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Drabyak Honored
In honor of NAIBA president and friend, the late Joe Drabyak, NAIBA has created the Joe Drabyak Handseller of the Year Award to recognize booksellers who put their passion for books into practice with marketing and promotions.
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Jockeying for Tomorrow’s Borders Hearing
Prior to tomorrow’s hearing at which Judge Martin Glenn will rule on Borders’s impending liquidation set to start on Friday, the chain is trying to lay to rest the nearly 90 objections that have been filed, including ones from Kobo.
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Thank You, Borders
The strong show of support and appreciation continues for Borders, including this letter from Sourcebooks.
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Borders Closer to Folding
With Sunday’s deadline passed and no bids to keep Borders open as a going concern, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal, it is growing increasingly likely that the troubled retailer will begin going out of business sales as early as Friday.
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Borders Auction Canceled, Going-Out-of-Business Sales to Start Friday
Borders confirmed that it will submit the proposal from a consortium of liquidators led by Hilco and Gordon Brothers to bankruptcy court on Thursday. If approved, as expected, going-out-of-business sales will begin under a phased roll out at stores and facilities starting Friday.
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Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore to Expand
After less than two years in business, Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is expanding by moving its buying, shipping and receiving, and bookkeeping offices next door.
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Painting a Different Picture
Once insulated from retail trends, in recent years art museum bookstores have been affected by the same ups and downs as other bricks-and-mortar stores—a softening of the overall retail market and competition from online discounters—and been forced to change accordingly. It's not just that silk-screened scarves with Monet reproductions or glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly now have pride of place
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A List of Remaining Borders Stores
With the fate of Borders Group to be decided early next week, below is a list, by store number of the current outlets, starting with the first store in Ann Arbor.
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Borders Modifies Proposal to Put Liquidators in Driver's Seat
The outlook for Borders underwent a dramatic reversal late yesterday as the chain, responding to objections filed by both landlords and publishers, modified its bidding proposal to remove the offer made by Najafi Companies' BB Brands as the stalking horse bidder and replaced it with the bid by the liquidators.
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Judge Approves New Borders Procedures with Liquidators in the Lead
Despite BB Brands dropping out as the stalking horse bidder for Borders as a going concern and a consortium of liquidators led by Hilco assuming that role, the show, or in this case the sale, must go on.
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Bookstore Sales Up in May
Bookstore sales rose 1.5% in May, to $1.05 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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ABA Responds to Amazon's E-Fairness Referendum
"California has made clear that it's not the role of government to pick favorites among retail businesses. The time has come for Amazon.com to collect and remit the required sales tax -- just like every other California retailer," said ABA CEO Oren Teicher.
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First Day Heavyweights: Dugard Moves 175k; Martin's 'Dragons' Tops 298k
On Tuesday, two books broke records for opening-day book sales: Jaycee Dugard's memoir A Stolen Life sold a total of 175,000 copies, and George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons achieved the highest single- and first-day sales of any new fiction title published this year in the U.S. and Canada with 298,000 copies in print, digital, and audio formats.
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Creditors Committee Files Objections to Borders Proposal
The creditors committee has filed an objection asking the bankruptcy judge to deny Borders bid procedures motion as well as the breakup fee for BBB.
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Borders Defends Sales Timeline
As landlords of more than a hundred Borders locations continued to pile on their objections to the compressed time frame of the retailer’s proposed sales process, Borders responded late yesterday afternoon saying the schedule is key to getting the best possible outcome.
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Landlords Object to Borders's Sale Procedures
In separate filings, landlords for about 50 Borders locations raised objections to the compressed time frame for the Borders auction, scheduled to take place on July 19.
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Bookstores as Classrooms
As booksellers look for new services to attract customers, many are increasingly turning to language and writing classes, and are even teaching mah-jongg and tarot. "You name it, we'll do it if it has any relationship to being able to read," says Elaine Petrocelli, co-owner of Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif., which has been offering classes for the past 18 years.
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Lock, Stock, and Publisher
Booksellers have the industry connections to publish their books just about anywhere, but for some bookstore owners, self-publishing is preferable to going the traditional route.
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Skyhorse Inks UK Distribution Deal
Five-year-old Skyhorse Publishing will begin selling its print books and e-books in the U.K. and Europe starting September 1 through a distribution arrangement with independent publisher Constable & Robinson.
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