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HMH Extends Retail Terms
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has extended its retail payment terms (exclusive of Distribution Centers) from net 30 days from date of invoice to net 90 days from date of invoice. The new terms begin June 1.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 20, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Astoria Bookshop to Open in August
After a long search for the right space for a general bookstore in the Astoria section of Queens, N.Y., Connie Rourke and Lexi Beach signed a lease.
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Community Bookstore to Open (Mostly) Used Bookstore
For the third time in less than a year a Brooklyn bookstore is expanding, this time from Park Slope to nearby Windsor Terrace, which had been the home of Babbo's Books.
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GLIBA Announces Annual Award
The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association will present the Great Lakes, Great Reads award annually at the Heartland Fall Forum to its members's single favorite frontlist title.
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Children's Bookselling: An Expansion and an Addition on the East Coast
While the number of children's-only bookstores may be dwindling, on the East Coast the ranks are growing with the addition of Edgewater Books near Annapolis, Md., and the expansion of Park Street Books & Toys in Medfield, Mass.
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Obituary: Milane Christiansen, 70
Milane Christiansen, who founded and ran the Book Works in Del Mar, Calif. for 30 years,died April 21 from complications of ALS.
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As One Bookstore Closes, Another Opens
A month after Booked for Murder, a 25-year-old Madison, Wisc. bookstore closes, a new bookstore with the same inventory, Mystery to Me, will open less than a mile away, near the UW-Madison football stadium.
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March Bookstore Sales Rose 1.1%
Bookstore sales in March rose 1.1%, to $931 million, according to preliminary estimates released Monday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. For the first quarter of 2013, bookstore sales were up 2.2%, to $4.03 billion, compared to the first quarter of 2012.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending May 5, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Making Nonprofit Stores Pay Off
When Granada Books opens in downtown Santa Barbara, Calif., next month, it will operate on a hybrid model with a for-profit bookstore and a not-for-profit event series, Pomegranate Arts.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 13, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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B&N Opens New Store in Indianapolis
The store to replace Barnes & Noble's Clearwater Crossing store will carry over 60,000 books and have a NOOK Boutique and an expanded children’s department.
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Joseph-Beth Pops Up
Joseph-Beth Booksellers is the latest bookstore to experiment with a pop-up location.
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Book House Launches Fundraising Campaign
The Book House, the St. Louis bookstore being evicted from its current retail space, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000 to relocate.
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Microsoft to Buy Nook Media?
Barnes & Noble had no comment on a report in TechCrunch that Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion for Nook Media, the B&N unit that houses its digital assets as well as the college stores. Microsoft and Pearson both hold stakes in the company.
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Coursera Partners with Chegg to Deliver Free Content
The deal gives online learning company Coursera's students access to course materials from Cengage Learning, Macmillan Higher Education, SAGE, and other publishers.
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Changes Afoot for Whale of a Tale Children's Bookstore
After running Whale of a Tale Children's Bookstore in Irvine, Calif. for 25 years, owner Alex Uhl looks forward to a smaller space and reduced schedule.
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Marketplace Fairness Act Sails Through Senate
After 69 to 27 vote yesterday evening to allow states to collect taxes from online sellers, the bill goes to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Borders Bankruptcy Wends On
More than two years after it filed for bankruptcy, the nation's former number two bookseller is going after the $485 million it paid in the 90-day period before it filed.
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