New Investor Makes Loan, Considers Stake to MacAdam/Cage By Calvin Reid - 11/17/2009
After more than a year of layoffs and complaints of nonpayment from creditors as it struggles to restructure, San Francisco-based independent publisher MacAdam/Cage has secured a new investor who is offering an immediate loan and an offer to buy a 30% stake in the house.
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Small Montreal Publisher Is Back in Spotlight With New Jolie-Pitt Tell All By Rachel Deahl - 11/10/2009
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based house that made headlines for selling the rights to Ian Halperin’s now-bestselling Michael Jackson biography Unmasked, is looking to get back in the headlines with another Halperin tell-all, this one about Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
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National Bookstore Day: The View from Southern California by Wendy Werris - 11/09/2009
Skylight Books of Los Angeles held a wine and cheese reception that brought together many of the areas independent bookseller who shared stories of the art of bookselling. Diesel Books said National Bookstore Day turned into National Reader Appreciation Day.
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RJ Julia Launches Gift Book Site By Judith Rosen - 11/09/2009
Madison, Ct.'s RJ Julia Booksellers has begun the soft launch for the online version of its gift book program.
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Story Plant Revamps Model by Calvin Reid - 11/02/2009
Founded in 2008 by two veteran publishing professionals—former Berkley publisher Lou Aronica and literary agent Peter Miller—Story Plant is a publishing venture originally intended to focus on a list of hardcover genre fiction. But after releasing its first two hardcover books last fall, Aronica acknowledged that he and Miller have had to rethink the whole venture.
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Independents Plan Events for National Bookstore Day 11/02/2009
More than 100 bookstores across the country are planning to participate in the PW-sponsored event National Bookstore Day this Saturday, November 7. Event organizers are hoping promotions tied to the day will attract local and national media coverage—and, in turn, draw new customers into bookstores.
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Soapbox: Now More Than Ever by Carl Lennertz - 11/02/2009
There's been some talk recently about the future of the fall regional association trade shows: GLiBA, MBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, NEIBA, NCIBA, PNBA, SCIBA and SIBA. Every August and September, I curse these shows.
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Phaidon Opens Temporary Store in Manhattan By Lynn Andriani - 10/28/2009
Phaidon Press is opening a “pop-up” store in Soho, New York City, next week. The 2,500-square-foot store, at 100 Wooster Street, will be open from November 2 through January 2010. Store hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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Interlink Kilimanjaro Book Begins Climb By Judith Rosen - 10/29/2009
Interlink founder Michael Moushabeck's book about his expendition to Mount Kilimanjaro is building up sales.
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The Gen Z Reader: Finding Profits in an Elusive Market By Wendy Werris - 10/29/2009
Kristen McLean, executive director of the Association of Booksellers for Children, presented a detailed outline of the technological challenges facing the teen book market at the fall meeting of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association on October 24. After commenting on the proliferation of teen Web sites, blogs, and social networks and how they are transforming the way books are read...
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SIBA Launches Collective Ad Program By Claire Kirch - 10/28/2009
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has launched a new banner ad campaign under which the associaiton will coordinate the promotion of one title across participating stores Web sites.
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North Star Press Tries Some New Things at 40 By Claire Kirch - 10/26/2009
Still family-run, North Star Press is upping its output and trying some new marketing approaches in its 40th year.
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Soapbox: Selling Green by Jennifer Kaplan - 10/26/2009
Business owners are realizing that they have a responsibility to help protect the environment. But what about your bookstore? Where do you fit in, and can changes you enact really make a difference?
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ABA Asks for Government Investigation of Price Wars By Jim Milliot - 10/22/2009
The American Booksellers Association sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate what it believes is the illegal predatory pricing practices of Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target in selling hardcovers for as low as $8.98. The ABA said it believes the big box retailers are trying to "win control of the market for hardcover bestsellers."
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OR’s New Model at Work in ‘Going Rouge’ By Michael Coffey - 10/22/2009
New progressive press OR Books is using an e-book, print-on-demand strategy to release its first book, Going Rouge.More
Encounter's New Imprint Crashes Short Books By Lynn Andriani - 10/20/2009
New York independent Encounter Books is creating a new imprint, Encounter Broadsides, which will publish 6,000-word titles by conservative writers on a tight turnaround schedule. The first books in the series are all 48-page, $5.99 paperbacks: How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections by John Fund (Nov. 3) and Why Obama’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster by Dr. David Gratzer (Nov. 10).
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Laughter Sets the Scene at NCIBA Children’s Author Breakfast By Wendy Werris - 10/15/2009
At a breakfast that was more stand-up comedy than standard presentation, authors James Dashner (l.), Nancy Farmer and Berkeley Breathed charmed the sold-out crowd gathered for the Children’s Author Breakfast at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association annual trade show in Oakland on October 10. Award-winning YA author Nancy Farmer began her talk with a humorous, detailed description of her recent eye surgery...
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