Impressively, both new release and catalog sales saw double digit growth of 20 percent in 2011.
Combined Internet and catalog sales in the Americas were 4 percent below last year.
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Internet and catalog sales rose 6 percent and 4 percent in the fourth quarter and full year.
Same store sales in the Americas increased 19 percent and Internet and catalog sales in the Americas increased 16 percent.
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Combined Internet and catalog sales in the Americas rose 14 percent.
Sales transacted on the Internet would be treated the same as catalog or phone sales: Unless a seller has a physical presence in the state of the buyer, no sales tax can be collected.
In October, the company cut jobs at its Fingerhut Internet sales and catalog unit, which had been plagued by credit problems.
The company attributed the gain to the launches of titles like BioShock 2, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the PS3 and PC, and Major League Baseball 2K10, along with continuing strong sales of catalog titles including NBA 2K10 and Grand Theft Auto IV.
It did report an increase in direct-to-consumer sales, which include catalog and Internet, by 6.5%.
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Green mistakenly figured that by carrying extra inventory he could ship pieces as fast as catalog orders, representing 80% of sales, came in.
In one mailing, replacing an image of Michelangelo's God's hand with one depicting the ruins of Petra produced a 21.8% lift in sales from its Great Courses catalog.
Now one company is bringing its entire store catalog onto the social network in order to increase its sales.
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So today it announced that to augment those slim sales, Kozmo will begin duplicating its online offerings in a print catalog and publicize a toll-free number, in order to attract customers who are less Internet-savvy.
Instead of driving sales, commercial radio stations are able to have access to a huge catalog of music that they don't need to fully pay for.
Despite the world of catalog commerce being greatly expanded by the world of e-commerce, states must still rely on a catalog-era U.S. Supreme Court case that limits their ability to collect sales and use tax.
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