Lagardere Publishing reported third quarter sales ending September 30 of 637 euros, down by 1.6 percent compared to last year in absolute terms. (You’ll notice our report likely diverges from others, since the official company release charts results for the nine months of the fiscal year and concludes they are still rising; we actually break […]
Archives for October 2008
Test Program for Universal Online Catalog
The innovators at Above the Treeline will begin testing an online interactive catalog of books from multiple publishers. The six-month pilot program features books from Chronicle, Harper, Wiley, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, and Tyndale House. Called Edelweiss, the new interface aspires to let retailers “manage their catalogs easily in a single […]
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Joey Paul has joined Faith Words as executive editor. Publisher Rolf Zettersen calls it “a significant milestone” for the line. “He brings key relationships, a strong history of bestsellers and great instincts to our program. It will be a privilege to work with him.” Most recently he was vp of editorial and acquisitions for the […]
Focus on Penny's Team at Costco
The “cover story” in the current issue of Costco’s member magazine dubs the warehouse clubs “the big little bookstore” and looks at how Pennie Clark Ianniciello and her three assistant buyers have built “one of the top five booksellers” in the country. Carrying only about 200 titles at any given time, they say “it’s not […]
Can Senator Use Campaign Funds to Commission Book?
That’s the basic question Republican Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond put to the Federal Election Commission recently, as his campaign treasurer wrote, “because the issues present in the book are so important and because we believe the book would be an effective gift to potential donors, we wish to utilize either campaign or leadership PAC funds […]
NBCC Lists Again
About a year ago the NBCC started what was going to be a monthly Best Recommended List, which shortly thereafter turned into a seasonal list of Good Reads and then went dormant after spring recommendations. Now they return with a revamped NBCC Reads for fall. The new plan is not so much recommendations about new […]