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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that Thomas P. Burke has joined the company as Senior Vice President, E-Commerce. A seasoned e-commerce leader, Burke joins Scholastic from bn.com, the e-commerce division of Barnes & Noble, Inc. where for five years he managed a team of more than 70 professionals...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In a New Yorker blog post this week, James Surowiecki questioned the American Booksellers Association's "dubious" claims about "illegal predatory pricing" by Wal-Mart (WMT) in its Book Price War with Amazon.com (AMZN). Here's more : "[T]here's just no reason to believe that Wal-Mart is cutting prices now in order to raise them later: the company's entire history has been one...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
In bookselling news, eWeek analyzed five ways Barnes & Noble (BKS) could beat Amazon.com (AMZN) at the e-reader business. Here's a sample : "the right leveraging of its retail space could give Barnes & Noble a broad venue through which to push its product--particularly if they allow features such as in-store Wi-Fi browsing of text. Unless Amazon.com signs a deal with a big-box store such...
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News On Women (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Scholastic Corporation, publisher and distributor of children's books and children's media and an educational technology company, has a variety of jobs available in my area and elsewhere: Online Marketing Manager E-Commerce, responsible for developing targeted campaigns with sound measurement to...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Barnes & Noble released an earnings report yesterday, noting declines. Business Week reports: "For the period ending Oct. 31, the company expects retail sales to fall 1 percent to 3 percent. The company expects sales in stores open at least one year to fall 2 percent to 4 percent." Nevertheless, experts predict the company will unveil a new digital reader this holiday season. GalleyCat...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
This week a federal judge denied Amazon.com's (AMZN) request to dismiss an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the print-on-demand company, BookLocker. According to MaineBiz , the court filing says that "Amazon's demand that publishing companies use a specific printer in order to sell their books in the Amazon marketplace" violates federal antitrust laws. GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Scholastic Corporation ( SCHL ) F1Q10 Earnings Call September 24, 2009 8:30 am ET Complete Story »
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL) today reported a 14% rise in revenue from continuing operations to $315.6 million in the fiscal 2010 first quarter ended August 31, 2009. The loss per share from continuing operations also improved significantly to $0.68, compared to $1.13 in the prior year period. Stronger results reflected higher sales of educational technology to schools...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL) announced the following schedule and teleconference information for its first quarter fiscal year 2010 earnings release: Earnings Release: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at approximately 7:00 AM (Eastern) by public distribution and on the Company’s website at investor.scholastic.com. Conference Call: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Google (GOOG) made the biggest bookselling headlines this week, in a Congressional hearing about the proposed Google Books settlement as one government official opposed the deal. According to BayNewser , "the head of the U.S. Copyright Office told the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that the office opposes the settlement." GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance...
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AAPL - BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Time Warner (TWX) , Politics , Obama Picks Given the recent controversy over Obama's address to school children Tuesday, I was interested to see the speech released on the White House web site . While not all schools will be showing the speech, it is still likely to have a huge audience of many students across the nation. I looked...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Today MarketWatch reported on a new study that states: "E-book readers like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will have to cut their prices significantly to draw mass-market adoption"--a bit of digital book pricing intelligence for Amazon (AMZN) and Sony (SNE) to ponder over the long weekend. GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance of the major companies that influence the bookselling...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The same week they unveiled a new Daily Edition Reader (pictured, via ) with 3G wireless and a Google Book-compatible ePub format, Sony (SNE) defended the Internet giant in court this week: "Google Book will 'foster competition, spur innovation and create efficiencies that will substantially benefit consumers,' a Sony lawyer said in a court filing yesterday," reported Bloomberg . GalleyCat...
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