The latest Barnes & Noble Recommends selection is a children’s book for the first time: Gary D. Schmidt’s middle-grade novel OKAY FOR NOW. Clarion says they have a 150,000-copy first printing and a ten-city author tour planned. A further twist in the ongoing REDGroup Retail bankruptcy saga comes from the 25 Angus & Robertson franchise stores, who have been unhappy with how administrators Ferrier Hodgson have been handling matters. So much so that the stores have exercised their right to terminate on the basis of A&R’s “continued breach of the franchise agreement”, according to The Bookshop Bowral owner Marie Fitzpatrick, acting […]
