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Edelweiss to Add NAIPR’s Frontlist Plus Universal
As part of a new cooperative venture, Frontlist Plus Universal, the online title-management tool developed by NAIPR, will join forces with Treeline’s Edelweiss.
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Nebraska Book Company Closing More Stores
Nebraska Book Company took one more step toward emerging from chapter 11 bankruptcy with the filing of a Second Amended Plan for Reorganization.
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Home Depot Confirms Plan to End 'Majority' of Book Sales
Two days after PW’s report that The Home Depot would no longer be selling books, the home-improvement superstore released an official statement on the matter.
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Once Upon A Crime Celebrates Trio of Anniversaries
The Minneapolis mystery bookstore is marking three anniversaries, including its 25th, with a mystery and crime fiction anthology, edited by the owners, to launch on April 7.
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Home Depot To Stop Selling Books
In a letter to publishers sent Friday, nation-wide retailer The Home Depot announced that they would no longer be selling books in order to “better optimize the space in the front end of the store.”
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Upbeat CAMEX
Optimism and strong attendance, up 10%, mark this year's National Association of College Stores's Campus Market Expo, which closes today.
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Retirement Community Residents Write Surprise WWII Hit
A last-minute addition to the University Press of New England list has become the fastest-selling book in the Hanover, N.H., university press consortium’s 42-year history and its first book to hit Amazon’s top 10. World War II Remembered isn’t even published by one of its regular distribution clients. Instead, UPNE took on the self-published book five days before Christmas to help its neighbors at the Kendal at Hanover retirement community. They had already sold through their thousand-copy first printing when they learned that Brian Williams was interested in airing a segment on NBC.
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CoverCake Covers All the Bases
In a time when social media platforms like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter have become virtually indispensable for promoting and marketing books, wouldn’t it be great if you could push a button and get a complete rundown on what books people are talking about online—positive and negative comments—maybe even get exact quotes? CoverCake is a startup technology platform that claims to be able to do all that and more.
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The Evidence Mounts
Whether it’s figures from the Association of American Publishers or financial reports from individual companies, it is becoming clear that in the early years of the digital transition publishers are finding ways to improve earnings and margins despite slight declines in total revenue as the increase in digital sales is not enough to offset print sales declines.
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Tumblr: Online’s New Frontier for Publishers
No one is coming back to check a publisher’s Web site,” said Rachel Fershleiser, who works in literary strategic outreach at Tumblr, calling to mind a dull Web site that offers a catalogue and not much else. Incentive to come back, Fershleiser said, is the key to building a presence online, something more and more publishers are accomplishing through imaginative ways on Tumblr.
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Lulu Partners with College Stores
The National Association of College Stores’s technology research and development subsidiary, NACS Media Solutions, is launching a partnership with self-publisher Lulu.
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Taking E-books to the Next Level
Despite technological petting zoos, QR codes on shelf-talkers linked to bookstores’ Web sites, and in-store displays of physical books with signage reminding readers that they can also buy e-editions, only a handful of independents are making more than about $100 or so on e-book sales a month. To help, some indie publishers, including Algonquin and Sourcebooks, have begun, or are about to begin, programs directed toward helping independent bookstores build a following among e-book fans. (See sidebar on facing page.) At the same time, booksellers are asking whether they need a reader of their own to crack the e-book market in a meaningful way.
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Maine's Owl & Turtle For Sale
Older stores are going on the sales block at an accelerated pace. Forty-one-year-old Owl & Turtle Bookshop in Camden, Maine, is for sale.
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Points of Sale: Tips for Children’s Booksellers
This column grew from first-hand experience that many of the best bookselling ideas come from other booksellers. Each tip offers an inventive way to solve problems that you may not have even been aware of: like making series stand out.
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XanEdu & Flat World Partner on Customized Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge, publisher of open college textbooks, and XanEdu Publishing, which delivers print and digital custom course materials, announced a new partnership.
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Google to Reinstate Indie Affiliates
After notifying some independent bookseller Google eBook affiliates that they will be removed from the program as of March 15, Google is now working on reinstating them.
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Amazon, NACS Settle Suit
The National Association of College Stores and Amazon have resolved their differences over the latter’s online text advertising claims about textbook prices last spring.
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Mr. Paperback Chain to Close
New England is losing one of its last regional chains with Mr. Paperback’s decision to close at the end of April. The 50-year-old ten-store chain had been the largest in Maine.
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City Lights Gets Its Own Blog
San Francisco's famous City Lights bookstore has launched its own blog: Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here. The blog already has interviews, profiles, and think pieces, updated daily.
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Taking E-books to the Next Level
Despite technological petting zoos, QR codes on shelf-talkers linked to bookstores’ Web sites, and in-store displays of physical books with signage reminding readers that they can also buy e-editions, only a handful of independents are making more than about $100 or so on e-book sales a month. To help, some indie publishers, including Algonquin and Sourcebooks, have begun, or are about to begin, programs directed toward helping independent bookstores build a following among e-book fans. (See sidebar on facing page.) At the same time, booksellers are asking whether they need a reader of their own to crack the e-book market in a meaningful way.
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