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BAM! Gets Settled In New England
Last August Books-a-Million’s $934,000 purchase of the leases for 14 Borders stores from U.S. bankruptcy court gave it entrée to seven new states above its stronghold in the Bible Belt. By year’s end, through the acquisition and assumption of more leases, BAM! had moved into 41 former Borders locations and gained a toehold in an eighth state. Together the new stores provided the nation’s #2 chain, or as it prefers to describe itself, “the third largest book retailer in the nation,” a presence in New England for the first time.
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What's Selling at River Lights Bookstore
From River Lights Bookstore in Dubuque, Iowa, owner Sue Davis gives word about a handful of children's books that are moving briskly this summer.
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Schuler Books Marks 30th Anniversary
One year almost to the day after the last Borders stores closed, another Michigan-based book retailer, Schuler Books & Music, will celebrate their 30th year selling books.
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New Stores Boost Books-A-Million
The addition of over 40 new stores in last year’s fourth quarter resulted in a 14.9% increase in sales at Books-A-Million for the second quarter ended July 28, with revenue hitting $120.4 million in the period. Comparable store sales, however, increased at a much more modest rate of 0.5%.
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Content Drives Improvement at Barnes & Noble
The sale of print and digital content led to a 2.5% increase in revenue at Barnes & Noble in the first quarter ended July 28, with total sales rising to $1.45 billion. Net loss in the quarter fell to $41 million from $56.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2012.
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Bookstore Sales Up in First Half of 2012
Bookstore sales rose 3.8% in June, to $1.04 billion, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The strong June performance helped to put bookstore sales in 2012 slightly ahead of sales at the half-way point of 2011, with sales up 0.6%, to $6.98 billion.
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Books Up at Hastings, Which Cuts Loss
Given a boost by sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, book comps rose 2.5% in the second quarter ended July 31 at Hastings Entertainment. In addition to Grey, sales of used books were up, helping to offset declines in hardcover sales.
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Porter Square Books to Publish Dog Calendar
Next month Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., is hoping that customers will sit up and take notice of Sit. Stay. Read! (PSB, $15), a 2013 wall calendar of neighborhood dogs.
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This Week's Bestsellers: Aug. 6-12, 2012
Analysis of and commentary on this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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A Changing Retail Marketplace
Is the shift we see in the book industry between physical and online stores and category sales real? The answer is, yes.
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College Stores Get Ready for National Student Day
On October 4, more than 1,500 college stores, will participate in the second annual National Student Day, sponsored by the National Association of College Stores.
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Powell’s Celebrates First 41 Years
Powell’s Books in Portland, Ore., is marking its 41st with a four-month celebration, which gets underway with a downtown block party on August 25.
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John Sargent to Deliver Keynote at NEIBA
Macmillan CEO John Sargent will kick off the New England Independent Booksellers Association’s three-day fall conference on with a keynote address.
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ABFFE Gears Up for Banned Book Week
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is providing a variety of tools for booksellers who want to join the celebration of the freedom to read during Banned Books Week (Sept. 30-Oct. 6).
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Greenlight to Co-Curate Series at BAM
Greenlight is extending its relationship with the Brooklyn Academy of Music by co-curating Unbound, a reading series with literary luminaries that launches next month.
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SCIBA Announces 2012 Book Prize Finalists
Book Prize finalists for 2012 are announced by SCIBA in six categories, including fiction, non-fiction, mystery, children's novels, and children's picture books.
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A Sci Fi Bookstore/Publisher Grows in Brooklyn
Three bookstores are opening in Brooklyn in as many weeks. The latest, Singularity&Co., is a sci fi bookstore/publisher in DUMBO.
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NAIPR Basic Goes Live on Edelweiss
After partnering with Above the Treeline last spring to integrate Frontlist Plus Universal into Edelweiss, NAIPR announced that NAIPR Basic is live on the Edelweiss site.
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UK Publisher Triples Sales by Bundling
A small bundling experiment in the UK with the Angry Robot imprint and one bookshop could have big implications given that sales of those titles have tripled.
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Canadian Second Quarter Book Sales Down Slightly
The number of book sold in Canada was down slightly for the second quarter, but booksellers are still finding ways to make a bit more money from the books sold.
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