Former Bessenberg Binding ownerJon Buller hit a winning streak to remember in late October. Around then he struck a deal for his custom binding company to be purchased by Dexter-based specialty publisher Thomson-Shore Inc. The next day, a buyer made an offer on the downtown Ann Arbor building that housed ...
The introduction of Apple’s long-awaited tablet device today is prompting an uneven reaction from the Ann Arbor region’s book industry. The tablet, which is likely to include e-reader capability, could boost sales of electronic books for firms like struggling Ann Arbor-based global book store chain Borders Group Inc. But, alternately, ...
Borders Group Inc.’s  2009 holiday sales plunged 13.7 percent compared to the same period in 2008, a sign that the Ann Arbor-based book store chain's (NYSE:BGP) turnaround strategy is failing to gain traction. The embattled firm reported today that its total sales for the 11-week holiday period, which ended ...
Michigan's largest book manufacturer is based in Ann Arbor, and its president told Ann Arbor Business Review in mid-2009 that it expected its first revenue drop in a long time that year. The culprit: Shrinking text book sales during the recession as K-12 schools place fewer orders, said John Edwards, ...
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