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In May this year, in a significant move aimed at promoting literature and the written word, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, the Ruler of Sharjah, announced [...]

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 [...]

THE GATHERING OF INDUSTRY professionals in Manhattan earlier this month generated an urgent call for action on several fronts. Since that May 5 meeting, the conversation has continued, and in [...]

The election may have changed when people shopped, but it didn't change how much they bought, according to Molly Olivo, book buyer at the Barstons Child's Play stores in the [...]

It's called Music City USA, but Publishing City USA might be just as apt a nickname for Nashville, home to a community of high-powered publishers and other book-related companies whose [...]

JASON IS SARCASTIC AS HECK,' says Michele Sulka, v-p for marketing and communications of Joseph-Beth Booksellers, who, with Jen Reynolds, is hosting PW and Jason Gobble for coffee at the [...]

BY THE AGE OF 70, MOST traveling salesmen have retired--or at least wish they had. Not Wes Caliger. The Midwestern sales rep for Heinecken & Associates is no Willy Loman; [...]

WHEN DENNIS LEHANE smiles, small wrinkles form at the corners of his mouth; his freckles rearrange. It's a dramatic difference from the scowling young man with a single loose forelock [...]

SEATTLE, HOMETOWN OF Starbucks, consumes an estimated 25% of the world's gourmet coffee. Random House BDD rep David Glenn, the 40-year-old father of two-year-old Isabella, with another baby on the [...]

DESPITE DISMAL HOLIDAY sales reports from many general retailers, there have been some major exceptions, including the biggest discounter, Wal-Mart, as well as Target and certain online retailers. A survey [...]

Flat was the new up at many bookstores that participated in PW's annual summer sales survey. Most were trying to keep up with last summer's sales, which got a bump [...]

This year the play's the thing, or at least one of the things, that could pump up summer sales. Harry Potter is back. Most booksellers are counting on Harry Potter [...]

The professional program at FIL opened with a keynote address from Andrew Wylie, one of the world's most renowned literary agents. Wylie spoke about the role literary agents play today, [...]

As Chitra Divakaruni walks into Houston's Blacksmith coffee shop, it's easy to spot her among the other patrons. It's not that the Calcutta-born author is Indian--which isn't unusual in Houston--it's [...]

Many participants at the annual meeting and trade show of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), held October 6 and 7 in Washington, D.C., had anticipated a falloff in [...]

PW: Theodore Rex (see review, p. TK) is the second volume of your proposed biographical trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt. How was the writing of it affected by the 21-year hiatus [...]

If The Corrections' author Jonathan Franzen was concerned that his audience would be too consumed with the crisis surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks to pay attention to his new [...]

A little more than one year after its debut, Contentville.com has gone out of business. The company, which launched July 12, 2000, and had 57 employees at one point, had [...]

It seems like another era. The Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association, the youngest and smallest of the regional booksellers associations, held its annual meeting September 6-9 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Although [...]

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has decided not to pursue the subpoenas it issued to three bookstores in its ongoing investigation into the finances of Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey [...]

FOR TWO WEEKS in August, Publishing Mills AudioBooks was for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $850,000. Publisher Jessica Kaye told PW that the listing was 'just an [...]

ZANY BRAINY HAS been purchased by Right Start, a chain of specialized educational toy stores for infants and children up to age four. Under the terms of the agreement, Right [...]

WAL-MART, THE NATION'S largest retailer, has set up a college bookstore on its Web site, promising more than 300,000 textbooks for sale with an average discount of 20%. Books-A-Million, Wal-Mart.com's [...]

Publishers have been whispering about it for months, and the most recent Media Metrix numbers confirm it: the biggest bookseller on the Internet after Amazon is not BN.com--it's eBay subsidiary [...]

The Borders.com Web site relaunched on August 2 under the management of Amazon.com. Borders management threw in the online retailling towel in April in the wake of a disappointing Christmas [...]

ZANY BRAINY, the 10-year-old children's multimedia retailer, has been purchased by Waterton Management, a Los Angeles investment company, for $115 million. The deal, which awaits Delaware Bankruptcy Court approval, would [...]

DESPITE A LIST FOCUSED on conservative and libertarian political issues, Texas-based Spence Publishing is not only looking to attract left liberal readers, but is revamping its Web site and catalogue [...]

Alibris.com, the used, rare and out-print online bookstore, has reached an agreement to list its titles online with Baker & Taylor's Title Source II and R.R. Bowker's www.booksinprint.com Web site. [...]

BOOKSCAN, A SUBSIDIARY of Dutch media conglomerate VNU that provides books sales data to publishers, has added point-of-sale information from Borders Group stores to its sales reports and has also [...]

A SEATTLE, WASH., prosecutor will not execute a search warrant issued by a Seattle judge to force Amazon.com to turn over the names of customers who purchased a pair of [...]

ECAMPUS.COM, the online college retailer founded by Wallace Wilkinson two years ago, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company also reported that Book Acquisition has agreed to acquire the [...]

The multimedia retailer hopes to keep most of its stores ZANY BRAINY, the children's multimedia retailer, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The 10-year-old company has struggled since acquiring rival [...]

BERTELSMANN IS MERGING the administration of its online bookstore, Bol.com, with its book club and direct-to-consumer division, Direct Group. Under the plan, Bol.com stores in China, Finland, Germany, Japan, the [...]

AS AN EVER-INCREASING VARIETY of digital publishing companies with incompatible e-book formats compete for market share, a company with a narrow vision just might have a chance. Japanese-backed Internet start-up [...]

QUESTIA.COM, the online research site aimed at college students, has laid off 139 employees--nearly half the company's overall workforce. According to Linda Cunningham, Questia's V-p for publishing, the move is [...]

PGW REP PEG O'DONNELL has just arrived in Boston from her home in Keene, N.H., a quaint town two hours north. Depending on traffic--and the status of Boston's massive highway [...]

PW: What gave you the impetus to write Son of a Grifter(see reviewp. 56)? KW: I've been told for 20 years that I should write a book, but my life [...]

Follett's online textbook store efollett.com has joined B&N.com and Amazon.com in adding e-books to its product mix. The eFollett e-book store launched March 27 with 400 titles available for download [...]

The Walt Disney Company announced last week that it will eliminate 4,000 from its worldwide workforce, but the cuts will have only a small impact on its Hyperion and children's [...]

PW: You won a Pulitzer for your biography of Truman. How was writing the biography John Adams (see review, p. 47) different? DM: With this book there was no one [...]

PW: You began County Matters as a series of pieces for Talk magazine. What was the impetus behind finishing it as a book? MK: Tina [Brown, editor-in-chief of Talk and [...]

Judge will still hear arguments on the merits IN A PARTIAL VICTORY for Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern [...]

JUST MONTHS AFTER eliminating 75 jobs in an effort to curtail costs and streamline content (News, Nov. 27, 2000), Britannica.com is letting go another 68 workers, or an additional 20% [...]

San Diego's Blue Door Bookstore is closing after 40 years in business and less than one year tinder the ownership of Patti DeYoung, a native of Kentucky and a former [...]

BOOKS-A-MILLION has agreed to buy the inventory of 19 Crown Books stores in metropolitan Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and has bid $900,000 for the property leases. The remaining 44 Crown [...]

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month (News, Feb. 19), Crown Books filed a motion last week for a liquidation sale of the remainder of the chain, and [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has issued a unanimous decision to overturn a preliminary injunction awarded to Amazon.com by a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle in [...]

The election that wouldn't end provides plenty of book fodder for publishers Now that the Supreme Court has finished its deliberations on the 2000 presidential election, the publishing industry is [...]

XLIBRIS.COM, the online publishing company 49% owned by Random House, has laid off 10 middle managers in marketing, operations and IT. The wages saved by the company will be used [...]