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Prairie Pages South Dakota's 2012 Retailer of the Year
Prairie Pages Bookseller in Pierre named South Dakota's 2012 retailer of the year.
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Chelsea Green Goes Commission
After trying to represent its own books for the past six years, Chelsea Green Publishing is moving back to commission reps. Starting this week with the spring 2012 list, five groups will carry the Vermont-based publisher’s books in their bags.
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Kansas City Holds Onto Mystery Bookstore, Gets Another
Kansas City mystery bookstore stays open, but another mystery bookstore is slated to open nearby.
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Strong Finish to a Tough Year
Three stores in PW’s informal coast-to-coast survey of bookstores—Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.; Beaverdale Books in Des Moines, Iowa; and Skylight Books in Los Angeles—called this their best holiday season ever.
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Feminist Bookstore True Colors To Close in February
True Colors Bookstore in Minneapolis, Minn., called "the oldest independent feminist bookstore in North America," will close at the end of February "barring a miracle," according to owner Ruta Skujins.
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Ivy Bookshop to Change Hands at Year’s End
Almost exactly a decade after it was founded, The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, Md., is starting a new chapter.
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Epicurious Offers Digital Cookbooks
This week Epicurious.com began offering 75 Random House e-cookbooks by bestselling authors like Bobby Flay, Alice Waters, and Lidia Bastianich, ranging in price from $10.99 to $24.99.
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Be One of the Five Thousand
Independent publisher Dan Simon, who runs Seven Stories Press, offers a way for consumers to empower bricks-and-mortar booksellers during this holiday season.
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Borders Creditors to Get About 10 Cents on the Dollar
With this morning's court approval of Borders's liquidation plan and the sale of its Kobo interest and IP addresses, publishers will do better than expected in terms of recouping their losses with the bankrupt chain. While Borders originally anticipated paying 4¢ to 10¢ on the dollar to creditors, it will likely be at the high end and could even exceed that, according to attorney Andrew Glenn.
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Appazoogle & the Next Generation
So what does the next generation make of the way digital books are roiling the publishing industry? “I’m ready to adapt,” says Jen Bray, after completing a course on Amazon, Apple, and Google, or Appazoogle, in Emerson College’s graduate program in Writing, Publishing, and Literature. “In the beginning I was all about the book. I’ve changed.”
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The Amazon Workaround
Fear that Amazon will come to dominate the bookselling market is nothing new in the publishing industry. But last week, as booksellers continued to decry the company’s price check app (which could be used to access prices on booksellers’ sideline items, like toys and DVDs) and as information about Amazon’s aggressive demands to publishers regarding co-op and retail discounts surfaced, some insiders began suggesting that the time had come to actively explore ways to lessen publishers’ dependence on the e-tailer.
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Google eBooks One Year Later
Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Group’s recent “Showrooming” study, while the number of people who read both print books and e-books has grown from 25% in 2010 to 37%, few are doing it through Google.
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Nook Headed to the U.K.?
Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble’s v-p of digital content, told delegates at the Publishers Association’s International Conference in the U.K., “I imagine in the not-too-distant future you’ll be able to have the device here.”
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Distribution: Sheridan House Back to NBN
Sheridan House, the independent publisher with books on sailing, travel, adventure, and mariner fiction, has returned to National Book Network for sales and distribution after a ten-year hiatus. Lothar and Jeannine Simon remain as the publishers for Sheridan House, which has more than 250 active titles including the popular fiction line of Nathaniel Drinkwater titles.
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Is Amazon Pushing Publishers to Brink On Terms, Co-op?
Last week Amazon caused something of a furor ith its reveal of a price check app consumers could use in bricks and mortar stores to then get discounts at the e-tailer. Although the price check app remains a hot topic, what has publishers more riled, behind the scenes, is aggressive moves the retailer is making in its demands on co-op and retail discounts.
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California Bill Will Provide Free Digital Textbooks
California is trying to rollback the price of state schools, but not by lowering tuition. Instead State Senate president Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) announced that he will propose legislation to give undergraduates free access to digital textbooks for 50 lower-division college courses. Print versions would be made available for about $20.
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La Casa Azul Bookstore to Open in the Spring
After five years of studying business and bookselling, 33-year-old Aurora Anaya-Cerda has signed a lease to turn her three-year-old online bookstore, LaCasaAzulBookstore.com, into a bricks-and-mortar bilingual store in East Harlem.
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Distribution: Turner Joining IPS, Hachette Renews Chronicle
Beginning January 1, Ingram Publishers Services will take over distribution for Turner Publishing. Turner will maintain sales and marketing functions and will work with Ingram to expand the reach of its content worldwide.
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October Bookstore Sale Fell 6.6%
After posting surprisingly large gains in August and September, bookstore sales fell 6.6% in October, to $886 million, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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