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Bookazine Opens Today
After being forced by Hurricane Sandy to close for just over a week, Bookazine in Bayonne, N.J., resumed full operations this morning.
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Nominations Open for Pannell Awards
WNBA is now accepting nominations for the 30th annual Pannell Award for children’s bookselling, one for a general bookstore and one for a children's specialty store.
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Bedtime Stories for Grownups Plays to Second Sellout
At the sold-out November 2 event in Eugene, Oregon’s WOW Hall, Portland authors Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain, and Chuck Palahniuk gave another raucous performance of their “Bedtime Stories for Grownups,” the second such event that gave 400 fans—and the authors—a chance to wear pajamas in public, cuddle with stuffed animals, and listen to spooky stories.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for the Week of 11/5/12
PW's weekly look at print book sales based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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Bookazine Update
Bookazine's New Jersey warehouse is still without power, but the wholesaler is posting status updates on its Bookazine.com Web site.
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Robin’s Book Store to Close, Events Series to Continue
Philadelphia’s oldest bookstore, 76-year-old Robin’s Book Store, will close at the end of the year.
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Problems with Display Units Dim Kobo Glo
Some booksellers report difficulties with their Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini display units, which arrived late last week. Touch screens aren’t working due to tight security clamps.
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Transportation Bookstores Take Cues from Indies
Transportation centers jumped on the "shop local" bandwagon decades ago.
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YA Bookstore Opens Within General Bookstore in St. Paul
Two St. Paul, Minn., bookstores recently opened their doors with an unusual business model: Addendum, a specialty YA bookstore, is housed inside Subtext, an 1,800-square-foot general bookstore.
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Children's Booksellers Optimistic at PNBA Show
The change in venue from an airport hotel in Portland to an independent hotel in Tacoma helped make this year's Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association three-day show particularly vibrant for children's booksellers
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Bookazine Undamaged
Bookazine COO Richard Kallman reports that the wholesaler's facility is undamaged. “We shut everything down in preparation for the storm. Everything is fine,” he says. The company is just waiting for electricity.
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Bookstores After Sandy: powerHouse Arena Rebuilds
No New York bookstore suffered as much damage from Hurricane Sandy as powerHouse Arena in Dumbo: two days after 14 feet of water flooded the store, CEO of powerHouse Books and Arena Daniel Power estimated damages at $50,000.
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Hurricane Sandy: Most Booksellers Doing All Right
Just as some neighborhoods were spared and others hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, the same was true for bookstores. Many stores in areas with tropical force winds opened on Tuesday.
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BINC Ready to Help in Sandy’s Wake
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is there to assist booksellers facing severe hardship due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Canadian Booksellers Association Prepares to Join RCC
Facing financial and other pressures, the Canadian Booksellers Association voted October 18 to become a division of the Retail Council of Canada, which CBA has been affiliated with since 2009.
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New Look for Left Bank Books
In their application for the Bookstore Make-Over Contest sponsored by the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates to mark its 20th anniversary, Kris Kleindienst and Jarek Steele, owners of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., wrote, “Frankly, [the store’s] looking really tired at this point and the layout does not work for us at all anymore.”
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Self-Publishing Rules the EBM at Indies
When On Demand Books introduced its Espresso Book Machine to the U.S. book trade in 2008 by installing a beta model at Northshire Books in Manchester Center, Vt., the company promoted it as a tool for printing backlist titles and books in the public domain, as well as for authors who wanted to self-publish.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 29, 2012
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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Penguin Offers New Partnership Program for Indies
Penguin will launch a program for independent booksellers, which was developed in response to ABA CEO Teicher's call for new business models.
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