Booksellers gift publishers with lower returns.
Returns across the publishing trade are expected to be lower or level with early 2003 as a result of more careful stock management. Waterstone's said the implementation of its Phoenix Version 9 system would mean returns were down on early 2003. Despite the problems with W H Smith's Retek system, the...
| Publicado en: | Bookseller no. 5111; p. 12 |
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