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"Kepler's 2020" To Emerge as Prototype of Community Bookstore of the Future
The Kepler's Transition Team has been created to launch "Kepler's 2020" and transform the historic bookstore into a community-owned-and-operated indie business model.
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Bodhi Tree Is Coming Back
The Bodhi Tree Bookstore, which closed its doors after 41 years at the end of December, has been sold and will re-emerge near its former West Hollywood location on Melrose Avenue.
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Spring Launch for Bookish
At a brief presentation at Digital Book World, new Bookish CEO Caroline Marks said the launch for the Web site is now expected to come this spring. The site had originally hoped to start last fall; Marks took over for Bookish's first CEO, Paulo Lemgruber, in October.
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Malaprop's Celebrates 30 Years With Collaborative Novel
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, N.C., co-owners Linda Barrett Knopp and Brian Lee Knopp enlisted ten North Carolina writers for a collaborative serial novel set in Malaprop’s hometown.
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Booksellers Explain How to Make Friends and Influence People
More than 150 booksellers crowded into a hotel meeting room during Wi7 to learn from three stars in the children's bookselling world how they too can become "hometown stars with children's books."
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Wi7: Bookselling Renaissance Extends to Children's
The American Booksellers Association's Winter Institute, held last week in New Orleans, came just weeks after a holiday season that showcased the vitality and viability of independent bookstores.
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Outwrite Books & Coffeehouse Closes Its Doors
Outwrite Books & Coffeehouse, which has served Atlanta’s GLBT community since 1993, announced this morning that, as of today, the store is closed for business.
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Indie Bookstores Growing—and On the Move
Just weeks after the start of the new year change is afoot at a number of indies, including going permanent (Word Up in upper Manhattan), moving (Newtonville Books in Newtonville, Mass.), and expanding (Idlewild Books in New York City).
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Fairmount Books to Close
One of North America’s largest bargain book wholesalers, 29-year-old Fairmount Books will shut its doors, possibly as early as March. "We are absolutely not going bankrupt,” says founder and president Marty Cutler.
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Ammo Books: Publishing in Small, Medium, and Large
For an indie publisher to launch its first line with a $300 art book takes guts and vision, but that’s what Ammo Books’ founders Paul Norton and Steve Crist did in 2006 when they published 3,000 copies of Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson and sold out in less than a year.
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Building Community at Winter Institute
The trade show earns high marks from booksellers and publishers as it moves from inspirational talks to the nuts-and-bolts of boosting sales.
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Optimism Prevails at Winter Institute
With a trio of talks by bestselling author Ann Patchett, Ingram's Skip Prichard, and ABA CEO Oren Teicher, the 7th annual Winter Institute officially got underway in the Big Easy with an inspiring morning session.
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Powell's To Get Espresso Book Machine
Powell's Books will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore.
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Buzz Books at Winter Institute
With so many writers heading to the show, from debut novelists like Brandon Jones to seasoned writers like Julianna Baggott, PW asked a cross-section of publishers to pick the most buzz-worthy books at this year's Winter Institute. After the jump, 14 titles everyone is talking about...
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The Buzz Books of Winter Institute
With the ABA’s seventh Winter Institute starting today in New Orleans, we present a second look at some of the hot books that will be featured at this year’s event. The titles first appeared in the January 6 issue of PW.
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Needed: Bookseller/Rep Of the Year
For the 20th time in our history, PW will award its annual honor celebrating the best in the retail book space. At this year’s BookExpo America in New York City, the magazine will be handing out its Bookstore of the Year and Sales Rep of the Year awards. The award winners will also be profiled in our pre-BEA issue. But we need nominations, so e-mail your recommendations along with reasons supporting your choices to PWawards@publishersweekly.com.
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L.L. Bean Turns 100
Best known for its hunting boots, which according to a recent report in the Associated Press have ousted Uggs and Crocs as the must-have footwear on college campuses, 100-year-old L.L.Bean has begun hitting the books, hard. The family-owned retailer, which reported net sales of $1.44 billion in 2010, has long had a book department at its flagship store in Freeport, Maine, which founder Leon Leonwood Bean opened in 1917. And it carries maps, road atlases, and hiking guides at its nearly 20 retail stores outside of Maine. Now, as part of its anniversary celebration, Bean is heavily promoting three tie-in books on the llbean.com Web site and in its print catalogues, even pricing the books competitively with Amazon.
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New Leaf Restores Friday Hours
Saying that “things seem to be looking up,” Alim Thompson, CEO of New Leaf Distributing Company and New Leaf Sales and Distribution Services, said the company has restored its Friday hours. New Leaf had cut back to four days a week two years ago when business slumped.
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Bookstore Sales Dropped 8.6% in November
Bookstore sales had their steepest decline in the year in November, falling 8.6%, to $941 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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