Our seventh Buzz Books Editors Panel, via zoom, is on Wednesday, May 17, at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with Publishers Lunch founder Michael Cader hosting. You can register here. And note that the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get […]
WH Smith Celebrates Only Small Declines at Their Bookstores
With WH Smith’s High Street bookstores in a long, steady decline, the parent company’s earnings report for the first six months shows only light falloff from last year’s comps. Sales of £266 million were down just £4 million from the same period a year ago, with trading profit of £24 million down £2 million. The […]
Harper to Use Newly-Designed Font for Some Non-English Works
Harper Collins will deploy a newly-commissioned font, Harper Arc, that “was designed to improve readability” while saving space: It “will reduce the amount of paper used per title by up to 20 percent.” Starting in July, they will use the font on select non-English titles published by Harper divisions in Europe and South America. The […]
Listening for Growth at LBF
The second day of a book fair always feels a little more familiar and easy to navigate. You think you know how to navigate the construction to avoid the most active cranes and trucks, and it turns out you can use most any entrance and now no one cares. You figure out how to avoid […]
Tower Cranes Loom Over Traditional London Book Fair
The tell comes as soon as you approach the venue: You may have heard that the Olympia, the venue for the London Book Fair, has some construction and expansion underway that could impact the show, even though none of this is made plain on their websites. But this is not an exhibition with a little […]
HarperCollins Tests OverDrive’s Bulk Loan Bundles for “High-Demand Titles”
In these charged times, Overdrive has unfortunately timed a press release to the London Book Fair that should matter most to the US library market, giving some context to the contentiousness over publishers’ business relationships with library ebook lending. One strain of that dialog asserts that there is only one basis on which publishers license […]