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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Print Book Sales for the Week Ending September 16, 2012
PW's look at weekly sales of print books based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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Mountains & Plains Booksellers, Reps Share Positive Vibes in Denver
Approximately 400 booksellers descended upon the Renaissance Hotel in northeast Denver Sept. 20-22 for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's annual trade show, which all agreed was a great success.
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Price Transparency as Sales Strategy
Over the past few semesters the University of Kansas Bookstore and a growing number of independent college stores have begun taking advantage of the way students comparison shop for textbooks by sharing their competitors’ prices on their own store’s Web sites and/or pricing books dynamically using that data. “You’d have to be extremely naïve to think students aren’t pasting ISBNs [for course books] on their favorite sites, like Chegg and Amazon,” said James Rourke, assistant director of the University of Kansas Bookstore in Lawrence, Kans. While some stores list pricing for their two biggest competitors, Amazon and Half, others post as many as 10 alternatives plus availability at the local library.
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Coffeeandbooks.com Launches; Virtual Bookstore for Coffee Lovers
Hillcrest Media Group and Dunn Brothers Coffee are partnering to bring books to coffee lovers with Coffeeandbooks.com.
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Kepler’s Launches Arts & Lectures Series
Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, Calif., won't reopen until later this month, but it has already launched Kepler’s Arts & Lectures, which kicks off with an event with Salman Rushdie.
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MIBA Names Livingston as Interim President
The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association announced Monday that bookseller Chris Livingston has been appointed interim president of its board after the unexpected resignation of Lanora Haradon.
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Barbara’s Expands into 40 Macy’s Stores
Chicago-based Barbara’s Bookstore is expanding its model and bringing books to 40 Macy’s locations—from San Francisco to Boston—with dozens more to open in 2013.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 17, 2012
Commentary and analysis about this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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The Art of the Catalogue
It’s been three years since HarperCollins became the first publisher to move to a digital catalogue. Since then Random House has gone entirely paperless, while others, like Perseus Books Group, offer both. Some provide Edelweiss printouts on request. Yet despite the push to digital, a handful of publishers, primarily art and literary houses, are committed not just to print books but to hardcover catalogues with high production values that give greater meaning to their lists.
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Bookstore Sales Up Again in July
Bookstore sales rose 1.2% in July to $981 million, according to estimates released Friday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. The July increase followed a 3.8% gain in June and resulted in a 0.6% increase in bookstore sales for the first seven months of 2012. In the January-July period, bookstore sales hit $7.96 billion.
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Children's Book News from SIBA
There was a heavy dose of children’s books – especially young adult – at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance regional trade show, held September 7-9 in Naples, Fla. Unfortunately the children’s author panels all competed against each other for the same time slot: Friday at 4:10 p.m. The sessions featured 17 children’s authors divided into four panels, many of whom also appeared at Friday's author "SignAround."
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On Demand to Roll Out More Than 100,000 Book Machines Through Kodak and ReaderLink
The bookselling retail landscape is about to change when the 105,000 KODAK Picture Kiosks add Espresso Book Machines, along with many of the retailers serviced by ReaderLink.
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Diesel Bookstore Morphs Into Pop-up Record Store For Chabon’s New Book
To celebrate the release of Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue, Diesel Bookstore in Oakland transformed itself into pop-up record store Brokeland Records, a key fictional location in the novel.
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Haradon Closes Next Chapter Books, Resigns as MIBA President
Lanora Haradon, owner of The Next Chapter Bookshop, abruptly closed her store Tuesday morning and resigned as president of MIBA, effective immediately.
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SIBA Kicks Off the Regional Trade Show Season and ABA’s Kobo Road Show
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s September 7-9 annual meeting held in Naples, Fla., kicked off not only the regional fall trade show season, but the American Booksellers Association’s road show.
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Black Dog & Leventhal Launches Bookseller Contest with ABA
To celebrate the publication of My Bookstore (Nov.), Black Dog & Leventhal is launching a contest in conjunction with the ABA for booksellers on "Why My Bookstore Matters."
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ReKiosk Tries an Indie Online Sales Model
Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the lack of online storefronts where they could sell their titles.
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Prospering with Used Books
A dozen years ago, Bob Ticehurst, then 22, quit his day job as an accountant, moved into his parents’ basement in Arlington, Mass., and became one of the first used-book sellers on Amazon’s Marketplace. Since then “MarineBob,” his original handle, has grown his online used-book business under the Got Books name. Today his offices are located in a 69,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Wilmington, Mass., and the books he sells no longer come mostly from friends. Instead he gets them through nearly 500 Got Books donation containers in New England, operated in partnership primarily with nonprofit organizations that get paid based on the number of books, CDs, and DVDs they collect. By August 2008, Got Books had collected so many books that it added a sister company, Used Book Superstore, to sell off part of its used-book inventory, along with new and bargain titles. There are now four 13,000-sq.-ft. UBS bookstores within a 20-minute drive of the warehouse. But that’s about to change.
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Ingram to Distribute Kobo eReaders to Indie Bookstores
Just one week after the ABA announced that it will partner with Kobo to sell e-books, the organization said that Ingram Content Group will be the exclusive distributor of Kobo eReaders.
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