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HC Intros Fast-Track Sign Up for Indies
HarperCollins has introduced a new fast-track program for all bricks-and-mortar independent bookstores that have been using Baker & Taylor to order the company’s titles.
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Beyond Drag Queen Story Hour: LGBTQ Books 2019
Children’s booksellers practice the subtle art of reaching LGBTQ readers.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 27, 2019
The #1 book in the country is ‘Howard Stern Comes Again, by the eponymous shock jock. Plus NSFW self-help guru Mark Manson returns with ‘Everything Is F*cked,’ and Dean Koontz closes out his Jane Hawk thriller series with ‘The Night Window.
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Nonfiction Boosts Unit Sales 2.6% in Mid-May
Gains in nonfiction in the week ended May 18, 2019, helped lift unit sales of print books 2.6% over the comparable week in 2018 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Candlewick Offers Indies Special Terms
Children's publisher Candlewick Press is the latest publisher to cook up special offers for independent bookstores transitioning away from Baker & Taylor's shuttering retail wholesale distribution.
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Clock Is Ticking on B&T Retail Shutdown
Industry members are starting to come to grips with the pending shut down of Baker & Taylor’s retail wholesale business, which takes full effect on July 15
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Talkshoplive Partners with ReaderLink to Offer Books
Looking to add books to its interactive selling platform, Talkshoplive, a streaming video shopping network offering social media–driven retail, is partnering with ReaderLink Distribution Services to offer book fulfillment to Talkshoplive clients.
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HMH Books & Media Sets Indie Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media has started Fast Track, a program aimed at helping independent booksellers set up direct order accounts.
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Scholastic Offers Indie Bookstores Special Terms
Scholastic is the latest publisher offering special terms for independent booksellers who want to transition to direct ordering in the wake of the news that Baker & Taylor's is exiting the retail wholesale business.
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Gentrification Threatens Black-Owned D.C. Bookstore
Sankofa Video and Books has been a fixture in Washington, D.C., for over two decades, but a $30,000 property tax assessment could force the black-owned bookstore to close.
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Can NYC's Shakespeare & Co. Create a National Indie Chain?
With a bookstore about to open in New York City's Greenwich Village and a fifth store slated to open next year at the upscale Brookfield Place mall, also in New York City, and another three or four in the works for 2020, Shakespeare & Co. is looking to create a "constellation" of bookstores with cafes and book machines.
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D.C.'s Loyalty Bookstore Looks to Expand
Loyalty Books in Washington D.C. is looking to add a second location, this time in Silver Spring, Md.; the organization has also brought on publishing industry veteran Gene Taft as a partner and marketing specialist.
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Print Unit Sales Increased 3% in Early May
Unit sales of print books rose 3% for the week ended May 11, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New Owner and Move for Curious George Store
The World's Only Curious George store has been sold to Astra Titus, a consultant working with the store on a partnership with Reach Out and Read.
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S&S Launches Indie Quick Start
Simon & Schuster has become the latest publisher to create a new ordering program for independent booksellers following the decision by Baker & Taylor to exit the retail wholesale business.
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James Patterson's Holiday Bonuses for Booksellers Are Back
For the sixth year running, author James Patterson has renewed his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program, pledging $250,000 to be distributed in denominations of $500 to 500 independent booksellers and bookstores.
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Hachette, IPG Launch Direct Sales Promos for Indies
Further to the news that Baker & Taylor is closing its retail wholesale business, both Hachette Book Group and Independent Publishers Group are offering independent booksellers special programs to transition them to direct sales.
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Unit Sales Had Small Gain in Early May, Led by Nonfiction
Unit sales of print books inched up by just under 1% in the week ended May 3, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 13, 2019
Class is back in session for Stuart Gibbs’s Spy School series as the seventh installment, ‘British Invasion,’ debuts at #3 in children’s frontlist fiction. Plus the team behind ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ score with ‘High Five,’ and thriller-writing collaborators Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley put their own spin on the question of ‘Collusion.’
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PRH Offers Direct Sales to Orphaned Bookstores
In response to Baker & Taylor closing its retail wholesale business, Penguin Random House has launched the "Indies Express Program" to transition B&T indie bookstore accounts to direct sales.
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