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Strong Sales of Kids' Books and Other Titles Energizes NEIBA Show
The New England Booksellers Association’s 39th annual fall conference, held Oct. 3–5 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, opened with high energy, which it largely sustained throughout the three-day show.
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B&N Customers Suffer Identity Theft Scheme
Barnes & Noble has been hacked. The retailer said that there was "tampering with PIN pad devices" in 63 of its stores, all related to "one compromised PIN pad" in each location.
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Children's Authors and Booksellers Get Noticed at NAIBA
The theme of this year's New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference, held in Arlington, Va., was Get Noticed. For many booksellers, tips on how to get noticed by publishers proved a big draw.
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Books of Wonder Looks to indiegogo for Help
New York City's oldest children's-only bookstore, Books of Wonder, launches a campaign to raise $100,000 on indiegogo.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Print Book Sales for the Week Ending October 14, 2012
PW's weekly look at sales of trade print books based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 22, 2012
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Canadian Booksellers Association Votes on Retail Council Merger
Canadian Booksellers Association voted yesterday to "explore becoming a division" of the Retail Council of Canada.
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Random House Once Again Offers Holiday Shipping Special
Random House announced Thursday afternoon that beginning November 1 it will once again implement its two-day transit program for this year’s holiday season for all books across all imprints.
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Optimism at Pacific Northwest
Despite financial concerns, PNBA's three-day tradeshow in Tacoma, which ended yesterday, drew new booksellers and got high marks from vendors.
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Bookstore Sales Dipped in August
Bookstore sales dipped less than 1% in August, falling to $2.38 billion from $2.40 billion in August 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Print Book Sales for the Week Ending October 7, 2012
PW's weekly look at print book sales based on numbers from Nielsen BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 15, 2012
Analysis and commentary on this week's PW Bestsellers lists.
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An Energized Heartland Forum
According to Deb Leonard, the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association’s executive director, the secret to the first Heartland Fall Forum’s success was that she and Carrie Obry, her counterpart at the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, “took the best of both shows and created something unique.” Judging by the smiles on the faces of the show’s 770 attendees—364 of them booksellers doing business in 13 Midwestern states—mixing together GLIBA’s strengths in education and MIBA’s creativity with author events exceeded all expectations. The Heartland forum indeed turned out to be much greater than the sum of its many parts. If there was one word both exhibitors and booksellers used over and over in discussing the show with PW, it was “energy.”
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Amazon Starts Author Ranking Feature
Amazon has launched a new “Author Rank” feature on its site. The new ranking is based on cumulative sales of all books by each author.
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Nook Tablet Pre-Orders Sky High, Lynch Tells Investors
At a Wednesday afternoon Liberty Media investor conference Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that pre-orders for the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets were running 240% higher than previous Nook launches.
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Nook Tablet Pre-Orders Sky High, Lynch Tells Investors
At a Wednesday afternoon Liberty Media investor conference Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that pre-orders for the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets were running 240% higher than previous Nook launches.
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MIBA Appoints New President to Replace Haradon
The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association has appointed a new president to head its board: Tripp Ryder, general trade manager at Carleton College Bookstore in Northfield, Minn., will assume the duties immediately.
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New Jersey Bookshop with a Mission – to Help Autistic Kids
Former attorney Jonah Zimiles, who founded [words] bookstore in Maplewood, N.J., three years ago with his wife, attorney Ellen Zimiles, is the first to admit that they are not typical bookstore owners.
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Heartland Fall Forum Gets Positive Reviews
The first Heartland Fall Forum was described by many as the best regional gathering they’d attended in years.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 8, 2012
Commentary and analysis of this week's PW Bestsellers lists.