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Hurricane Sandy: Most Booksellers Doing All Right
Just as some neighborhoods were spared and others hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, the same was true for bookstores. Many stores in areas with tropical force winds opened on Tuesday.
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BINC Ready to Help in Sandy’s Wake
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is there to assist booksellers facing severe hardship due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Canadian Booksellers Association Prepares to Join RCC
Facing financial and other pressures, the Canadian Booksellers Association voted October 18 to become a division of the Retail Council of Canada, which CBA has been affiliated with since 2009.
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New Look for Left Bank Books
In their application for the Bookstore Make-Over Contest sponsored by the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates to mark its 20th anniversary, Kris Kleindienst and Jarek Steele, owners of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., wrote, “Frankly, [the store’s] looking really tired at this point and the layout does not work for us at all anymore.”
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Self-Publishing Rules the EBM at Indies
When On Demand Books introduced its Espresso Book Machine to the U.S. book trade in 2008 by installing a beta model at Northshire Books in Manchester Center, Vt., the company promoted it as a tool for printing backlist titles and books in the public domain, as well as for authors who wanted to self-publish.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 29, 2012
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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Penguin Offers New Partnership Program for Indies
Penguin will launch a program for independent booksellers, which was developed in response to ABA CEO Teicher's call for new business models.
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Strong Sales of Kids' Books and Other Titles Energizes NEIBA Show
The New England Booksellers Association’s 39th annual fall conference, held Oct. 3–5 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, opened with high energy, which it largely sustained throughout the three-day show.
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B&N Customers Suffer Identity Theft Scheme
Barnes & Noble has been hacked. The retailer said that there was "tampering with PIN pad devices" in 63 of its stores, all related to "one compromised PIN pad" in each location.
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Children's Authors and Booksellers Get Noticed at NAIBA
The theme of this year's New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference, held in Arlington, Va., was Get Noticed. For many booksellers, tips on how to get noticed by publishers proved a big draw.
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Books of Wonder Looks to indiegogo for Help
New York City's oldest children's-only bookstore, Books of Wonder, launches a campaign to raise $100,000 on indiegogo.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Print Book Sales for the Week Ending October 14, 2012
PW's weekly look at sales of trade print books based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 22, 2012
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Canadian Booksellers Association Votes on Retail Council Merger
Canadian Booksellers Association voted yesterday to "explore becoming a division" of the Retail Council of Canada.
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Random House Once Again Offers Holiday Shipping Special
Random House announced Thursday afternoon that beginning November 1 it will once again implement its two-day transit program for this year’s holiday season for all books across all imprints.
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Optimism at Pacific Northwest
Despite financial concerns, PNBA's three-day tradeshow in Tacoma, which ended yesterday, drew new booksellers and got high marks from vendors.
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Bookstore Sales Dipped in August
Bookstore sales dipped less than 1% in August, falling to $2.38 billion from $2.40 billion in August 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Print Book Sales for the Week Ending October 7, 2012
PW's weekly look at print book sales based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 15, 2012
Analysis and commentary on this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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