A new 20,000-square foot Joseph-Beth store has opened in a former Borders location just outside of Cincinnati, OH, with its grand opening celebration slated for November 19. General manager Craig Sherman told Cincinnati.com the new store will have a “friendlier atmosphere” than its predecessor. “If customers are looking for an engaging, memorable experience, they’re going to find it when they walk in here,” he said. “This is a community bookstore.” The Tattered Cover will use its newly installed Espresso Book Machine for self-publishing services within the Denver, CO community. “We are hoping to use the machine to provide better customer […]
Archives for November 2011
People, Etc.
Jeff Umbro has joined Goldberg McDuffie Communications as digital marketing manager, integrating digital marketing into their overall communications strategies. He began his career with Appsolute Media, focused on social media marketing, content strategy and seo. Toronto’s Transatlantic Literary Agency has added three agents. Meghan Macdonald will work part-time, growing a list of adult fiction and non-fiction clients. She worked for David Grossman before joining TLA. Patricia Ocampo will represent children’s authors, after working in editorial at Harper Children’s and in sales and marketing at Hachette Book Group Canada. Amy Tompkins will share representation of international rights sales for Orca Book […]
Independents Triumph At National Book Awards
The National Book Awards turned into a celebration of independence of sorts on Wednesday night, with independent publishers issuing three of the four medal winners, and a special award for service to the American literary community going to independent bookseller and former ABA president Mitchell Kaplan from Miami’s Books & Books. In a similar but different vein, the AP called the evening’s festivities “a gilded tribute to the 99 percent. Stories of resilience in the face of poverty, displacement and disappearance were awarded Wednesday night as hundreds of writers, editors, publishers and other industry officials gathered under the 70-foot ceilings of […]
Barnes & Noble Offers Exclusive Patterson Holiday Novella Promotion In Stores; Can Bundle Print and eBooks Through Store Cash Registers
Barnes & Noble has secured a significant in-store “exclusive” for the holidays: a novella from James Patterson, MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS. The bookseller will give a free copy–either printed, or digital–to customers who buy Patterson’s just-released KILL ALEX CROSS in hardcover and one other Patterson title in any format from a Barnes & Noble Store. Perhaps as important as the exclusive offer, designed to help drive store traffic, is that Barnes & Noble says they have developed a “cashiering system [that] will allow retail customers to seamlessly combine a Nook Book purchase with the purchase of the new hardcover title […]
Later Today
At 12:30 the National Book Foundation will webcast their teen press conference from Scholastic, where NY middle school and high school students will interview the five official candidates for the award for Young People’s Literature. And tonight at 8, the organization will webcast the National Book Award ceremonies live from their home page. Separately, the UAW rally in front of HarperCollins’ midtown office building is scheduled for 12:30 today. The union says in a press release that “a number of HarperCollins works will speak,” and they “will be joined by several elected officials” among others. Harper production editor Dale Rohrbaugh […]
Book Country Launches Self-Publishing Platform
Penguin’s online genre community Book Country will launch an array of tools for authors to self-publish their work beginning on Wednesday, debuting in tandem with a redesign of their website. Book Country is offering three publishing packages to authors who wish to self-publish within the genres of romance, mystery/thriller, and science fiction & fantasy: a digital book with user-formatting based on a Microsoft Word file for $99, a package that adds POD printed books for $299, and a “professional” package for which Book Country creates “polished print and ePub files” from among “six different elegant interior styles,” for $549. (Book Country […]