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Barnes & Noble Expands Offerings for Teachers, Parents and Librarians
Barnes & Noble is gearing up for the new school year with a few new initiatives, including new sections of its web site. B&N@School presents teachers, librarians and parents with a selection of educational toys and games. Jaime Carey, chief merchandising officer at B&N, said B&N@School complements the retailer’s recently expanded Educational Toys & Games department.
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Bookstore Sales Rise in June, But Down for Year
Bookstore sales rose in June, increasing 3.4% compared to June 2008, to $1.10 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Despite the June gain, bookstore sales for the first six months of 2009 were down 2.7%
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Powell's Closing South Loop Location
Powell’s, which has been a mainstay of the Chicago bookselling scene since 1970, is closing one of its three locations next month. The 8,000-square foot combination bookstore/warehouse, which has operated in the South Loop neighborhood for almost 30 years, will close its doors Sept. 1.
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Maple Street Children’s Book Shop Closes After 34 Years
After 34 years in business, New Orleans’s Maple Street Children’s Book Shop is closing. Owner Cindy Dike made the decision after "running out of cash and credit." The factors that contributed to the store’s demise form a kind of perfect storm. Hurricane Katrina forced many of the middle-class families out of New Orleans. "Customers with young children moved on to places where they felt more secure," Dike said, "and that population hasn’t bounced back."
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Books Inc. to Open Twelfth Store
Books Inc. announced Wednesday that it will open a new location in Berkeley by mid-October, bringing to 12 the number of stores in the regional chain.
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ABA Looks at Discontinuing Gift Card Program
With people's shopping habits changing, the ABA is considering ending its gift card program.
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Indigo Has Small First Quarter Rise
Revenue rose 1.6% at Indigo Books & Music in its first quarter, led by a 1.4% increase in same store sales at its superstores.
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Green Apple Books Scores with Kindle Satire
A series of Book vs. Kindle videos has drawn lots of interest for San Francisco's Green Apple Books.
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Crocodile Pie, Other Chicagoland Closings
The children's bookstore Crocodile Pie is closing later this summer along with Prairie Avenue Architecture Bookstore.
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The Book vs The Billionaire
The Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance is hoping a book can raise funds and awareness to preserve dunes along Lake Michigan from development.
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'Ranger’s Apprentice' Hits the Road
Having toured the U.S. last year, Australian author John Flanagan isn’t coming stateside for the release of The Siege of Macindaw (Philomel, Sept.), the sixth book in his Ranger’s Apprentice series. Soon readers in 27 U.S. cities will be able to see a theatrical performance entitled “Escape to Araluen,” based on the first Ranger’s Apprentice book, The Ruins of Gorlan, thanks to a national bus tour Penguin has put together.
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Crocodile Pie Really to Shut Down This Time
A year almost to the day after dentist Kim Zizic bought Crocodile Pie, a children’s bookstore in Libertyville, Ill., hoping to save it from closing, she’s giving up. Crocodie Pie is slated to close its doors August 14. Crocodile Pie was founded in 1989 by Kim White, who sold it to Zizic on August 1, 2008. The store stocks about 20,000 titles for children, from birth through teen, in a 400-square-foot space.
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LibreDigital Raises $15 Million in New Funding
LibreDigital has raised $15 million in new capital it will use to fund expansion of its digital platform.
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Online U.K. Bookseller Opens Digital Storefront in the U.S.
The U.K.online bookseller, BookDepository.co.uk, today opened a U.S. storefront at bookstoredepository.com.
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Barnes & Noble Stores to Offer Free AT&T Wi-Fi
Barnes & Noble is partnering with AT&T to provide free in-store Wi-Fi access to customers at all outlets nationwide. CEO Steve Riggio said providing free Wi-Fi to customers is helping the retailer “[extend] the sense of community that has always been in our stores.”
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Cracks in Amazon's E-book Empire
With the launch of a new competitor and a public relations disaster, Amazon has endured one of the most difficult seven days in the e-books business since it launched its first Kindle in 2007. Amazon's removal on July 17 of 1984 and Animal Farm from customers who had downloaded the titles to their Kindle continued to be a hot topic in the book industry and blogosphere last week.
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University of Michigan Expands Print on Demand Effort with Amazon's BookSurge
The University of Michigan Library announced this week that it will make thousands of public domain books —including rare and one-of-a-kind titles—available for sale in print-on-demand edition under a new agreement with Amazon’s BookSurge. The program will make 400,000 titles in more than 200 languages available, and will include books digitized by UM and books digitized through the university’s partnership with Google.
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IndieBound Updates iPhone App
IndieBound has updated its iPhone app, unveiling the IndieBound for iPhone app version 1.5 yesterday. The new version is integrated with users’ book lists on IndieBound.org, so users can bring lists to the bookstore with them on their iPhone.
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Over 200 Publishers, Distributors Sign On to NAIPR's Frontlist Plus Universal
More than 200 publishers and distributors have listed their books in the Frontlist Plus Universal database, the online titl-management tool developed by the National Association of Independent Publishers Reps.
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ALA in Chicago: The Joint Was Jumping
With a record-breaking attendance of nearly 29,000, scores of competing parties and breakfasts, plenty of big-name author signings, and an array of programs, it was easy for librarians and publishers at the ALA Annual Conference to forget—if only for a few delicious moments—that yes, we are in the midst of a serious recession. True, many of the librarians paid their own way, there was more pizza than prosciutto at the receptions, and the number of exhibitors was off by more than 1,000.
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