At Abrams, Tara Lehmann has joined as senior publicist, working primarily with the Abrams ComicArts imprint and licensed/brand entertainment titles.
B&N National Book Club Pick
Barnes & Noble chose Jess Kidd’s The Night Ship as their October National Book Club selection.
Scholastic “On Plan” for First Quarter, with Bigger Seasonal Loss
Scholastic announced earnings for the first quarter of 2023, ended August 31, with sales of $263 million, up 1 percent from last year. The company said results were “on plan” for the quarter, which usually reports an operating loss, with a typical dip in the summer when kids are out of school and investments in […]
Obituaries: Hilary Mantel, Joan Fusco
Booker-prize winning novelist Hilary Mantel, 70, died of a stroke on Thursday at a hospital in Exeter, England. Her agent Bill Hamilton said to the New York Times, “She had so many great novels ahead of her” and noted that she’d been working on a new one. The author of the celebrated Thomas Cromwell trilogy, […]
France Imposes Minimum Shipping Fee for Book Orders
The French government has set a minimum fee of €3 for online book orders of less than €35, Reuters reports. France has submitted the proposal to the EU and the fee will take effect six months after it is approved. In December of last year the government passed a law requiring a minimum shipping rate […]
Bookselling: B&N in Bellvue, WA
Barnes & Noble will open a new store at the Crossroads Shopping Center in Bellvue, WA on September 28, while closing their store at 106 Ave NE downtown. The old store will be razed to make way for a “three-tower, mixed use redevelopment.”