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Children’s Books for Fall: W
WALKER & CO. Playful Little Penguins ($15.95) by Tony Mitton, illus. by Guy Parker-Rees, is a rhyming tale about energetic penguins. (3-6) Little Bitty Mousie ($16.95) by Jim Aylesworth, illus. by Michael Hague, offers a midnight ABC adventure. (3-6) Smile! ($11.95) by Kate Lennard, illus. by Dermot Flynn.
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Big Kids' Books For Fall
| July 1| How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague (Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99). 100,000 copies. | July 2 | Football Genius by Tim Green (HarperCollins, $16.99). 100,000 copies. The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme, Book Two: The Thief Queen's Daughter by Elizabeth Haydon (Tor/Starscape, $17.
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It's a Potter Potter World
At 12:01 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on Saturday, July 21, cartons containing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be ripped open by retailers around the world (everywhere but North America, which opens them five hours later) and fans will learn how the extraordinarily popular series by J.K. Rowling concludes.
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Lesbian Press Adds Straight Whodunits
Who would have thought that a small Michigan press that publishes only lesbian fiction could bring some of the most renowned contemporary mystery authors in Britain to the attention of American readers? But then, Bywater Books, founded three years ago by former women's bookstore owner Kelly Smith, with authors Marianne K.
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After the Drought
PGW publishers look forward to first postbankruptcy payment.
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Measuring Bookselling
The different ways in which books are being sold were highlighted in two separate reports issued in recent weeks.
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San Francisco, Shame onYou!
Out of all American cities, I thought you could hold on to an independent bookstore.
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Bloomsbury Offers New Online Book Preview
Bloomsbury Publishing has teamed with LibreDigital, a digital publishing services provider, to create Look Inside, allowing readers to search and preview Bloomsbury titles on the Web, in their original print form and look.
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Book Clubs Look to Turn Web from Foe to Friend
The Internet may have dealt a severe blow to the book club business, but the Web may provide the key to keeping book clubs a viable distribution channel.
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B&T Buys AMS's Book Club Wholesaling Assets
Following court approval of its purchase of AMS’s book club wholesaling assets, Baker & Taylor has created Baker & Taylor Marketing Services and, beginning today, has resumed shipping new titles to the warehouse clubs.
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Thinking Beyond the Bookstore: Hybrid Independents
Over the past five years, a handful of booksellers have begun transforming the traditional bookstore model by creating hybrid businesses without storefronts that are focused solely on events.
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March of the Small Presses
Bookended by Black History Month and National Poetry Month, March has never meant much for the book business.
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Comics Shops Sell Books, Too
In both comics specialty stores--known as the direct market in the comics industry--and traditional bookstores, sales of graphic novels have been zooming upward over the past few years.
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Staying Up For Hillary
How bookstores prepared for the release of Hillary Clinton's memoir, 'Living History.'
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PW Daily's Guide to Graphic Novels IV
This week's guide to manga, recently released and backlist graphic novel titles.
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PW Daily's Guide to Graphic Novels
This week's guide is for manga, recently released graphic novels and backlist graphic novel titles.
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PW Daily's Guide to Graphic Novels: Manga, Recent Releases, and Backlist
We're back with the latest version of our guide to graphic novels for booksellers. We received so much feedback about our initial listing of graphic novels (PW Daily, August 28) that we decided to tweak our criteria and format just a bit.
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PW Daily's Guide to Graphic Novels
With burgeoning interest in the genre of graphic novels, during the next few weeks PW Daily is printing a selected list of titles a bookstore needs to stock a basic graphic novel section.
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Diamond in the Rough? Periodical Comics Distributor Looks to Pick up LPC Slack
The post-LPC comics and graphic novel distribution landscape is beginning to come into focus. Diamond Comics, the largest distributor of periodical comic books to the specialty comics market, is launching Diamond Book Distributors, a new division to distribute comics, graphic novels, manga and anime as well as toys and other pop culture product to the book trade.
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The Art of Selling Graphic Novels
Although graphic novels have been gaining critical recognition, as well as sales, over a period of 15 years, many booksellers still have not made the plunge into starting a section in their stores, or if they have, it consists of half a shelf tucked into a back corner and unseen by most customers. This causes a lot of booksellers to claim that graphic novels don't sell.