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Jobs Bio is the Top Seller at Amazon
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was the top selling title on Amazon this year when combining print and e-book sales, the e-tailer reported Monday morning.
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Hollywood's Bodhi Tree Bookstore Still Looking for Last-Minute Buyer
The Hollywood, Calif., bookstore Bodhi Tree, which is set to close on December 31, may still find a new buyer.
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The Amazon Price Check App and The Battle over 'Showrooming'
If “showrooming” wasn’t part of the industry lexicon before last week, it is now, thanks to Amazon’s price check app that gives customers up to $15 in discounts to those who scan prices of products at different stores.
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Beyond Bananagrams
At a time when e-books and e-tailers are capturing a greater portion of the bricks-and-mortar book market, sidelines have become essential for filling the void formerly occupied by books—and keeping cash registers ringing. So much so that when Eileen McGervey opened One More Page in Arlington, Va., in January, she knew that she wanted to have not just books but also wine and chocolate. “That was for people to have multiple reasons to come into the store,” she explains. So far, it’s paying off. Her book sales have been strong, and she’s bringing in more bottles of wine than some restaurants.
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Amazon Backlash Continues to Build
For many booksellers, tomorrow’s discounts of up to $15 for those using Amazon’s price check app was the last straw, even though the app doesn’t apply to books. ABA CEO Oren Teicher, who posted an open letter to Jeff Bezos in Bookselling This Week, was one of many to speak out in Facebook, Twitter, and in the media.
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A Modest Proposal for Amazon
An independent bookseller calls for Amazon to pay for the sales she sends its way.
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Rizzoli Launches Branding Program
Rizzoli has become the latest illustrated book publisher to offer retailers incentives to set up branded sections.
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Booksellers Unhappy With Amazon’s Latest Moves
The combination of Amazon's purchase of Marshall Cavendish Children's Books and the e-tailer's announcement of a December 10 promotion pushing customers to use a price check app in bricks-and-mortar stores, drew angry reactions from some booksellers who claim the two moves heighten the need to examine industry business practices.
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Books & Books Turns Publisher
After opening a string of Books & Books bookstores, including one in the Cayman Islands, owner Mitchell Kaplan, who also produces movies of indie favorites with Polly Mazur through the Mazur/Kaplan Company and cofounded the Miami International Book Fair, is now trying his hand at publishing through B&B Press.
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A Talk with Neil Van Uum
Last November, when Barnes & Noble announced that it was putting itself up for sale, Neil Van Uum’s bank called in the loan for his Joseph-Beth Booksellers chain. The ensuing bankruptcy has since wound down, but only after three of the six JoBeth stores closed—Charlotte, N.C.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Cleveland, Ohio—and the Davis-Kidd store in Nashville. Van Uum lost both the Joseph-Beth and Davis-Kidd names along with the Lexington and Cincinnati stores and a health clinic in Cleveland to his former landlord, Robert Langley, in auction; a fourth store in Virginia went to Books-A-Million. Instead of planning a 25th anniversary celebration for JoBeth, which he cofounded in 1986, Van Uum has spent the past six months since the bankruptcy was resolved renovating the only store in the chain that he kept, the former Davis-Kidd in Memphis, renamed the Booksellers at Laurelwood.
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Authors Guild Hosting Talk With Katherine Paterson
The Authors Guild, as part of its new interview series with authors, is hosting a call with children's book author Katherine Paterson this evening at 7 p.m. EST.
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Resignation Shakes Up Canadian Booksellers Association
Following the resignation of its vice president and incoming president, the Canadian Booksellers Association has shuffled its board members.
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Maple Street Book Shop Opens Two New Stores in 2011
In the space of just three months, the 50-year-old New Orleans bookstore has opened two new locations.
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Saturday Is 'Take Your Child to a Bookstore' Day
This Saturday marks the second annual kids’ bookstore day. After the event launched in November 2010, now more than 250 bookstores in 45 states, Canada, England, and Australia are participating.
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Children's Booksellers Report on Black Friday Weekend
Over Black Friday weekend, the official kickoff for the holiday bookselling season, children's series continued to sell briskly, including Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suzanne Collins Hunger Games trilogy, Christopher Paolini's Inheritance,' and Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series.
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You CAN Go Home Again
Thanks to the renown of co-owner Ann Patchett, Parnassus Books is probably the most celebrated new bookstore in America. The grand opening was less than two weeks ago and already the store has sold through half its opening stock of books.
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ABA Launches Reader App
The American Booksellers Association came closer to its goal of providing a seamless digital reading experience through local independent bookstores with the December 1 launch of the IndieBound Reader.
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Borders Could Earn $32 Million from Kobo Sale
As Borders winds down its bankruptcy, the company is about to complete the sale of one of its most valuable assets: its interest in Kobo.
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B&N Sales Dip, Losses Cut, Forecast Moderate
Barnes & Noble’s second quarter report was a bit of a mixed bag. The company reported a 0.6% decline in total revenue for the period ended October 29, to $1.89 billion, but its net loss was cut to $6.6 million from $12.6 million in the comparable period in fiscal 2011.
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