Superstores Improve at BN Same-store sales rose 2.2 percent for the first quarter at Barnes & Noble, hitting $1.097 billion overall. Most of that ($959 billion) comes from the BN superstores, as BN.com revenue fell slightly compared to a year ago ($91.4 million) and B. Dalton continues its fade ($31.5 million). Net earnings from continuing […]
Lunch for Monday, May 16
Superstores Improve at BN Same-store sales rose 2.2 percent for the first quarter at Barnes & Noble, hitting $1.097 billion overall. Most of that ($959 billion) comes from the BN superstores, as BN.com revenue fell slightly compared to a year ago ($91.4 million) and B. Dalton continues its fade($31.5 million). Net earnings from continuing operations […]
Lunch for Friday, May 13
The Personnel Section: Doubleday Reorganizes Rights; ABA Adds to Board; and Other News Citing such factors as dwindling domestic sub-rights opportunities and a more challenging environment for foreign rights (“both in acquiring rights from retentive agents and in selling them more strategically”), Doubleday Broadway deputy publisher Michael Palgon announced internally a restructuring of the rights […]
Lunch for Thursday, May 12
Wiley Purchases Sybex Wiley is buying computer book and software publisher Sybex, based in Alameda, CA. With revenues of over $10 million in 2004, Sybex publishes about 100 titles a year. The company’s backlist of about 450 titles focuses on graphics, digital photography, operating systems, programming, and gaming. Company release Logrolling at the Top: When […]
Lunch for Wednesday, May 11
Some PEN Winners Among the recipients of the just-announced PEN Literary Awards: The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction The End of Faith by Sam Harris The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, translated […]
Lunch for Tuesday, May 10
Putnam Adds Conaway and Kahan, Plus More Personnel News New Putnam president Ivan Held has moved quickly to bolster the imprint’s editorial staff, hiring Dan Conaway away from Harper as executive editor, and adding Rachel Kahan, who was at Crown since 1997, as a senior editor. Both will start at Putnam on June 1. Separately, […]