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Archives for September 2023
BAM Offers Same and Next-Day Delivery
Books-A-Million is partnering with Walmart’s GoLocal delivery platform to offer same and next-day delivery for online orders of products that are in-stock at a nearby store. Orders placed before 3PM will arrive the same day, and after 3PM will be delivered the next day. The service will roll out in the coming weeks, starting with the Midwest and Southeast markets. “Utilizing all of our stores nationwide for online delivery and fulfillment allows us to offer a fast, convenient and frictionless delivery option for our customers and is essential to our omnichannel transformation,” BAM vp of marketing Olivia McDaniel said in […]
Reese’s Pick
Reese Witherspoon chose Mother Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon as her book club pick for September.
BNED Benefits from Closing Underperforming Stores
After an eventful summer which included a delayed full-year SEC filing, renegotiated loans to narrowly avoid collapse, and two new board members to oversee “strategic options,” Barnes & Noble Education announced results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, ended July 29 (which is typically a soft quarter for the company). Sales for the quarter were $264.2 million, up from $254.7 million last year (remember: sales for the same quarter in fiscal 2019 were $338 million). Net loss was $(50.4) million, compared to $(52.7) million, and gross profit was $50.6 million, down from $56.0 million. In the retail segment, […]
NBF Literarian Award
The National Book Foundation will give its annual Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Paul Yamazaki, principal buyer at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco.
Forthcoming: THE TRUMP INDICTMENTS
On September 25, Mariner Books will publish the complete indictments against Donald Trump as THE TRUMP INDICTMENTS: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States, edited and with an introduction by MSNBC correspondent Ali Velshi. The book will include the cases brought in New York, Georgia, and federal courts that accuse the former president of mishandling classified documents and attempting to overturn the 2020 election, which are “purposely crafted as narratives to be read by the public,” according to a press release. Mariner publisher Peter Hubbard acquired the book from Byrd Leavell at United Talent Agency.