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Specializing in Specialty Stores
To walk into the 5,000-square-foot book room of the Stephen Young showroom in Los Angeles’s Gift Mart is to feel the atmosphere of an old-fashioned library decorated with vintage globes and bird cages, where tables and chairs are arranged to give browsers a chance to sit and relax while deciding what to buy for their stores.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Agrees with Assemblies of God
One of the world's largest Pentecostal denominations signed with Bookmasters to distribute its publishing imprints in both the Christian and secular markets.
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New Stores Boost Books-A-Million as Comps Fall
The addition of 41 former Borders stores opened in October and November helped boost sales at Books-A-Million in the fourth quarter ended January 28 by 10.7% to $166.9 million.
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Northshire Bookstore Starts Radio Show
Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vt., is partnering with WAMC-FM, Northeast public radio, on a new author series, "Off the Shelf: Authors in Conversation". Inaugural guest Rachel Madow will talk about her new book, Drift, with Joe Donahue, host of WAMC's "The Book Show."
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Flat Start for Bookstore Sales
Bookstore sales were virtually flat in January compared to January 2011, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were $2.070 billion compared to $2.072 billion last January.
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Coady to Expand Just the Right Book!
Roxanne Coady may be selling RJ Julia in Madison, Ct., but she's decided to hold on to the Just the Right Book!, and turn it into a national book discovery Web site.
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Finding the Right Course
It’s not just trade bookstores that are feeling the pinch from online retailers and other discounters. At the National Association of College Stores’ Campus Market Expo held earlier this month at the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, NACS’s OnCampus Research division reported that approximately 67% of students comparison shop for textbooks, and close to half, or 43%, bypass their school stores entirely. Even when they do browse, that isn’t always with the intention of buying a book. One bookseller at a prep school in Florida found students using cell phones to photograph assigned reading. Many of NACS’s initiatives and educational sessions at CAMEX addressed shrinking margins and encouraged booksellers to create relationships with students to bring them into their stores.
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Capra Press Revived
When Noel Young launched Santa Barbara–based Capra Press in 1969 and began to publish a literary who’s who of writers that included Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Durrell, and Ursula K. Le Guin it was a vibrant time for independent bookstores and small presses, the beginning of the golden era of the small press movement.
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Assouline Bookstore Goes Custom
While booksellers are weighing the advantages of adding POD services, Assouline has begun offering custom-binding at its flagship store at New York City.
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Edelweiss to Add NAIPR’s Frontlist Plus Universal
As part of a new cooperative venture, Frontlist Plus Universal, the online title-management tool developed by NAIPR, will join forces with Treeline’s Edelweiss.
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Nebraska Book Company Closing More Stores
Nebraska Book Company took one more step toward emerging from chapter 11 bankruptcy with the filing of a Second Amended Plan for Reorganization.
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Home Depot Confirms Plan to End 'Majority' of Book Sales
Two days after PW’s report that The Home Depot would no longer be selling books, the home-improvement superstore released an official statement on the matter.
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Once Upon A Crime Celebrates Trio of Anniversaries
The Minneapolis mystery bookstore is marking three anniversaries, including its 25th, with a mystery and crime fiction anthology, edited by the owners, to launch on April 7.
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Home Depot To Stop Selling Books
In a letter to publishers sent Friday, nation-wide retailer The Home Depot announced that they would no longer be selling books in order to “better optimize the space in the front end of the store.”
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Upbeat CAMEX
Optimism and strong attendance, up 10%, mark this year's National Association of College Stores's Campus Market Expo, which closes today.
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Retirement Community Residents Write Surprise WWII Hit
A last-minute addition to the University Press of New England list has become the fastest-selling book in the Hanover, N.H., university press consortium’s 42-year history and its first book to hit Amazon’s top 10. World War II Remembered isn’t even published by one of its regular distribution clients. Instead, UPNE took on the self-published book five days before Christmas to help its neighbors at the Kendal at Hanover retirement community. They had already sold through their thousand-copy first printing when they learned that Brian Williams was interested in airing a segment on NBC.
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CoverCake Covers All the Bases
In a time when social media platforms like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter have become virtually indispensable for promoting and marketing books, wouldn’t it be great if you could push a button and get a complete rundown on what books people are talking about online—positive and negative comments—maybe even get exact quotes? CoverCake is a startup technology platform that claims to be able to do all that and more.
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The Evidence Mounts
Whether it’s figures from the Association of American Publishers or financial reports from individual companies, it is becoming clear that in the early years of the digital transition publishers are finding ways to improve earnings and margins despite slight declines in total revenue as the increase in digital sales is not enough to offset print sales declines.
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Tumblr: Online’s New Frontier for Publishers
No one is coming back to check a publisher’s Web site,” said Rachel Fershleiser, who works in literary strategic outreach at Tumblr, calling to mind a dull Web site that offers a catalogue and not much else. Incentive to come back, Fershleiser said, is the key to building a presence online, something more and more publishers are accomplishing through imaginative ways on Tumblr.
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Lulu Partners with College Stores
The National Association of College Stores’s technology research and development subsidiary, NACS Media Solutions, is launching a partnership with self-publisher Lulu.
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