Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Media Heat: Booksellers on Today
• Gone Ice Fishing!
• Shelf Talk/New Age: 2012. What Does It Mean? Why Care?
• Book Review: Night Haunts
• Notes: General Retailers Edgy; College Bookstore Sales
• Four SAG Award Nominations for Into the Wild
• Robert Gray: Wishing You a 'Fezziwig Smile' for the Holidays
• This Weekend on Book TV: Reality Show
• Holiday Hum: Benediction for Fiction Addiction
• Book Review: In Defense of Food
• Media Heat: Channeling Mark Twain
• Notes: Bookstore Congestion; New NBN Publishers
• Children's Review: Oggie Cooder
• Book Brahmins: The Grinch
• Book Review: Helping Me Help Myself
• Book Brahmins: Roland Merullo
• Book Blues Has Blues, Seeks Community Support
• Movies: A Christmas Quartet
• Notes: College Stores Off Campus; Dollar and a Dream
• Reading--'A Prototype of Independence?'
• BookFinder.com's Most Popular: Knitting, Sex, Sports
• Media Heat: Peter Jennings Remembered
• Image of the Day: Building Up The Age of Shiva
• Holiday Hum: Registers are Ringing
• Notes: Scholastic Plans New Blockbuster; Book Fair Slips
• Awards: Best Business Books of the Year
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Jim Cramer Stays Mad
• Book Sales in October: Up 2.1%, Publishers Say
• Media Heat: Giving Again
• Book Brahmins: Valerie Koehler
• Obituary Note: Caroline Stoufer
• Bookstore Sales: After Strong October, 2007 Is Positive
• Punk Celebration of The Punk Rock Book of Lists
• Notes: Small Retailers Try Harder; Booksellers Make News
• 2007 in the Book Trade: 'Murky,' Yet Strangely Familiar
• Tale of The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• Ingram Adds a Half Dozen Publishers
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• Caravan Project Rolls Out Digitally
• Holiday Hum: Unwrapping Sales in Christmas City
• NBN Adds Seven Publishers
• Amazon Purchases Rowling Book for $4 Million at Auction
• Notes: Indie Trade Groups Unite; New Indie Bookstores Open
• Movies: Bookish Golden Globe Nominations; The Kite Runner
• Media Heat: Martha Celebrates 25 Years of Entertaining
• Robert Gray: Paper Calendars Still Rule the Day
• Free Web Content to Book
• This Weekend on Book TV: Day of Reckoning
• Scholastic: New Roles in Marketing, Publicity and More
• Media Heat: The Kite Runner, the Movie
• Notes: Oz Agency Delays Borders Decision; 'Non' to Amazon
• Children's Review: Will Sheila Share?
• Book Brahmins: Barbara Mertz
• Awards: Sami Rohr Prize Finalists
• Holiday Hum: More Travelers, Sales at BWI Borders Express
• Notes: Bookstore Tourist Cancels Trip; School Book Fairs
• Mandahla: Cookbooks
• Media Heat: Alex Frankel Punches in Early This Morning
• Shelf Talk/Mysteries: Book Group Suggestions
• Holiday Hum: Strong Sales Making Sprits Bright
• Book Review: Shame in the Blood
• Media Heat: Discover Discover Chocolate
• Author Appearance Scams: Part 2
• Literary Adaptations Reel in NYFCC Awards
• Notes: Beecroft Closing Opens Opportunity; Bookstore Honored
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• German Book Office's December Pick: The Seventh Well
• Lessing: 'We Have a Treasure-house of Literature'
• Fishy Cookbook Author's Story Has Sweet Ending
• Media Heat: Brokaw, Beckham, Clinton, Cramer
• Movies: I Am Legend; Youth Without Youth
• Notes: Bertelsmann to Sell Clubs; Book Vault Celebrates
• Ingram to Rep Graphic Arts
• Mandahla: Books and Words
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• A View from the Sales Floor
• Eureka!: Store Has Found New Owners
• Grammy Spoken Word Nominees: Democrats Delight
• Cody's Changes: Ross-san Retires, New GM, Store Revamping
• Media Heat: Dinomummy Only Game in Town
• Notes: General Retail; Books & Books Opens in the Caymans
• Book Review: When Asia Was the World
• Book Brahmins: Katherine Matthen
• Holiday Hum: Making Merry at Inklings Bookshop
• Media Heat: Jeff Foxworthy Talks Up More Gooder Fastily
• Kris Carlson on Oprah Yesterday
• Movies: More Atonement
• Notes: An Unfortunate Story; Bookstore Event Groupies
• Children's Review: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
• This Weekend on Book TV: In the Ruins of Empire
• Robert Gray: How to Handsell Books You Don't Like
• Fighting Fear
• Pennie Picks Water for Elephants
• Notes: Starbucks Chooses Beautiful Boy; Hardwick Dies at 91
• AbeBooks.com Bestsellers in November
• Movies: Atonement, The Golden Compass
• Media Heat: Dinomummy
• Mandahla: Two Memoirs
• Holiday Hum: Happy Hanukkah!
• Mandahla: Locke 1928
• Book Brahmins: Diana Van Vleck
• Notes: Houghton Selling College Division; New Store
• Lynch to Lead Paperchase U.S.
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Eat, Pray, and Love Again on Oprah
• Of Moleskine and Girlfriend Weekends
• No Mystery: Icelandic Series Grows More Popular
• Media Heat: Brunner's Bear Book
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• Movies: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Holiday Book Gift Suggestions: Making the Lists
• Notes: Transition for Powell's; Legal Setback in Utah
• Holiday Hum: Subterranean Books Lights Up for the Holidays
• Media Heat: Lidia in Italy; Lipton Inside
• Movies: Bardem on Acting and Adaptation
• Cool Idea of the Day: Open House for Home Biz Reps
• Notes: Writers Lose Digital Pact; Catalogs Sell Books
• Robert Gray: Selling Books & Remembering to Breathe
• Children's Reviews: Two Titles for the Nursery
• AAP Sales: September Numbers Show Gain
• This Weekend on Book TV: Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes
• Notes: Amazon Subpoena Withdrawn; Lessing Nobel Trip Nixed
• Media Heat: Writer's Roundtable Is Back
• Partners Partnering with Water Tanks of Chicago
• Book Brahmins: Melissa Lion
• Book Review: Bubby's Homemade Pies
• NBCC Creates 'Best Recommended List'
• Books-A-Million's Third Quarter: Comp Sales Up 2.1%
• Authors Take the Stage
• Media Heat: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
• Notes: 'Cyber Monday' Sales Up; Competition Concerns in Oz
• Water Tanks of Chicago
• Holiday Hum: Creatures Are Stirring
• Notes: Mattes Snags a Raven; Borders CEO Buys More Borders
• Movies: The Mist, Starting Out in the Evening
• Book Review: Bonds of Affection
• Media Heat: Gastroanomalies
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Black Friday: General Retail's High Buzz, Deep Discounts
• Black Friday: Booksellers Talk to the Press
• Image of the Day: Girl Scouts Camp in Bookstore
• Media Heat: Present at the Future
• Finding the Fun in Reading
• Notes: New Stores; New Store Names; Times Notable Books
• Mandahla: Last Night at the Lobster Reviewed
• Amazon.com's Kindle: Beyond Notable, Says the Times
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• Image of the Day: 'Retail'
• Third Quarter: Comp-Store Sales Up at B&N, Borders
• Notes: Another Rowling Bestseller; First Book Love
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Day of Battle
• Robert Gray: Transcending the Holidaze
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Media Heat: Giving on Thanksgiving
• Mandahla: Good Spirits Reviewed
• Cool Idea of the Day: New Books for the Troops
• Book Brahmins: Walter Mosley
• Image of the Day: Pajama Party!
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Cooking and In-Laws--Holiday Coming Up?
• Book Review: The Bad Girl
• Notes: Hastings Profits from Eclipse; Kindle Comes
• Shelf Talk/Graphic Lit: Gift-Worthy Titles
• Robert Gray: Black Friday Success Is All About the Game Plan
• Media Heat: Jeff Bezos on the Amazon Kindle
• Book Review: The Lost Sailors
• Notes: NEA Reports Reading Decline; Book Bandit Busted
• Awards: National Outdoor Book Awards
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• Starbucks Shocker: Consumers Cooling on Costly Coffee
• Egmont U.K. to Cross the Pond
• Notes: Gov. Spitzer: 'Never Mind'; Amazon E-Book Reader
• Media Heat: P. Allen Smith Lives in the Garden Home
• This Weekend on Book TV: How Life Imitates Chess
• Book Brahmins: John Connolly
• Awards: National Book Awards
• Oprah Picks Pillars of the Earth
• Bookstore Sales: Another Rally in September
• Media Heat: Well-Behaved Woman Makes Appearance
• Carl Lennertz: Of Paper Cuts and an Author's Thank You
• Notes: New Bookstores; New Bookstore Owners
• Children's Review: The Black Book of Secrets
• Robert Gray: 'I'll Have to Sign Off--I'm in a Crowd'
• Days Daze
• Cool Idea of the Day: Norton Rep at the Book Works
• Harper Brews Up a New Way to Promote Titles
• 'Book' and 'Bookstore' Abroad
• Movies: Love in the Time of Cholera; Beowulf; Elegy
• Notes: Regan Fires Back; Online Sales Tax; Store Openings
• Media Heat: A Jew on the Bayou
• Book Review: The History of the Snowman
• Book Rage in Canada--An Eyewitness Account
• Cool Idea of the Day: Rediscovered Bookshop's Baker's Dozen
• Awards: Les Prix Medicis, Feminae
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Manless in Montclair
• Notes: Harry in Deutschland; Holiday Internet Offers
• Mystery Bestsellers in October: The IMBA List
• Book Brahmins: Russ Marshalek
• Media Heat: Golfer John Daly's Own Damn Way
• Norman Mailer: 1923-2007
• Movies: No Country for Old Men; Margot at the Wedding
• Awards: Man Asian Literary Pirze; New Mexico Book Awards
• Notes: Oscar Wilde Book Sale; Canadian Book Rage
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• AbeBooks.com Bestsellers in October
• Mandahla: Bitter Sweets Reviewed
• General Retail in October: Fasten Your Seatbelts
• BISG's Annual Meeting: Data; Jan Nathan Remembered
• Why Not Catch 21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
• Media Heat: Talk of the Nation Tunes in to Oliver Sacks
• Hyper About BookSense.com Links?
• Notes: College Store Buys Fact & Fiction; Borat 'Pleasurings'
• Trailer for John Gardner's Nickel Mountain
• Notes: University Book Store Cooks; Hemingway's Relocates
• Media Heat: Listening Is an Act of Love
• Children's Review: Tap Dancing on the Roof
• Robert Gray: Can You Hear Me? I'm in a Bookstore! In Vermont!
• This Weekend on Book TV: Miami Book Fair International
• Notes: Regnery Swift-Boated?; New Store in Tallahassee
• Awards: Giller Prize; Impac Dublin Award Longlist
• Book Review: The Match
• The Sense of a BookSense.com Link
• Image of the Day: The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
• Media Heat: Kayce Freed Jennings on Peter Jennings
• Baltimore Chop: A Rookie Hit Near Camden Yards
• Awards: Goncourt, Renaudot
• Book and Movie Fans Adapt for the Holiday Season
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Lou Dobbs's Independents Day
• Notes: Bibliophile Turns Bookseller; Samurai Huggins
• Rainy Day Lowers Boom on Author/Publisher Amazon Links
• Pennie Picks Follett's World Without End
• Book Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
• Lame Duck Books: 'A Very Special Store'
• Booksellers: Decorate Your Store!
• Awards: World Fantasy; USABookNews's Best Books
• Media Heat: Crocodile Hunter's Wife
• Notes: Final Bid on Borders Stores Down Under; NEIBA Grants
• Book Sense: May We Recommend
• Book Review: My Family and Other Saints
• Congratulations: ABA Promotions
• Booksellers' Halloween at McNally Robinson NYC
• Notes: Upbeat CIROBE; Booksense.com @ NPR & NYT
• Image of the Day: Sherman Alexie at High School
• Prices Printed on Books? No Lo Quiere
• Media Heat: Tom Perkins's Education
• Children's Reviews: Holiday Highlights
• Whole Language at 20--And No Child Left Behind