Barnes & Noble has been negotiating with their landlord in Coral Springs, FL over the renewal of their lease, which expires in February. By the landlord’s account, BN has said it cannot operate the 27,000-square-foot store profitably, and wants to renew for a store of only 12,000 to 13,000 square feet, at a lower lease rate. Simon & Schuster has expanded its rapid replenishment program this holiday season to cover all independent booksellers nationwide. And Scholastic has launched their holiday Indie Express Ship program. In “bestseller” news, two weeks after their release, five of six individually-sold Dean Koontz stories occupy […]
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At Trident Media Group, Martha Wydysh and Sulamita Garbuz have both been promoted to associate agents. Nora Rawn joins as foreign rights agent. She was most recently senior editor for Lonely Planet. The late Monika Schoeller, longtime publisher of S. Fischer Verlag and daughter of publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck, was remembered at a service in Germany on Monday. Best Of The New York Times Book Review released its list of 100 Notable Books of 2019. That joins the list of top 100 books from the Washington Post, and the big best books of the year package from the NY Public […]
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Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]
Former California Barnes & Noble Bookseller Sues for Age Discrimination, Seeking Class Action Status
Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Barbara Tavres, 59, filed suit against the bookseller in the US District Court in Northern California, seeking class action status and alleging age discrimination. After working for B&N in community relations since 2006, most recently at a bookstore in Emeryville, CA — during a career of positive performance reviews that included winning their Above & Beyond award in 2016 — Tavres was told she was being terminated on September 9. She charges that earlier that same day, her district manager Phil Alexander and “other management-level Barnes & Noble employees had participated in a recurring weekly […]
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Maggie Richards has been promoted to svp associate publisher at Holt. Serena Jones, promoted to editor-in-chief earlier this year, has stepped back from that position and is executive editor “to devote more time to her books and authors,” as new president and publisher Amy Einhorn looks for a new editor-in-chief. Claire Harris has been promoted to foreign rights director at Foundry Literary + Media. Luke McCord has joined Random House Children’s Books as a Production Associate. He was previously a Production Editor at Peter Lang Publishing. The American Booksellers Association’s inaugural Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards have gone to Billie Bloebaum at Third […]
Bookselling: Amazon Books In Scottsdale, Interabang Reopens, and More
The 20th Amazon Books location opens today in Scottsdale, AZ in a modest 4,000-square-space. It features devices, toys, games, customer favorites and even some books. Though the stores originally did not disclose the discounted prices for Amazon Prime participants, they are now using electronic price tags to display a range of information. As promised, Interabang Books in Dallas will reopen Thursday in a temporary space after the store’s original home was wiped out by a tornado in October. The rebuilding of that shopping center could take a year or more. Former manager and events coordinator at Malaprop’s in North Carolina, […]