Wal-Mart Touts Web Book Sales Amid Amazon-Hachette Spat
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it’s benefiting from the spat between Amazon.com Inc. and publisher Hachette Book Group.
The world’s largest retailer, which offers Hachette titles for sale on its Web store, said yesterday that physical book sales on Walmart.com have climbed 70 percent. The company didn’t give a time frame for the gain.