Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Movies: The Hobbit
• Robert Gray: When Scrooge Met Cratchit
• Notes: Le Guin, Guild and Google
• Chicagoland Bestsellers
• Media Heat: Al Gore, Wally Shawn
• Happy Holidays!
• Bezos on the 'Long Form'
• Image of the Day: Snuggling with Santa
• Media Heat: Christmas Day Authors
• Notes: Sales Update; Another B&N Investor Doubles Stake
• U.K.'s Holiday Season Top 10: A Dan Brown Xmas
• Television: Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
• This Weekend on Book TV: Hope for Animals and Their World
• Children's Review: Bunny Days
• Holiday Hum: December and Beyond at Aaron's Books
• After the Storm: Online Sales, Delayed Shopping, Extended Hours
• Movies: Hidden Secrets in Twilight: New Moon
• O'Reilly: 'Buy Where You Shop'
• Television: Gaiman's Bookstore Inspiration; Another Pacific Book
• Notes: Final Day for Borders U.K.; New Owner at City Lights
• Book Review: Into the Story
• Media Heat: Walter Isaacson, Orhan Pamuk
• Debut Author: That Magical Connection
• Book Review: The Unnamed
• Media Heat: Larry McMurtry's Literary Life
• Television: Booking HBO's The Pacific
• The Nitty Gritty E-Reader
• Image of the Day: A Pillar of Bookmarks
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Theft Recommendations
• Notes: Stormy Holiday Sales; French Court Blocks Google
• Image of the Day: A Book Tree Grows in Australia
• Media Heat: Perfect 10 Diet
• AAP: October Sales Jump 10.2% as E-Books Soar
• Notes: Holiday Shoppers Cautious; States Focus on Sales Tax
• Television: HBO's The Pacific
• Dear Santa: 'Save Independent Bookstores'
• Awards: International Prize for Arabic Fiction
• Movies: War Horse
• Book Review: Crazy Like Us
• Robert Gray: Between the Pages--Collecting Bookmarks
• Book Brahmin: Charles Todd
• Awards: Pulpwood Queen Book Club Books of the Year
• Chicagoland Bestsellers
• Image of the Day: Trees from Books
• Holiday Hum: Gift Suggestions Galore at the Bookstore
• Gift Guides: Everyone's Making a List
• Notes: Bookstore Ghost Town; NetGalley Links with Edelweiss
• This Weekend on Book TV: Stones into Schools
• Media Heat: Act Like a Lady, Argue with Idiots
• GBO's December Pick: A Happy Man
• Movies: The Last Spymaster; Murder in the High Himalaya
• Book Review: Veracity
• Movies: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Borders Teams Up With Shortcovers, Now Called Kobo
• Awards: Too Big to Fail, Best Business Book of the Year
• Holiday Hum: Humorous and Helpful Events
• Our Top 10 Lists 2009, Part 3
• Media Heat: Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present
• Notes: Macmillan to Add Enhanced E-Books
• Book Brahmin: Jasper Fforde
• Children's Book Review: Zeus: King of the Gods, Olympians #1
• Awards: Grand Master Joe Haldeman
• Movies: Let the Great World Spin
• Notes: Stephen Covey's E-Exclusive with Amazon
• Reading the West: December Picks
• Image of the Day: "Beautiful Ballerina, You Are the Dance!"
• Book Review: The Theory of Light and Matter
• Media Heat: John Grisham on the Diane Rehm Show
• Our Top Ten Lists 2009, Part Two
• Obituary Note: Mark Gates
• Sales Ups and Downs
• Movies: Portman in P&P&Z; The Ghost
• Image of the Day: Mortenson at Kepler's
• Mystery Bestsellers
• Book Review: The Harvard Psychedelic Club
• Media Heat: Connected on Colbert
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Notes: Random Claims E-Rights; 'Web-Monday' Sale
• Image of the Day: Julianne Moore, Feeling Safe at the Strand
• Holiday Hum: Music, Mittens and More at Books & Company
• Chicagoland's Top-Selling Titles Last Week
• Green Porno and Rossellini Draw a Crowd
• Notes: E-Book Battle Continues; Kirkus Closes
• Book Review: Dying Gasp
• Book Brahmin: Loren D. Estleman
• The People Speak on the History Channel
• Media Heat: Alice Sebold on The Lovely Bones, the Movie
• Obituary Note: Joel C. Turner
• Holiday Hum: Random House's Gift to Booksellers
• Indie Booksellers and the Digital Transition
• Notes: HarperCollins to Delay E-Books; Elliott Bay on the Move
• Our Top Ten Lists 2009, Part One
• This Weekend on Book TV: American Original
• Media Heat: The Pioneer Woman Cooks
• Going Rogue's 'State-of-the-art Insights into the Book Trade'
• Movies: The Lonely Hearts Club
• Awards: MWA's Grand Master, Raven and Ellery Queen Honors
• Sourcebooks
• Book Brahmin: Mary Ann Hoberman
• 2010: The Year Ahead
• The Perfect 10 Diet
• Sourcebooks: New Imprints, Houses
• The Digital and Electronic Future Today
• Horrid Henry's Sweet Sales
• Fiction: Women's and Historical Fiction
• Getting into--and Staying in--Colleges
• Reconnecting People with Poetry
• Sourcebooks's New Logo: A Bright Idea
• Sourcebooks Says No to the Recession
• Sourcebooks: '21st Century Book Publisher'
• Movies: One Day
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Notes: Two Big Houses to Delay e-Big Books; Mavjee Crowned
• Television: Pillars of the Earth
• Media Heat: Moon River and Me by Andy Williams
• Give Books: 'Cheese and Crackers Never Changed Anyone's Life'
• Children's Reviews: Gift Books 2009, Part III
• Book Brahmin: Melissa Hart
• Movies: Teaser Trailer for HP & the Deathly Hallows
• Television: Private
• Awards: Murakami Honored by Spain
• Image of the Day: The Mom & (Soda) Pop Store
• Nook in Stores: Only a Look
• Notes: B&T Buys Blackwell North America, James Bennett
• Media Heat: When Art Worked
• Holiday Gift Books: Still More
• Holiday Hum: Giving Back
• After 35 Years, Lambda Rising to Close
• Movies: Gun, with Occasional Music
• Media Heat: American Sketches
• Holiday Gift Books: For Logophiles
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Notes: Bezos Talks E-Books; Anderson's Opens Gift Store
• The Making of ComicArts
• Her First Typewriter
• Cool Idea of the Day: Birthday Shopping Spree
• Chicagoland's Top Sellers Last Week
• Awards: Guardian First Book; Grammy Spoken-Word Nominees
• Holiday Gifts: Books for Cooks
• Robert Gray: Marking Books, Marking Time
• Holiday Hum: Lyon Books Keeps It Local
• Book Review: Cairo Modern
• Media Heat: Live from FAO Schwarz, It's Jon Scieszka!
• Notes: Ho Hum, November General Retail Sales Flat
• Book Brahmin: Carlene Bauer
• Notes: Amazon's Google Motion Nixed; Cyber Monday Sales
• Movies: First Peek at Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
• This Weekend on Book TV: Women Lead the Way
• Book Review: Cutting Up Playgirl
• Media Heat: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
• Top Sellers at AbeBooks.com in November
• Gift Books for the Holidays, Part III
• Notes: E-Reader's 8-Track Moment; Gaiman on Audiobooks
• Movies: Breath
• Awards: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Television: The Colorado Kid
• Media Heat: Armstrongs, Mortenson, Huckabee & More
• Children's Reviews: Gift Books, Part II
• Book Brahmin: Terese Svoboda
• Midwest Connections Picks
• Pennie Picks U Is for Undertow
• Movies: Beautiful Creatures
• Awards: Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize
• Image of the Day: The Grinch Who Sells Books for Christmas
• Notes: Cyber Monday Sales Up 11%; Amazon Hits New High
• Media Heat: Lance Armstrong and Comeback 2.0
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• More Gift Books for the Holiday Season
• Book Review: Memoir
• Tale of Two Websites: Copperfield's Books and Lift Bridge
• 'Shopping for Books Is Like Shopping for Clothes, or a Husband'
• Holiday Hum: Just the Right Book!
• Box Office Boffo: Based on Books
• Holiday Viewing: A Single Man
• Book Review: The Land of Green Plums
• Media Heat: Here's the Deal--Howie Mandel on GMA
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Notes: Black Friday Results; Borders U.K. Shutting Down
• Obituary Note: Hans Georg Heepe
• Awards: Costa Book Awards Shortlist
• Quarterly Report: Sales Drop at B&N and Borders
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Television: FX Captures Twilight Films
• This Weekend on Book TV: Sweet Thunder
• Robert Gray: Remembrance of Black Fridays Past
• Media Heat: Black Friday
• Notes: SIBA's Social Networking Summit; Gaiman in Naperville
• Children's Reviews: Gift Books for Children 2009, Part I
• Image of the Day: Glam Kitty
• Movies: Jones Bails Out of The Lincoln Lawyer
• Hudson Booksellers: 2009 Best Books
• Deeper Understanding: In Thanksgiving
• Notes: Black Friday and Holiday Season Prognostications
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Turkey Day
• Quirky Images of the Day: Contest Winners
• Book Review: Fun with Problems
• Obituary Note: Jim Sutton
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Book Review: 1938: Hitler's Gamble
• Notes: Google 2.0; New Moon Waxes
• Movies: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
• Image of the Day: Agassi Continues Open Tour
• Media Heat: Sullenberger Lands on Oprah
• Awards: Bad Sex in Fiction Shortlist
• Robert Gray: A Shame List by Any Other Name
• New Moon Rises Today
• Media Heat: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson; Marcus Samuelsson
• Just Plain Nutz: Bookshop Santa Cruz's Latest Nutty Campaign
• Notes: BAM Sales Off; Oprah Moving OWN
• Selling Sarah and 'Transcending Political Differences'
• Book Review: Knives at Dawn
• Book Brahmin: Mark Siegel
• Hastings Third Quarter: Sales Slip 1.7%, Books Up 0.2%
• Top-Selling Titles in Chicagoland Last Week
• Going Rogue: A Retail Life
• Notes: Canadian Kindle Debuts; Walmart.com CEO Fires Back
• Awards: National Book Awards
• This Weekend on Book TV: It Takes a Pillage
• Media Heat: It's All Too Much, So Get It Together
• Bookshop Backlash: In Search of a 'More Gemütlich Experience'
• Movies: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
• Shelf Sample: The Moon, Come to Earth
• War Drums: B&N Adopts 'Poison Pill' Provision
• AAP: September Sales Jump 12.3%, Up 3.6% for the Year
• Television: Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli Series
• Awards: Man Asian Literary Prize; Governor General's Awards
• Notes: 'Explosive' E-Books; Green Apple's Rogue Charity
• Media Heat: Albom, Atwood, Agassi and More
• Children's Reviews: 'Tis the Season Round-up
• Book Brahmin: Andrea Raynor
• Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Accord: 'Always Brainstorming'
• Innovative Gift Books
• Puzzles: Pocket Posh and More
• Bradley Trevor Greive: Breaking the Mold
• A Full Menu of Cookbooks
• Cartoons: Cornerstone of the Business
• Andrews McMeel: Cartoons, Calendars and Much More
• Book Brahmin: Bradley Trevor Greive
• Bookstore Sales: Sunny September Days
• And the Graveyard Book Halloween Contest Winners Are...
• Notes: Wine, Beer & Books, New Prairie Lights Combo
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Jon Bon Jovi on the Today Show
• Eight Good Reasons to Shop Early, Shop Often
• The Course of Book Love 'Never Did Run Smooth'
• GBO November Pick: New Translation of The Tin Drum
• Movies: Precious Push at Box Office