Publisher News

19 Nov

Wholesaler Holiday Hours

With the holiday season upon us, most wholesalers will be extending their hours. Here's a rundown of the holiday hours as provided by major wholesalers.

Baker & Taylor

From December 12 through December 20, Baker & Taylor's phone ordering hours for book product will be:

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04 Nov

Great Gifts & Other Non-Book Products ... Just Don't Call Them Sidelines

As price wars dip into already slim profits, offering an array of gifts and other non-book products with impulse purchase appeal can make a significant difference in a bookstore's bottom line this holiday season. Here's a look at some popular items selling well at three indies whose owners take serious advantage of the excellent margins offered by non-book products. Just don't call them sidelines, Steve Bercu, owner of BookPeople in Austin, Texas, cautioned. "I will point out that BookPeople does not sell any sidelines.

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29 Oct

New Distribution Arrangements & Changing Terms


Ingram Publisher Services Adds Three New Clients

Ingram Publisher Services Inc., the distribution company of Ingram Content Group Inc., has added three new publisher clients to its roster of publisher partners: Triple Crown Publications (TCP), a publisher of urban and hip-hop literature; Ooligan Press, a teaching press of Portland State University; and Overdue Media, the publisher of the library comic Unshelved.


Consortium Announces New Distribution Clients

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17 Sep

BTW News Briefs


Trade Show Season Starts

The fall trade show season kicked off last weekend in Portland, Oregon, where members of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association gathered for three days featuring educational programming, special author events, and exhibits.

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16 Sep

The Amanda Project Makes the Invisible Interactive

Fourth Story Media mixes traditional children's book publishing with online and digital media in The Amanda Project, a new interactive book series and website, developed in collaboration with HarperTeen.

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30 Jul

Bringing Authors to Bookstores Via Skype

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30 Jul

Talking POD With Lightning Source's David Taylor

One could, if one wished, explain away David Taylor's enthusiasm for print-on-demand technology simply by noting that it's part of his job; he is, after all, president of Ingram's Lightning Source, a global provider of on-demand and distribution solutions for the publishing industry.

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11 Jun

Edelweiss eCatalogs' Many Features on Display

Edelweiss, the interactive, online catalog platform from Above the Treeline, drew booksellers and other book industry professionals eager for a preview to Friday and Saturday sessions at BookExpo America and to the company's booth on the trade show floor.

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13 May

Perseus to Create BOOK on BEA Trade Show Floor: First Sentences Wanted

During a 48-hour span at BookExpo America, Perseus Books Group will publish BOOK: The Sequel, a collection of first sentences submitted by the public for yet-to-be-written sequels to any book ever published. The rapid-fire, multi-formatted creation of BOOK will demonstrate, right on the trade show floor, that publishing is agile and tech-current.

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13 May

eCatalogs Are Coming: Learn More at BEA

Interactive, online catalogs are coming this fall, and booksellers and others will have an opportunity to see how they'll work during BookExpo America. Demonstrations of Edelweiss will be presented by Above the Treeline at Booth #4130 on the trade show floor, and on Friday and Saturday mornings from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in Room 1E02 on the lower concourse (just down the hall from the ABA Lounge) at the Javits Convention Center.

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04 Mar

S&S Children's Publishing Helps Booksellers Celebrate Earth Day

In advance of Earth Day 2009 (April 22), Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing provided a "green" box in the Spring Children's White Box mailing, which shipped late last month to bookstores active in the IndieBound movement. The eco-friendly "recycled and recyclable promotion-in-a-box" serves to emphasize the green mission of S&S's line of Little Green Books.

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15 Jan

Efforts to Clarify Children's Product Safety Law Continue

On Thursday, January 15, in an effort to help clarify how the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) affects booksellers, the American Booksellers Association sent an e-mail to more than 20 children's publishers to ascertain what they will be doing to comply with CPSIA. As publisher responses are received, ABA will share the information with members via Bookselling This Week.

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15 Jan

38 Authors to Autograph at Wi4 Reception

The first full day of educational programming at ABA's Fourth Annual Winter Institute (Wi4), sponsored by Ingram Book Company/Ingram Publisher Services, will culminate in a celebratory reception featuring 38 authors, including both well-known indie favorites and exciting new voices.

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08 Jan

New Children's Product Safety Law Creates Confusion and Concern

A new consumer product safety law limiting the content of lead in children's products, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which will go into effect on February 10, has become a source of major concern for booksellers, publishers, and toy manufacturers, as well as for a number of other businesses that manufacture or sell children's products.

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