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B&N Adds Mobile Sales Partner
Barnes & Noble has teamed with the mobile commerce provider Digby to sell books, music and movies to BlackBerry users.
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B&N's and Borders's New Sites
This month, BN.com received a major makeover and Borders released a test version of its new site (http://beta.bordersstores.com/online/store/Home). Here's a comparison of the sites' new offerings.
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Can Small Press Distributors Survive?
The recent liquidation of Sarasota, Fla.—based BookWorld Companies, coupled with National Book Network's announcement just two months ago that it will phase out small-press specialty sister company, Biblio, highlights the fragile economics that underpin the distribution of self-publishers and presses that do just a handful of books.
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RH Films Debuts
What are book people doing in the movie business?” This was the question Random House Films president Peter Gethers said he kept hearing after his new division was announced in 2005. Speaking to a crowd at the recent New York gala screening of RH Films' first feature, Reservation Road, Gethers was in a decidedly celebratory mood; the film's debut had proven, as the RH team noted, that th...
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Macmillan Rises from the Dustbin
Last week's announcement that Holtzbrinck's U.S. businesses have been rebranded Macmillan restored a name that had once been among the most prominent in American publishing, including a long run as an independent, publicly traded company. The demise of Macmillan—and its name—began in 1988 when the company became the target of corporate raider Robert Maxwell.
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Books-A-Million Accelerates Store Openings, Will Enter Pennsylvania, Nebraska
Books-A-Million will open 15 to 20 new stores next year and enter Nebraska and Pennsylvania for the first time, a move that will give the Alabama-based chain bookstores in 22 states.
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Lessing´s Nobel Win Thrills Publisher
As news spread through the Frankfurt Book Fair Thursday afternoon that HarperCollins author Doris Lessing had just won the Nobel Prize for literature, her publisher´s booth filled up with journalists brandishing cameras and notebooks and colleagues offering hugs and congratulations. For just a few minutes, the search for the next big thing became secondary to celebrating the the 87-year-old British writer´s decades of achievement.
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National Lampoon, Six Others Join PGW
National Lampoon Press and two travel publishers are moving their distribution to PGW.
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African American Community Rallies Around Eso Wan
A week after the news circulated that Eso Won bookstore, Los Angeles’ premier bookseller specializing in African American authors, was facing bankruptcy and contemplating closure at the end of the year, the community churches (led by the powerful First African Methodist Episcopal) took action by telling their congregations to buy books at the store or risk losing a community treasure.
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Holtzbrinck’s U.S. Arm Now Macmillan
Holtzbrinck has changed the name of its U.S. publishing operation to Macmillan, a move that puts the German company's English and Spanish global publishing businesses under the same brand.
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Berger to Succeed Holton at Scholastic
Lisa Holton, who has served as president of Scholastic's trade and book fair groups since May 2005, is leaving the company to form a new media venture. Ellie Berger has been named president of the trade group.
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Borders Beta Redesign Up for Customer Feedback
After more than a month of quiet beta tests—and just days after B&N unveiled a redesign of its site—Borders is ready to give its new e-commerce site a test run for consumers.
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Commercial Frontlist, His Own Backlist
What's a midlist author to do when his publisher puts his backlist out of print? In the case of mystery writer Archer Mayor, you take matters into your own hands, literally. While Chat, his 18th book in the Joe Gunther series, is set to come out on schedule from Grand Central Publishing later this month, Mayor will be reissuing the first 12 books in the series as trade paperbacks under his own ...
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Consortium Making Progress, But More Needed
Last week’s announcement that Seven Stories Press, one of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution’s largest and most important clients, had agreed to a long-term extension suggested that the worst of the transition issues involving the distributor’s integration into the Perseus Books Group—including the move of warehousing and some back-office operations to Jackson, Tenn.
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People: Baron to Go Exclusive for Knopf; Nichols to Collins; Barber to Grove/Atlantic
Carole Baron has formalized her relationship with Knopf, agreeing to acquire books for the Random House division exclusively. Also on the staffing front, Bruce Nichols has been named v-p and publisher of HarperCollins' Collins division.
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BookWorld Closes, AtlasBooks Steps Up
Small press distributor BookWorld closed its doors Friday, with little warning to its clients. AtlasBooks, which had been in discussions about buying the company, has taken possession of most of the books and hopes to take on many of BookWorld's clients.
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Borders Shareholders Want Board Seat
Several large shareholders have asked Borders to name Glenn Tongue to the retailer's board, asserting that "significant shareholders" deserve some board representation.
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Hyperion to Move Downtown
Early next year Hyperion will move from its offices 66th Street in New York City back to its previous location on Fifth Avenue. The shift will follow the move of Disney Publishing Worldwide to from NYC to White Plains, N.Y.
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Galassi Takes Debut for FSG
Farrar, Straus & Giroux head Jonathan Galassi has acquired U.S. rights to a debut novel that could be one of the bigger books at Frankfurt next week. The author is 31-year-old C.E. Morgan, and the book's working title is All the Living. After a submission September 20 to a selected group of editors, last Monday morning Trident's Ellen Levine had several offers on the table, eventually accep...
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Southie Memoir Comes Home
In recent years, no neighborhood in Boston has generated as much book interest as Southie—both tell-alls of street soldiers for crime boss/FBI informant Whitey Bulger, charged with killing 19 people, and analyses of him and his brother Billy, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate and the University of Massachusetts system.
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