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Lightning Source Launches Espresso Book Machine Pilot
Lightning Source has launched an Espresso Book Machine pilot program, done in conjunction with On Demand Books, through which select publishers will be able to offer their customers the opportunity to print their titles on the Espresso machines.
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Borders Books By The Numbers
$184.7 million: Loss from continuing operations, 2008 $19.9 million: Loss from continuing operations, 2007 $554.0 million: Debt at year-end, 2007 $336.2 million: Debt at year-end, 2008 -10.8%: Comp-store decline of superstores, 2008 -8.2%: Comp-store decline of books, 2008 $166.5 million: Reduction in book inventory, 2008 8: Number of airport stores opened in 2008 12: Number of superstores open...
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Dog and Bear Hit the Road
They may be just three feet tall and made of plush, but that’s not keeping Dog and Bear, the eponymous stars of Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Dog and Bear and Dog and Bear: Two’s Company (Roaring Brook/Porter), from striking out across the U.S. on tour. The Dog and Bear Best Friends Tour got underway last week and will run through the summer.
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ABC to Explore Merger with ABA
A quarter century after children’s booksellers broke away from the American Booksellers Association and formed a separate group, the Association of Booksellers for Children, the two have begun discussions to consider reuniting. Among the possibilities that such a collaboration might take: for the ABC to become a division or department of ABA.
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Teens, Tweens, and Me: An Afternoon at the Biggest Teen Author Signing Ever!
The multicolored sign outside of Books of Wonder called the event I was about to walk into “The Biggest Teen Author Signing Ever!” As I stepped into the Manhattan children’s bookstore last Sunday afternoon, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The sign, however, wasn’t lying. What I walked into certainly appeared to be the biggest teen author signing ever. Period. Exclamation!
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The Biggest Teen Author Signing Ever: A Photo Gallery
Sara Antill braved epic crowds at New York City’s Books of Wonder on Sunday, March 22, for an author event that featured 40 YA writers. See her photos from the event below.
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Anderson Sues Magazine Publishers & Wholesalers
In yet another twist in the tangled fate of Anderson News—which as recently as January shared half of the country’s magazine distribution business with Source Interlink and is now facing chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy —the company fired back at magazine publishers and wholesalers in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.
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Kids Heart Authors Day a Success
This past February 14, 172 children’s book authors and illustrators drove as much as two hours each way to read and sign books as part of Kids Heart Authors Day, a literary Valentine to 43 independents booksellers in New England.
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Hope for the Holidays: A Bookseller Survey
Despite the difficult economic climate, children’s booksellers nationwide expressed cautious confidence in the upcoming holiday sales season in our pre-holiday survey, though they were less certain about the prospects for early 2009. And several felt that children’s books, as a category, might fare better than adult.
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School Librarians Connect Kids with Galleys
It’s a win-win situation: publishers get middle-grade and young adult galleys into the hands of middle-school librarians, who share them with students in hopes of fueling their interest in reading. The kids’ enthusiasm for a title then creates buzz about the book that can have a positive effect on sales. It’s a chain reaction that is beneficial to all concerned—and one that appears to be happening with increasing frequency.
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Books for Grownups: October 2008
From PW and AARP, here are 15 books to keep boomers warm as the leaves and the temperature falls, including novels about Led Zeppelin and time travel, two nonfiction books with "Shadow "in the title, and how-to books that will help you with migraines and your personal brand. Read on!
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GLIBA Booksellers Dispense Advice
About 50 general booksellers gathered at the GLIBA trade snow to hear Kristen McLean, executive director of the Association of Booksellers for Children, along with booksellers Cynthia Compton of 4 Kids Books in Indianapolis and Rose Joseph of Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., discuss the nuts and bolts of setting up a children’s section in a general-interest bookstore.
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Storyopolis: Balancing Art with Books
Storyopolis, Southern California’s premier children’s art gallery and bookshop, moved from Studio City to Sherman Oaks three weeks ago and has changed its name to The Gallery at Storyopolis.
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PW Talks With Jamie Kornegay
Mississippi is a foreign culture,” says Jamie Kornegay, owner of Turnrow Book Company, located deep in the Mississippi delta in Greenwood. He is, technically speaking, a foreigner himself, having been born in Memphis in 1975. He was then raised over the border in Batesville, Miss., a 30-minutes drive from Oxford, home to Faulkner and numerous other literary lights.
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Books for Grownups: August 2008
It's the last month of summer, which means it's time to plan this year's last trips to the beach--and to figure out what to read. This month, PW and AARP have come up with some great books: a few thrillers for the beach or the plane; with election season coming, there are books on politics, one of them by Nancy Pelosi; and of course, a handful of helpful how-tos. Get reading, quick, before the weather changes and you have to take your book inside.
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Kids' Stores Grow Up
The 1970s and '80s saw a burgeoning of children's specialty bookstores. Many started small. In fact, the first location for Booktenders Secret Garden in Doylestown, Pa., was so tiny that author/illustrator Stephen Kellogg dubbed it “the enchanted closet,” recalls owner Ellen Mager. She bought the store, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, after it had been open only...
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Books for Grownups: June 2008
This month, PW and AARP bring you a handful of hot summer reads, including hefty novels, notable nonfiction and helpful how-to's to keep you company at the beach or wherever you'll be relaxing. Enjoy, and keep cool!
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Books for Grownups: April 2008
PW and AARP have teamed up again to bring you a list of Spring books just for baby boomers. From Peter Carey's new novel to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the Kenney's to a guide to not looking old, there's lots here to read as you say goodbye to winter.
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McKenna Jordan & David Thompson
Talk about being married to your job: on September 6, when McKenna Jordan, 26, and David Thompson, 36, say “I do” at the Dryburgh Abbey in Scotland, they will cement a bond that already has them spending most days and nights together. Jordan and Thompson are manager and assistant manager, respectively, of mystery bookstore Murder by the Book in Houston, Tex.
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Books for Grandparents: March 2008
AARP and Publishers Weekly team up once again, scouring the latest titles and helping you find just the right book for your grandchild. From a cookbook for toddlers to a book about the real John Henry, there's something here for everyone.
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