Bookselling Daybook
-- 2/28/00
Book Stall Grows
Roberta Rubin, owner of the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka, Ill., a suburb north of Chicago, has expanded her store yet again -- and added a connecting entrance to a new Caribou Coffee shop next door.
The additional 600-sq.-ft. space allows the store to seat up to 100 people for readings in the new Book Stall Reading Room and makes it easier for Book Stall to stay open later. On weekdays the store now closes at 9 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. The grand opening celebration for what Rubin calls "our work in progress" ran from February 5“13 and included daily author readings.
Rubin bought Book Stall in 1982 and the Winnetka Chestnut Court outlet in 1986, at which point she merged the two. Since then, she has slowly expanded the store: it now has 5500 square feet, and the new addition is almost as large as Rubin's first store
Sydney Borders to Open Borders's second store in Australia will open in the north of Sydney, in the Macquarie Centre, probably by the end of April, according to the Weekly Book Newsletter. Jenny Kaplan, Borders's manager of international marketing, told PW that the store will be about 27,000 square feet, comparable with the Borders in Melbourne, which opened in 1998. The Sydney store will carry 135,000 book titles, with some selected for the local market, as well as 50,000 music titles, 4,500 videos and 2,600 periodicals.
Kate Sprouls, Borders's director of operations for the Pacific Rim, told the Newsletter that the location offered the right amount of space for Borders as well as the demographics the store likes: readers between the ages of 25 and 52, many of whom are professionals, students or academics. Sprouls said that the company has "no specific plans" for further expansion in Oz. Still, Borders remains "very positive about Australia," she said.
Another BAM in Alabama
Books-A-Million, whose headquarters is in Birmingham, Ala., is opening a 12,000-sq.-ft. store in the Colonial Promenade Madison, in Madison, Ala., near Huntsville, this fall. The 110,000-sq.-ft. shopping center is under construction and will include a Publix Supermarket.
Title Source Adds Data
Title Source II, the Baker & Taylor Internet bibliographic database, has added inventory information from five more wholesalers, so that it now contains inventory information from most major wholesalers -- except Ingram. Title Source includes inventory information from competing wholesalers to make the database more useful to booksellers who order through it.
The newly added wholesalers are Bookpeople, Oakland, Calif.; the Booksource, St. Louis, Mo., with smaller warehouses in Tampa, Fla., Austin, Tex., and Ph nix, Ariz.; the distributors, South Bend, Ind.; Partners Book Distributing, Holt, Mich.; and Partners/West, Renton, Wash. Title Source already includes inventory information from K n Book Distributors, K n-Pacific, Login Brothers, the Bookmen -- and, of course, Baker & Taylor.
Title Source continues to expand its records. Updated daily, it now offers more than 110,000 tables of content, 361,000 jacket images and 600,000 annotation extracts, book excerpts as well as full reviews and citations from major journals.
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