Mon, 06 Feb 2012
Following the example of iconic bookstores like New England Mobile Book Fair and Politics & Prose, 22-year-old R.J. Julia is putting itself on the selling block.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
In a world where people increasingly consume their content on multiple platforms, questions are swirling about why publishers are not allowing readers easy access to both digital and print. (Studies show that most e-book readers also buy print books.)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
Edwards Brothers and Malloy Inc., both based in Ann Arbor, have combined to create Edwards Brothers Malloy.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012
The man who grew the Hudson News chain from a single store in LaGuardia Airport in 1987 to roughly 600 stores in the U.S. and Canada, Robert B. Cohen, died; he was 86.
Workman Publishing Co. is looking for a Managing Editor. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone.
Writes of Spring: Stories and Prose Edited by Gary Schulze and Pat Frovarp
This week's print issue of PW
In this week's issue, we inaugurate a new column, the ToC Perspective, featuring the minds behind the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference; plus we've got the spring Audio listings, author interviews and more.
Obituary: Liberation Bookstore Founder Una Mulzac
Bookseller Una Mulzac (1923-2012), founder of the Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore on West 131st Street in New York City, died late last month at the age of 88.
Authors on the Air February 6, 2012: Kareem Adbul-Jabbar, Krys Lee, Robert Harris
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be on The View on February 7 for his children's book What Color is My World: The Lost History of African American Inventors (Candlewick Press, 9780763645649).
| Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) | Children's Fiction |
| Elf on the Shelf | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Private: #1 Suspect | Hardcover Fiction |
| Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Mass Market Paper |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Trade Paper |
Publishing news from across the Web
In France, where customers pay the same whether they buy on line, from a chain or from a bookseller, the economic crisis is nosing into the conversation.
Firestone, Colo. gets its first bookstore.
"Not since" is always good.
Rule #1: bring candy.
