One prominent event at Book Expo on Friday was unlisted appearance by Hillary Clinton in advance of the June 10 release of HARD CHOICES. Hosted by Simon & Schuster, she addressed a group of about 120 booksellers. The publisher says that Clinton “spoke briefly about her experience writing the book, and some of the issues […]
Archives for May 2014
Books-a-Million Celebrates A Flat First Quarter
Sales eked up $200,000 at Books-A-Million in their fiscal first quarter, ending May 3, reaching $103.8 million for the period. Same-store sales were down 2.5 percent, however, and the net loss of $5.6 million was significantly higher. (A year ago their loss was mitigated by a $2 million tax benefit.) Ceo Terrance Finley was upbeat […]
Books-a-Million Adds HBG Featured Shop; BN Features A Few Titles; Wal-Mart Books HBG; Gladwell Speaks
Books-a-Million announced on Friday the creation of a dedicated online shop featuring Hachette Book Group titles at www.booksamillion.com/hbg. The top of the HBG home page says in headline type, “Don’t miss out on your next favorite book, pre-order today!” And one of the home page carousels is labelled, “Pre-Order the HBG Books You Want from the […]
Reed Aims for Two-Day BookCon In 2015 (and Four-Day BEA)
With strong ticket sales heading into the inaugural BookCon on Saturday as we reported Friday morning, Reed Exhibitions is engaged in a process to expand the consumer show to two days in 2015 — and would stretch the BEA exhibition floor to four days along with that if it goes forward. Currently BEA is scheduled […]
Upcoming: The Book Con, and the Copyright Com
As of Friday morning, Lance Fensterman at Reed Exhibitions told us they have sold approximately 9,000 tickets to consumers for Saturday’s inaugural Book Con, with more sales expected on site tomorrow. “There is no science to estimating walk up,” Fensterman said in answer to our query, “but we are prepared to continue selling a couple thousand tickets […]
At BEA: Isaacson On Collaboration; Patterson On Amazon/Hachette, Again; and More
Walter Isaacson discussed his forthcoming book THE INNOVATORS with Slate publisher Jacob Weisberg Friday morning at BEA. The book, which traces the lineage of technological innovation from Ada Lovelace (“I didn’t know much about her until my daughter introduced me”), Charles Babbage and Alan Turing to the founders of Intel to Twitter’s Ev Williams, was […]