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With industry sales largely flat, one way publishers have maintained their profit margins in recent years is by operating more efficiently and taking costs out of the supply chain. But [...]

WHEN HARPERCOLLINS WEST was getting ready to publish Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: Restoring the Earth for a Green 21st Century, author and noted environmentalist David Brower [...]

No fewer than six bidders turned out for a three-day auction of The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide by the founders of the World RPS Society, brothers Graham and [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 78 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

From weatherworking to fertility magick, Gerina Dunwich reveals the ancient art of casting spells in Exploring Spellcraft (Jan., $12.99 paper), a series that also includes ...Celtic Druidism (Mar., $12.99 paper) [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 72 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

For the past several weeks, Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife or, The Star Gazer has been lurking just below PW's trade paperback bestsellers top 15. Considering its stellar reviews and [...]

Buoyed by consumer demand, many booksellers are finally embracing Book Sense plastic gift cards, which were introduced in October 2003. For many booksellers, Book Sense gift cards offered a much-needed [...]

Bud, Blossom & Leaf(Feb., $14.95 paper) by Dorothy Morrison contains over 125 spells, rituals and recipes for gardeners. Beltanc (Mar., $14.95 paper) by Raven Grimassi is devoted to the rituals [...]

Penguin Group USA is repackaging some of its paperbacks in high-end trade paper format as part of a new marketing initiative called Penguin Essential Editions. The list will contain books [...]

Indiana Jones! Batman! The Mummy! Need we say more: it's summer at the movies, and box-office hordes will be more congested than the lines at Disney. The aforementioned heroes are [...]

45 ABINGDON PRESS Plain People Look at the Beatitudes by Wil -liam Barclay (Mar., paper, $4.95) presents a 'way of the Beatitudes' as a guide for Christian living. An Abingdon [...]

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE, the Washington-based division of New-house Communications that supplies religion coverage to secular newspapers and magazines throughout the country, announced last week a new syndicated ad program that [...]

About 10 years ago, the trade paperback bestseller chart was dominated by nonfiction titles. This has turned around, with fiction titles now taking the majority of the slots. On this [...]

From Red Wheel: Celtic Wisdom Sticks (Oct., $24.95 paper) by Caitlin Matthews explains an ancient Bardic oracle based on the ogam or tree alphabet. Spirit Maps (Oct., $19.95 paper) by [...]

With a jolt of innovation, the future can catch up with the past. That's just what Bantam is trying to pull off with a new, slimmer format for literary fiction [...]

Add some international flavor to your sideline offerings with these foreign favorites If the year 2000 is any indication, international artisans and creative thinkers will flourish in the retail world [...]

Carol J. Adams contends that vegetarianism is a spiritual practice in The Inner Art of Vegetarianism (Jan., $15 paper), which has a companion volume, Meditations on the Inner Art of [...]

Spring will see new releases from veteran creators in the graphic novel field, with long-awaited work from some of the masters of the form and the follow-up to a celebrated [...]

ABBEVILLE PRESS The It's a Wonderful Life Cookbook (Sept., $7.95 cloth) by Sarah Key features classic American dishes inspired by the beloved Frank Capra film; growing vines for making wines [...]

An eagerly awaited collection of an indie standout and a print edition of a notoriously complicated webcomic are among the highlights of this spring's graphic novels. TOP 10 All the [...]

This spring will be a strong season for poetry. Alongside the usual crop of'selecteds' from famous poets--including Robert Pinsky, Charles Wright and Marge Piercy--there's a slew of exciting volumes of [...]

Earth Day Anniversary Celebrated With Bumper Crop of Books April 22 marks the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, a day devoted to the active recognition that the world is fragile [...]

Fifty years after the liberation, new and backlist titles are bringing in new readers MAY 8, 1945 marked the end of World War II. Yet fifty years later, the world [...]

Renowned authors are launching exciting ventures, including a near-future thriller from Richard K. Morgan, a fantasy spy novel from Hannu Rajaniemi, and epic fantasies from genre legends Nancy Springer and [...]

--Workman. The Dinner Doctor ($14.95 paper, $26.95 hardcover) by Anne Byrn has a delectable 447,000 copies in print after its third printing of 80,000 copies--all pro-publication. --Workman. 1,000 Places to [...]

'Raw' 'unsparing,' 'deeply felt' were just some of the cheering Michiko Kakutani allowed herself in her New York Times review of Pete Townshend's memoir, Who I Am (Harper). Townshend, the [...]

From Penguin Compass: Judi Hall surveys a range of divination methods to show readers how to predict what lies ahead in What Does My Future Hold? (Jan., $20 paper). Combining [...]

Love and the World (May, $16.95 paper) by Robert Sardello outlines the practice of spiritual psychology, or what he terms 'soul practice.' Alive in Cod's World (May, $16.95 paper) by [...]

A NEW YORK CITY publisher of terrifically clever gift books and sidelines, The Little Bookroom announces several charming new offerings as it enters its third year in business. The unique [...]

Prion's Film Ink Series (Trafalgar Sq., dist.) presents the novels, famous by association, that inspired the directors of some of the legendary films of the century. Two new titles, Thieves [...]

There's little doubt that interest in sustainability issues has increased dramatically across the publishing supply chain in recent years. Issues like forest certification weren't even on the radar screen until [...]

Coming into Their Own In 1978, in an occasional column called Predictions, PW asked a number of publishing executives whether they believed the trade paperback would supplant the hardcover book [...]

Organizers and minders head the list of spring products TIME SLIPPING AWAY? Motivation on empty? Get organized in style--several styles, in fact--and carpe diem before the millennium strikes, Forest Saver [...]

Contemporary romances and erotica are branching out in exciting ways, including choose-your-own-adventure books and some matches between royals and commoners that upend or entirely abandon the familiar Cinderella story TOP [...]

(Lantern, dist.) Stories from ancient India's Vedic enlightenment tradition are collected in All Love Flows to the Self (May, $24.95) by Kumuda Reddy, who also applies the principles of Ayurvedic [...]

Spring's vigor is matched by healthy sales, as classic topics maintain their vitality IT'S BECOME A FAMILIAR refrain over the past four or five years: the vigor of religion book [...]

JANUARY TOUCHING THE VOID Starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron Directed by Kevin MacDonald Release date January 23 N.Y./L.A. (IFC Films) Novel by Joe Simpson (Perennial; trade paper) * Documentary about [...]

BACK IN 1759, VOLTAIRE WAS CLEARLY ONTO something when he said, 'We must cultivate our garden.' Indeed, countless horticulturists, armed with spades and seed packets, have followed his dictum in [...]

The DIY trend kick-started by a younger generation forming Stitch 'n Bitch knitting circles in the early 2000s hardly seems like a trend any longer. A decade and change on, [...]

JANUARY 1 * Jon Scieszka's Trucktown: Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka, illus. by David Gordon, Loren Long and David Shannon (S&S, $16.99). 350,000 copies. Poseur by Rachel Maude (Poppy, $9.99 [...]

AT WHALE OF A TALE Children's Bookstore (Irvine, Calif.), shoppers can find new books located in a specially made doll house. At Lauriat's locations in New England and the mid-Atlantic [...]

Traditional sidelines continue to grow AS THE MANY new companies, lines and products at the major spring shows attest to, traditional sidelines are strong and continuing to expand. Among the [...]

These days, the most famous garden at the White House isn't filled with roses, but rows of tomatoes, peppers, and squash. And it's not just the Obamas who are digging [...]

The single most important Malcolm X book is the story of his life, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, first published in 1965, currently available in [...]

How women can advance their careers and how people and companies can succeed in the digital economy are the subjects of several of the spring's most important business books. TOP [...]

It has come to this: fast turnaround, great pricing, and best quality--the propositions defining the modern print manufacturing industry--are no longer enough to attract publishers. In fact, suppliers offering just [...]

Natasha Hoffman and Hamilton 11111 use dowsing and channeling to read messages from megalithic monuments in The Standing Stones Speak (Feb., $24.95). Zen Meditations (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Osho envisions [...]

Akashic Books Fuck, Now There Are Two of You Adam Mansbach, illus. by Owen Brozman (Oct., $15.95, hardcover) First printing: 100,000 Publicity & marketing highlights: Author events: drive-time radio tour; [...]

PICTURE BOOKS 1 Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $15 ISBN 0-688-12897-1 2 Guess How Much I Love You (board book). Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick, $6.99 [...]