-language excerpts to be made available in China.
Dial-A-Book president Stanley R. Greenfield said that the program will "provide Chinese bookstores and online book retailer with the opportunity to read excepts of English books to help them judge the reading level of the books and their suitability for the Chinese market when making buying decisions."