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Books-A-Million Posts a 2012 Profit
Books-A-Million reported net income of $2.5 million for the year ended February 2, 2013 compared to a loss of $2.8 million in the prior year. Sales rose 7.5%, to $503.8 million, despite a 3.6% decline in comparable store sales.
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Inkwood Books Sold
Inkwood Books has been sold to a new owner after a successful 21 year run. The new owner, long-time customer Stefani Beddingfield, will keep on former co-owner Leslie Reiner as consultant.
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Obituary: Frank Moster
Long-time commission rep, Frank Moster of Melman-Moster Associates Inc., died on Sunday from a rare and fast-moving cancer. He was 69. He began his career in the book business at Macmillan in 1965. He also held positions at Holt, Rinehart & Winston; Hawthorne Books; Little, Brown; and Watson-Guptill before becoming a commission rep in 1983. The funeral liturgy will be held on Wednesday March 27 at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mahwah, N.J.
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Marketplace Fairness Act Gets Closer
With Friday’s Senate vote of 75 to 24 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act amendment to the FY 2014 budget resolution, bricks-and-mortar retailers were heartened that e-fairness could become a reality this year.
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Art Books' Future Now: Art & Photography Books 2013
Borders’s closure in 2011 served as a gloomy backdrop for the panel at the New York Public Library on February 12, “The Future of Art Book Publishing,” whose title carried a hint of bad news for catalogues and monographs.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending March 17, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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GABBS & SIBA: A Successful Start
For the latest edition of the Great American Bargain Book Show (GABBS), held March 14–17, the organizers partnered with Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) in their new location at the AmericasMart Atlanta.
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This Week's Bestselling Books: March 25, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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CDI College Chooses Ingram’s VitalSource Bookshelf
One of Canada’s leading career training institutions has signed an agreement with Ingram's platform for e-textbook management and distribution.
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Obituary: Dan deLellis (1937-2013)
Former Harvard Coop book director Dan deLellis will be buried on Saturday. DeLellis also worked at The Paper Store.
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Hudson Booksellers Poised to Take Off Online
Hudson Booksellers, the largest airport bookseller, is the latest bricks-and-mortar store to launch a Web site with the ABA's IndieCommerce platform—and to sell Kobo e-books.
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Hastings Cutting Back on Books
Hastings Entertainment said it is cutting back the space devoted to books, music and rental as it rolls out new products in an expanded electronics department and adds to its trends section.
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Facts & Figures 2012: All Our Coverage
Our annual collection of sales numbers for books sold in the last calendar year provides a clear picture of where the business of books is headed—e-books.
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The Bestselling E-books of 2012
A snapshot of the e-book industry today shows more than 1,000 e-books with sales of 25,000+. And while our survey of publishers is by no means complete, it's more than enough to prove that the book business is quickly moving to digital.
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The Highs and Lows in Paperbacks: Facts & Figures 2012
Looking at 2012’s huge drop in the number of mass market bestsellers with sales of more than 500,000 copies is alarming. In 2012, only 26 titles hit that figure and only three in the group reached the million mark.
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In Hardcover, the Big Didn’t Get Bigger: Facts & Figures 2012
Last year at the end of this annual bestseller article, we made the obvious prediction that unit sales for hardcover bestsellers would be even lower for 2012 books and that the “e-book explosion could be the culprit.”
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 18, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Bookmasters Partners with Classroom Library Co. on K-12
Classroom Library will begin selling Bookmasters’s lines of educational and children’s books with Express Publishing’s English Language Learning products and Stephen Cosgrove’s Serendipity series.
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Succession: Selling a Bookstore
One day after Porter Square Books announced that it is for sale, NEIBA offered member stores a workshop on "Planning Your Bookstore's Next Chapter."
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