Barnes & Noble reported fourth quarter and full-year results Thursday morning, and once more the trendline for the company is decidedly downward. Sales for the quarter were $786 million, a decline of 4.3 percent from the prior year, while comparable store sales dropped 4.1 percent. Consolidated EBITDA was $6.7 million in the fourth quarter, as […]
Briefs: Carla Hayden to Interview Michelle Obama at ALA; Award Winners; and Apple Books Changes
Appearances When Michelle Obama addresses the opening general session of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference on June 22, she will be joined on stage by Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden, who “will moderate a conversation.” Awards The Jewish Book Council’s $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has gone to Ilana Kurshan’s memoir If […]
Accountant Charged With Embezzling $3.4 Million From Donadio & Olson
A recently unsealed federal criminal complaint revealed that longtime Donadio & Olson accountant Darin Webb was charged earlier this month with embezzling $3.4 million from the literary agency between January 2011 and March 2018. According to the 5-page complaint, Webb, who was employed by Donadio & Olson as their bookkeeper since 2001, “used his position […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction
Our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler is full of excerpts from great forthcoming nonfiction by novelist and law professor Stephen Carter, Stephanie Land’s memoir Maid, and more. Also watch out for Michelle Obama’s memoir, essays by Glory Edim and Wesley Yang, plus books by Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Traister, Susan Orleans, and others. Did you download your copy […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Commercial Fiction
Our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler is full of excerpts from great forthcoming commercial fiction by Diane Chamberlain, Sarah Pinborough, Taylor Stevens, and Natasha Solomons. As usual, our free ebook starts with a broad view of the forthcoming publishing season that highlights hundreds of new books of note on the way. Did you download your copy yet? […]
Harper Lee Estate, Scott Rudin Settle Mockingbird Lawsuit
A Broadway production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is expected to go forward after Lee’s estate and the play’s producer, Scott Rudin, settled a pair of lawsuits Thursday. The NYT reports that both sides “issued a four sentence statement saying that they had ‘amicably settled’ the litigation, but offering no specifics,” with both […]