Levatino, currently a rep for Norton, will sell Workman and Norton books in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee; Whitten, who has sold Workman’s list as a member of the Booklink group, will sell in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi; and Verner, most recently a member of the Morrison Sales Group, will cover the North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia territory.

However in a short phone interview, CPM director John O'Donnell declined to confirm or deny the possibility of bankruptcy. "I can't comment on every rumor circulating about CPM,” O’Donnell said. “We have had to make immediate cuts in payroll and costs." In a prepared statement O'Donnell added, "Our business has been significantly impacted by Musicland's banruptcy filing," and said,"the company is focused on a cost cutting program, which will structure the company for future growth without our largest customer. A number of very talented professional employees have unfortunately lost their jobs through no fault of their own."

Although CPM had suffered layoffs in early 2005, the company had added staff and had taken steps to revive its manga publishing program; it was unclear if this will now go forward. At BookExpo the company announced a new distribution agreement with Consortium.

The New York store is 1,700 square feet and will feature mostly Taschen books with about 20% of the inventory from other publishers with titles that compliment Taschen’s list. Philippe Starck, the French designer who has worked on everything from the private home of Francios Mitterand to gadgets sold at Target stores, is working with the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes to design the store and create original works of art for it.

The store will open on Greene Street in September.

The biography, written by scholar Jonathan Weiss, was initially slated for release in early 2007. But once Stanford saw the reception Suite Française was receiving (it’s hit both the PW and NYT bestseller lists), it pushed the author for an earlier release. “The success of Suite Française took everybody by surprise,” said SUP senior marketing manager Puja Sangar. She said Weiss has been getting calls from American and foreign journalists seeking information on Némirovsky’s life (she died at Auschwitz), because there is no English-language biography of the author. Sangar acknowledged that the biography will come “a bit late” (considering that Suite Française is hitting lists now), but that “October was the earliest” SUP could publish the book given the fact that Weiss has just completed writing. SUP plans a 5,000-copy first printing.

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