Trends: Bookstores And Newspapers

Here's a quartet of trend stories for two industries that support a great number of cartoonists, newspapers and bookstores:

* bookstore trend story one: bookstore revenues showed moderate growth for 2007, while book sales overall showed a slightly more significant upswing in sales.

* bookstore trend story two: graphic novels is one of the categories getting the spotlight at the newly-configured Borders stores, starting to roll out nationwide in select market. How graphic novels will be treated in the context of store structural changes isn't a topic I've seen broached.

* newspaper trend story one: even the New York Times, which has done an admirable job generating a high-profile web site the last few years, will be downsizing in terms of jobs.

* newspaper trend story two: two newspapers cease daily publication for a combination of weekend or free tabs supplemented by an active web site. The thing here is that this is a radical move but given the state of newspapers it doesn't feel radical, which is kind of astonishing.
 
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