The election results are in for the ABA board. Burton of The King's English in Salt Lake will serve a two-year term as president; Robert Sindelar, managing partner of Third Place Books in Lake Forest, Wash., as v-p/secretary. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the bookselling event, which took place in Atlanta on Monday, a closed-door session addressed indie booksellers' desire to potentially allow their stores to act as safe havens for groups they feel have been threatened under the Trump administration. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s the news that some might think makes perfect sense: “American Horror Story” will tackle the 2016 presidential election. During an appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live!” Wednesday night, “AHS” co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed that the next season of the popular FX horror anthology... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anja Sieg reports from the American Booksellers Association's (ABA) 12th Winter Institute, which drew a record crowd of 654 booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books and bookstores will be more important than ever in the current climate, US feminist writer Roxane Gay told the American Booksellers Association's 12th Winter Institute in Minneapolis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 87 new members that joined ABA last year were spread across 32 states and the organization's growth is accelerating. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan c.e.o. John Sargent and Nielsen’s Jonathan Stolper kicked off the Digital Book World conference in New York on a positive note about the survival of print, both men reminding us that it could easily have been very different, as the decimated music and video businesses well know. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (Little, Brown), Liu Cixin's apocalyptic sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem (Head of Zeus) and V S Naipaul's A Bend in the River (Picador) are some of the novels which helped Barack Obama during his time in the White House, he has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The surprising victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election has resulted in a boom in books about his rise—a number of which have been crashed and rushed out the door. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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President Obama in the Oval Office on Friday during an interview with Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for The New York Times. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robin Hyman, former chairman of Laurence King and former president of the Publishers' Association, has died peacefully in his sleep. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Book Industry Guild of New York's annual President's Night event, Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch spoke on his four-decade career in publishing, innovations in the industry, and the industry-wide efforts to work in a market with flat revenue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan Ruszala joins the nascent marketing technology services company as v-p of sales, said CEO and founding partner Evan Schnittman. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Broadcaster Jonathan Fryer and columnist and human rights campaigner Joan Smith have been re-elected to the board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collections Society (ALCS). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three publishers are rushing out books targeted to help readers who are opposed to Donald Trump's election cope over the next four years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A political manifesto written by Rebecca Solnit in 2004 has received a boost after the election, with publisher Haymarket Books giving away 30,500 ebooks and selling out of print copies. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the first full week of sales after the election, unit sales slipped 1% over the comparable week in 2015. New books by Megyn Kelly and Bernie Sanders had solid starts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books with "Trump" in the title got a post-election boost, as did many titles that deal with the big themes of the campaigns. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New books releasing this fall through January feature spiritual practices and insights for finding hope, solace, and a new way forward in a divided and hectic world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers from across the country on what they are recommending to their customers, from escapist fiction to insightful nonfiction to help understand, well, what just happened. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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