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O'Connor to Head Revamped ABC Group
Former bookseller Shannon O'Connor has been tapped as manager of the ABC Children's Group at the American Booksellers Association.
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Odyl Launches Facebook Marketing Platform for Publishing
Forget Web sites. If online social marketing platform Odyl (www.odyl.net) gets its way, authors and publishers will migrate to Facebook and use its SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform--launching today-- to offer content, trace metrics, handle giveaways, and import blog posts and Twitter feeds.
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St. Mark's Bookshop Finds Local Support in Petition
Late last week, a petition called "Save the St. Mark's Bookshop" appeared online, stating that the neighborhood landmark needs a lower rent agreement from landlord Cooper Union in order to stay open.
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Phoenix Books Adds Gallery
Since its founding in 2007, Phoenix Books and Cafe in Essex, Vt., has supported local artists by exhibiting works by members of the Essex Art League. Now the bookstore is devoting more space to art by joining the Vermont Crafts Council as a gallery.
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Summer’s Over, How Did Bookstores Do?
Clearly, 2011 will not be considerered a stellar year for a wide swath of bookselling: Borders is in the midst of closing its remaining stores; Books-A-Million has had two disappointing quarters, and Barnes & Noble’s growth is coming primarily from e-books and the Nook, while print, as everywhere, declines.
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Few Takers for Borders’s Small-Format Stores
Only eight stores drew bidders out of 150 leases in the first round of auctions, which was cancelled. The second round, for large-format stores, is slated for Tuesday. The $1.75 million severance package for managers was also approved.
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Books-A-Million Closing Two Outlets
Books-A-Million is not only taking over the leases of a number of Borders locations, but it is also closing some stores. According to reports in two local publications, BAM will close outlets in Florence, S.C. and Asheville, N.C. by September 17.
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Ukazoo Books to Quadruple Number of Stores
It’s not only Books-A-Million that is benefiting from Borders closings. Online third-party bookseller Ukazoo Books will add a former Borders Express in Southgate, Mich., and one in Philly this week.
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Borders: Bonus for Some, Class Action for Others
When the Key Employee Incentive Plan, or KEIP, was approved in April, it was intended to encourage Borders’s senior management to stay on and either reorganize Borders or sell it as a going concern. Now the company is back in court requesting a bonus package for management, which totals $1.75 million.
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Rapid City Loses Borders, Gains New Indie
In Rapid City, Mitzi’s Main Street Books’s new owner hopes that his new independent bookstore will not only draw people downtown, but will also fill the void left by the Borders store slated for closure this month.
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Village Books Adds Pop-up Store
Village Books in Bellingham, Wash., is the latest retailer to experiment with a pop-up store. Next month the 31-year-old bookstore will open a 3,000 sq. ft. holiday store at the Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham, which had a Waldenbooks store that closed in January 2010.
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After Borders: New Tenants In Former Borders Stores
Although Books-A-Million garnered attention for its acquisition of 14 Borders locations last week, many former Borders stores are about to have other new tenants.
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Free E-Book Rockets Up Amazon Charts
A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio by NPR's legendary broadcaster Bob Edwards went all the way up to #79 from #100,000 on Amazon's Kindle Free Bestseller list yesterday. University Press of Kentucky has put up the book for free for Amazon's Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Google ebookstore. The book will be free until September 9. More information here.
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Irene: Tallying the Costs
In addition to catastrophic losses like Bartleby’s Books, which was destroyed along with much of the town of Wilmington, Vt., Vermont booksellers could lose most of the fall leaf-peeping season.
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Bookstores Gear Up for Banned Books Reading
Booksellers around the country are responding to the Internet read-out that is the focus of this year’s Banned Books Week, Sept. 24-Oct. 1. Bookstores are planning events during which they will create videos of customers reading from their favorite banned books.
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Booksellers Compile Lists of Their Favorite Books
A St. Paul bookseller has asked booksellers for lists of their top 50 reads or handsells of all time. The lists will be made available to all participating booksellers, as well as posted on social media websites.
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Borders Auction Cancelled
Two days after Books-A-Million closed on 14 Borders locations in advance of today’s auction for small-format and airport stores, the auction was cancelled. According to court filings, Borders received two qualified bids for the its Snellville, Ga., location (store #208), and will hold a telephonic auction for that lease. One qualified bid was received for each of seven other first round leases.
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Diesel Books to Reopen in New Malibu Location
Diesel Books, which was forced to close its Malibu store in February after a seven-year run because of a dispute with its former landlord, received an executed lease yesterday from the owner of the Malibu Country Mart and will begin setting up shop in the new space in three weeks.
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Books of Wonder to (Temporarily) Change Name
On September 13 the New York City children's bookstore, Books of Wonder, is changing its name to Books of Wonderstruck in celebration of Brian Selznick's new book, Wonderstruck, published by Scholastic Press.
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With Digital Up 140% at B&N, Sales Rise, Loss Falls
Driven by a 140% increase in digital content and Nook sales, Barnes & Noble reported a 2% increase in total revenue for the first quarter ended July 30, to $1.42 billion. Its loss fell to $56.6 million from $62.5 million. B&N said it expects all Nook and digital sales for the full fiscal year to jump to $1.8 billion from $880 million last year.
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