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Northern California's publishing scene features a mix of small presses, independent houses and subsidiaries of New York publishers--in one of the year's biggest deals, Berkeley's Avalon became part of Perseus [...]

Business book publishing is no different than what it purports to cover: it is all about either anticipating or (ideally) creating trends. As technology, market forces and consumer preferences change [...]

September's second weekend was a busy one for booksellers as the Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association, Southeast Booksellers Association and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association all held their fall trade shows. GAMBLING [...]

Dara Horn In the Image Norton (Sept.) Dara Horn's intricate first novel weaves back and forth in time to tell the story of a young New Jersey woman named Leora [...]

A few ups and downs aren't slowing this category's steady growth, as CIROBE prepares for its eighth show While volatility in the publishing industry has made headlines even in the [...]

Despite an irksome label, this broad segment of publishing is partnering with most mainstream categories The mainstreaming of many of the ideas and books that were once labeled New Age [...]

Authors, editors, booksellers and agents unravel the intriguing aspects of this highly competitive category J.A. Jance Enjoys Alternating Between Female and Male Sleuths Dead to Rights, the fourth book in [...]

In springtime, books are rapidly becoming the girls of choice for moms, dads and grads Booksellers may not be decking the hall with holly in preparation, but late spring has [...]

Even at the beginning of the intellectual movement generally called 'New Age' there was much debate over the appropriateness of its title--publishers, authors and booksellers have all expressed concern that [...]

The Big One is at hand. No, not the earthquake. The American Booksellers Association annual convention and trade show, to be held in Los Angeles Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. [...]

It was a Memorial Day weekend full of sometimes mind-boggling ironies and paradoxes. While Miami Beach had a fine convention center, the city's hotel industry proved incapable of hosting a [...]

The 93rd American Booksellers Association annual convention and trade show convenes in Miami Beach, Fla., May 29 - June 1. In the pages that follow, we offer a detailed package [...]

The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) met October 3-5 in Oakland Calif., and a week later, October 10-12, the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA) gathered at RiverCentre in St. [...]

Sometimes even those who celebrate the book as the perfect medium need to hear and feel history, and that is just what happened when City Lights threw itself a huge [...]

Lightning didn't strike for any single title this year at BookExpo. In fact, after the past six months of sluggish book sales, both booksellers and publishers were focused on just-published [...]

THOUGH IT OPENED AND closed on the eve of the American/British--led war with Iraq, very real concerns about what was happening in the world did little to detract from the [...]

Looking forward to more players and an increasingly diverse market, CIROBE gears up for a lucky seventh As exhibitors for the seventh annual Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Books Exhibit [...]

The ABA's many panels on the new media highlighted their attraction--and the pitfalls booksellers need to sidestep The ABA convention's seven panels on multimedia--all of which were SRO--provided an outline [...]

With just one weekend and a few days left to Christmas, the five booksellers PW has surveyed throughout this holiday season hold fast to their optimism and believe that sales [...]

A toothpaste maker shares his ideas on how to be an ethical and profitable bookseller What could a toothpaste manufacturer possibly have in common with an independent bookseller? Quite a [...]

Quality. Even if you can't define it, you know it when you see it. After all, how an anything be determined as being of outstanding or excellent quality without a [...]

Total Quality Management can be a boon to any printer, but not without the commitment of a company's top executives. If you've read any business publications within the last couple [...]

Finding awe--in just about anything--has led Amy Stewart to revel in intense research, which has been integral to her six nonfiction books, all published with Algonquin. Her most recent, the [...]

Selling Satisfaction At Printing Arts Inc., a medium-size sheetfed printer located in Minneapolis, the customer is not just right, but downright insightful. Three years ago, when the company's management decided [...]

UMBA, NCIBA and NAIBA bring booksellers together to commiserate and plan for the upcoming season UMBAs 'Positive' Weekend There was a lot of finger crossing and knocking on wood as [...]

Even before the news of the U.S. bombing in Afghanistan punctuated the second day of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association's annual trade show this month, the September terrorist attacks [...]

THIS YEAR'S SEYBOLD San Francisco, held late last month, was a markedly smaller event than just a year ago--both in terms of individual booth size and attendance--but the e-book sessions [...]

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association goes through with trade show days after disaster The weekend of September 14-16 meant business at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's annual meeting and trade show [...]

This year there were a couple of buzz books and lots and lots of interest across the board IT'S ALL OVER BUT THE READING. With BookExpo America behind us, book-sellers [...]

A fast-action guide to the galleys to grab at the upcoming BEA in Chicago If this is working, it ain't bad. Book-Expo America is a little like Christmas (or any [...]

Just hitting the stores now are the first volumes in a series called Icons-Taschen's entry into the little-book market. Chances are pretty good, however, that these books won't be confused [...]

After hitting the bestseller list, the creators of the Penguin Lives series will do two more Few ideas hatched on New Year's Day turn out to be brilliant. So when [...]

IN SOMETHING OF A SURPRISE, the L.A. Times awarded its annual top fiction honor to David Means for his short story collection Assorted Fire Events, published by the independent New [...]

Two books tell different stories about the same volcanic tragedy in Colombia There are few things more dramatic than an erupting volcano. With each eruption, the earth reminds us that [...]

Under a shroud of secrecy, today Crown published IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black. It is the first [...]

In his upcoming novel, John Grisham takes a risk and leaves the lawyers behind Every year there's a Grisham. It's staple that could be a fixture in the farmer's almanac: [...]

An investigative reporter uses fast food as a metaphor for vast changes in American society Some books are enough to make you lose your appetite. When Upton Sinclair's The Jungle [...]

It happened in the waning days of World War II. After completing her mission to deliver the nuclear essence of the bombs later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to an [...]

After 13 years of nonfiction, Sourcebooks moves into fiction with a Brit and a plan There are some universal landmarks in life: graduations, weddings, birthdays. It wasn't planned, yet somehow [...]

AFTER A $500,000 deal with St. Martin's Press to coauthor a book with Richard Hatch of Survivor fame went sour (Hot Deals, Oct. 2), investigative reporter Peter Lance persevered and [...]

Ecco Press pushes the bioethics debate with a philosopher's views spanning 30 years Peter Singer's ideas spark strong reactions. He made his name in 1980 with the publication of Animal [...]

For a centennial edition, Workman stumbled upon a publicist who took the job personally Can you imagine a childhood with no Lionel trains?' The year was 1994, and a concerned [...]

As soon as agent Ed Victor submitted a rare short story written by the late Iris Murdoch, W.W. Norton editor Bob Weil said he just knew he had to publish [...]

S&S showcases the classic Native American photographs of Edward S. Curtis In this increasingly electronic world, it is somewhat refreshing to hear a publisher describe a project as something that [...]

Copper Canyon hopes to preserve history with the poetry of an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine It's not every day that a poet gets to save a language, although some might argue [...]