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Follett to Open New Wholesale HQ & Distribution Center
Follett Higher Education Group is moving the headquarters for its wholesale and virtual bookstore businesses to a new distribution center to open soon in Aurora, Ill.
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NBN Reshuffles Sales Team
In the wake of John Groton’s departure last month after just over a year as v-p of sales, National Book Network has reorganized its sales team. As part of the company’s second reorganization this year, NBN rehired Spencer Gale, brought on Ron Powers, former v-p of sales for national accounts at Ingram Content Group, and promoted Jason Brockwell.
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National Launch for "Shift Your Shopping"
A holiday shopping campaign begun two years ago by local first groups in Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., is going national this year through a collaboration between AMIBA (American Independent Business Alliance) and BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies).
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Obituary: Daniel Moore (1950-2012)
Long-time bookseller Daniel Moore, who co-founded McIntyre & Moore, Booksellers in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983, died on October 30.
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A Hardcover Boom
While sales of hardcover titles are declining for most publishers and retailers, Forever Books in St. Joseph, Mich., a tourist town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, reports that its hardcover sales are booming. Robin Allen, who has owned the store for 13 years, attributes the trend to the store’s staff. Not only do they present new and upcoming releases at a book club symposium held at the store three times each year, they also write effective shelf-talker reviews of new hardcover releases.
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Riggio Expresses Optimism in PubWest Keynote
In his keynote speech at PubWest's annual conference Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio said he remains optimistic about the future of bookselling and publishing, seeing the growth of digital as generating more content as well as more readers.
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Mall Developer Sues Indiana to Force Amazon to Collect Sales Tax
Indiana mall developer Simon Property Group, owned by billionaire real estate developer Herbert Simon, who also owns Kirkus Reviews, has filed suit against the state of Indiana to force the state to collect taxes on sales made through Amazon.com.
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Two Questions for a Bookseller
Jef Blocker, a manager at Atlanta’s six-year-old Bound to be Read Books, fills us in on some spooky happenings among the stacks.
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What's Selling at Tuesday Books
Of her "many, many favorites" of the season, Beth Phelps, co-owner of Tuesday Books in Williamston, Mich., chose a few books that she and her colleagues are especially pleased to be selling this fall.
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It's a Wrap, for Wimpy Kid 6
You can't miss it. What looks like a 46-foot-long, 12-foot-high mural, on West 112th Street in New York City is actually a ginormous sticker announcing publication of the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid installment, Cabin Fever, due on November 15.
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HugoBooks Adds Fourth Store in Swampscott
At a time when many businesses are contracting, 46-year-old HugoBooks is making good on a long-held plan to expand beyond its original three Massachusetts stores—The Spirit of ’76 in Marblehead, Andover Bookstore in Andover, and The Book Rack Bookstore in Newburyport.
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Taschen Gets Branding
When the Art Institute of Chicago opened a Taschen “shop within a shop” in June, it was not only the first time that a museum store created a special section just for books from publisher, but it also marked the launch of a Taschen branding effort at bookstores in North America.
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Clarification on NCIBA Story
In our article of the NCIBA meeting, the membership program for the ABC Group at ABA was mischaracterized. ABA members can join the ABC Group for an extra $50 per year. Shannon O’Connor is manager of the ABC Group at ABA.
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Bowker Back Online After Nor'easter Causes Outage
After the storm that hit parts of the East Coast on Saturday left ISBN provider Bowker without power, the company is reporting that its systems are back online.
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New Business Models: MAP
To date Minimum Advertised Pricing, or MAP, which prohibits retailers from advertising a price at less than the manufacturers' suggested retail price, has mostly been used for non-book items. Now Pennsylvania-based Schiffer Publishing is trying to change that with its LTD imprint.
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Calendar Club Adds Remainder Books
This holiday season 18-year-old Calendar Club is bringing something new to its mix of 1,220 kiosks and temporary in-line stores under the Go! Calendar, Go! Toys, and Go! Games brands, remainder books.
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Controversy Over Borders IP Sale—in Singapore
Popular Holdings Limited and Barjaya Books are fighting over who gets the Borders name in Singapore.
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BAM!’s Stores In Place
When the 2011 holiday selling season begins in earnest around Thanksgiving, Books-A-Million will have more than 250 stores open as it completes the rebranding and re-opening of stores it took over from Borders. BAM! will move into 41 former Borders locations by mid-November, an expansion that will put the country’s second largest bookstore chain in eight new states—Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, and Wisconsin—and give the retailer a presence in a total of 31 states. It is also closing 21 outlets.
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Digital Catalogues Take Over
Going from paper to electronic catalogues has become one of the biggest upheavals in the way independent bookstores buy, on a par with cutbacks in field sales reps. “I don’t think our choice is between paper and electronic catalogues,” says Carole Horne, general manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., who views digital catalogues as a given. “Frankly, I like electronic catalogues. They save me time, and they save paper.” More importantly, they save publishers on printing and mailing costs.
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BAM Announces Plan for 41 New Stores
Beginning October 28 and continuing through mid-November BAM! will open a total of 41 new stores.
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