The Little Group, parent of UK wholesaling business Gardners, is opening a warehouse in Hialeah, FL. They offer US bookstores “access to over 200,000 British books with efficient domestic shipping options,” for delivery within three to five days. Little Group’s All Media Supply already provides import CD, vinyl, DVD & Blu-ray and other products from […]
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Bookselling: Books Are Magic to Open Second Location
Five years after launching their first store, Books Are Magic owners Emma Straub and Michael Fusco-Straub will open a second location in Brooklyn, Time Out New York reports. The second store will be at 122 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights and is expected to open in late October.
ABA Discusses Free Speech, E-Commerce Updates at Annual Meeting
The American Booksellers Association Annual Meeting and Town Hall was presented via Zoom yesterday, with board members and ceo Allison Hill sharing updates on the organization and fielding questions. In her president’s letter, Word bookstores owner Christine Onorati said, “Running our own businesses seems to get harder every single day,” she said. “And yet we […]
Bookselling: Harvard Book Store To Open Location In The Prudential Center
As first suggested by reports a year ago, Harvard Book Store will open a new location in Boston’s Prudential Center in the spring of 2023. They are taking over 29,000 square feet of space that housed a Barnes & Noble location for 20 years — up until last month — and “will contain a wide […]
Barnes & Noble Education Splits Top Job In Two, Renews Standstill with Investor
Ahead of reporting their fiscal fourth quarter later this week, Barnes & Noble Education announced that it has separated the roles of board chair and ceo, effective immediately. Lead independent director Vice Admiral John R. Ryan now serves as board chair, with Mike Huseby remaining as ceo. Additionally, Outerbridge Capital Investment’s chief investment officer Rory […]
Booktopia’s Value Has Plunged
It took Australia’s leading online bookseller Booktopia years to pull off a public offering of shares in late 2020 — and in retrospect, it probably never should have done so. Shares have been sinking since last summer, accelerated by their surprise warning of low profits expected for the current year in early May. Since late […]