The American Booksellers Association received backlash online after including the paperback edition of Regnery’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters in the July White Box mailing, along with a promotional sales sheet. The book has been criticized as transphobic, and is the source of other controversies, including complaints from Amazon employees, two of whom resigned in protest over the company selling it. In a statement posted to Twitter Wednesday afternoon, the ABA wrote “An anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members. This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA’s ends policies, values, and […]
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Barnes & Noble will close their store in Fort Wayne, ID’s Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center, where they have been an anchor tenant, on August 22. The company will open a new location in the Orchard Crossing Shopping Center in September. Australian bookseller Dymocks aims to add 25 new locations over the next three years, significant growth from their current roster of 50 outlets, CEO Mark Newman told Inside Franchise Business Executive.
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The Tattered Cover’s new downtown Denver store in the McGregor Square development will have its grand opening on Saturday. Later this summer, owners will open a dedicated children’s store in Aurora, CO.
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Once again, Barnes & Noble is replacing a lost location with a much smaller nearby store. In Ulster, NY, where the chain closed a 24,636-square-foot space in April, they have been given a permit for a new 7,656-square-foot space in the same area.
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Barnes & Noble will close their store in Dallas‘s Preston Royal Village on Sunday after 15 years, saying that “we were unfortunately unable to reach a commercial agreement with our landlord to keep this store open.” The company is looking for a new location nearby.
People, Etc.
Elizabeth Trout has been promoted to assistant editor at Kensington. Corporate LSC Communications has renamed its books division — which includes Dover Publications — Lakeside Book Company. CEO Dave McCree said, “The Lakeside name is a nod to our roots and symbolic of the trust our company has earned to help stories of all kinds be shared. We have taken the opportunity to revisit our company values and align ourselves around the true purpose of our business: crafting books for readers and serving our publishing customers.” Controversies Elin Hilderbrand asked Little, Brown to remove the reference to Anne Frank in […]