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An Energized Heartland Forum
According to Deb Leonard, the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association’s executive director, the secret to the first Heartland Fall Forum’s success was that she and Carrie Obry, her counterpart at the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, “took the best of both shows and created something unique.” Judging by the smiles on the faces of the show’s 770 attendees—364 of them booksellers doing business in 13 Midwestern states—mixing together GLIBA’s strengths in education and MIBA’s creativity with author events exceeded all expectations. The Heartland forum indeed turned out to be much greater than the sum of its many parts. If there was one word both exhibitors and booksellers used over and over in discussing the show with PW, it was “energy.”
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Amazon Starts Author Ranking Feature
Amazon has launched a new “Author Rank” feature on its site. The new ranking is based on cumulative sales of all books by each author.
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Nook Tablet Pre-Orders Sky High, Lynch Tells Investors
At a Wednesday afternoon Liberty Media investor conference Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that pre-orders for the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets were running 240% higher than previous Nook launches.
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Nook Tablet Pre-Orders Sky High, Lynch Tells Investors
At a Wednesday afternoon Liberty Media investor conference Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that pre-orders for the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets were running 240% higher than previous Nook launches.
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MIBA Appoints New President to Replace Haradon
The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association has appointed a new president to head its board: Tripp Ryder, general trade manager at Carleton College Bookstore in Northfield, Minn., will assume the duties immediately.
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New Jersey Bookshop with a Mission – to Help Autistic Kids
Former attorney Jonah Zimiles, who founded [words] bookstore in Maplewood, N.J., three years ago with his wife, attorney Ellen Zimiles, is the first to admit that they are not typical bookstore owners.
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Heartland Fall Forum Gets Positive Reviews
The first Heartland Fall Forum was described by many as the best regional gathering they’d attended in years.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 8, 2012
Commentary and analysis of this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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Finding a Role in the Middle
Although some publishers and distributors were in the digital space long before Amazon introduced the Kindle in November 2007, the then-$399 device offering seamless downloads of relatively inexpensive digital books was definitely the game changer. In the intervening five years, not only have devices and formats morphed and multiplied—and with them challenges, not least of which is how many ISBNs a single e-book needs—but new retail players have continued to emerge. Zola Books, which is still in beta, will begin selling later this year; Kobo is about to relaunch in the U.S. with independent booksellers; and even Ingram is working on an e-book platform (no date has been set yet).
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ABA Readies “Thanks for Shopping Indie”
The program will enable member stores to receive a promotional discount on 10 titles from 20 publishers.
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‘Casual Vacancy’ and the State of Big (Print) Debuts
After months of hype, the first adult novel from J.K. Rowling debuted with the third biggest print opening of 2012. At outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, The Casual Vacancy sold 156,679 copies in its first week—enough to place it behind only No Easy Day by Mark Owen (254,046 copies) and Fifty Shades Darker (170,628 copies) for this year’s biggest debut. Across all formats, publisher Little, Brown said Rowling’s book sold approximately 375,000 copies in its first six days on sale.
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What's Selling at Dolly's Bookstore
Sue Fassett, manager of Dolly's Bookstore in Park City, Utah, talks about which children's books are moving well at her store this fall.
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Diesel Bookstore Plans 4th California Location in Spring 2013
With stores already established in Malibu, Brentwood, and Oakland, Diesel co-owner John Evans has announced a fourth location that will open in Larkspur, California in the spring of 2013.
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B&N, Microsoft Complete Deal to Create Nook Media
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have finalized their partnership agreement that has created Nook Media, a B&N subsidiary in which Microsoft will hold a 17.6% stake.
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MPIBA To Launch Mentor Program
Established bookstores will be enlisted to help out newer ventures.
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B&N Removing Marshall Title
Barnes & Noble has told any of its stores that have stocked Penny Marshall’s My Mother Was Nuts to remove the title from shelves.
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'High Energy' at New Atlantic Booksellers Conference
This year’s New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference focused on getting noticed.
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Glitches Aside, B&N Insists It Is Not Carrying Amazon Titles
After PW reported that Barnes & Noble would not be carrying books from Amazon Publishing in its stores, a report has surfaced that the retailer seems to be selling titles from the publishing imprint.
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News Briefs: Week of October 1, 2012
New Tablets, Overseas Expansion for B&N and more
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New Report Sees Gradual Decline in Book Spending
Given the state of flux in the book world, it can be dangerous to predict industry sales trends, but the private investment banking firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson has done just that in its latest annual report, the “VSS Communications Industry Forecast (2012–16).”
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