Online Sales

Benjamin Thomas Joins Media Services Group as VP of Operations
September 15, 2017 at 10:59 am

Scottsdale, Arizona, September 15, 2017 - Media Services Group Ltd. (MSGL) announced the addition of Benjamin Thomas as Vice President of Operations for the Élan Book and Subscription systems.  Said Tom Jensen, MSGL’s President of the Book and Subscriptions division, “Benjamin joins us with twenty years (20) of experience working for and supporting the publishing…

How to Kill a New York Times Bestseller
April 24, 2017 at 11:58 am

Hundreds of bestsellers are unnoticed by shoppers on retail websites, which costs publishers a lot of book sales. There’s an easy fix.

Lessons for Publishers from the Loss of Family Christian Stores
March 16, 2017 at 12:49 pm

Last month brought sad news that another national bookstore chain went out of business. This time, Family Christian Stores, the largest U.S. retailer of Christian books and merchandise, closed all of its locations. Executives throughout the industry, both mainstream and religious, hated to see another big brick-and-mortar chain go under. The sting of Borders closing…

Press Release: Amazon Announces Best-Selling Books of 2016
December 8, 2016 at 1:23 pm

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2016 – Amazon today announced its best-selling books of 2016, best-selling Kids & Teens books of 2016, as well as the Most Gifted and Most Wished For books of the year—just in time for holiday gifting. The best-selling book of the year is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 &…

Press Release: Open Road Integrated Media Announces Partnership on Global Ebook Pricing Initiative
October 28, 2016 at 2:07 pm

Parsippany, N.J. and New York – Oct. 19, 2016 – Vistaar Technologies, Inc. (Vistaar), a leading provider of price management solutions, and Open Road Integrated Media (Open Road), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, today announced a partnership on a global pricing initiative to drive optimized price management of Open Road’s ebook catalog. Vistaar’s…