Notes: Store Openings, Sales, Moves; Photo Book PODs
The News-Enterprise offers a profile of the Bookstore, Radcliff, Ky., founded in 1976 by Jerry Brown, who now, happily, owns the building in which the store is located. Brown had imagined "a place where he would sell the works of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and have great discussions about their philosophies and writing styles." Soon he realized that to stay in business, he had to offer what customers wanted. The Bookstore has strong science fiction, mystery, romance and military sections, the last because of the proximity of Fort Knox.
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Borders is active in Austin, Tex. Tomorrow it opens a
27,000-sq.-ft. store at the Domain, a lifestyle center at Mopac Road
and Braker Lane, and closes its store at 10225 Research Boulevard.
Also, the company plans to open a 23,000-sq.-ft. store in May at the
South Park Meadows shopping center at I-35 and Slaughter Lane.
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Today is the grand opening celebration for Mt. Yonah Book Exchange, the
used bookstore in Cleveland, Ga., owned by Myra Meade, who also owns
Hall Book Exchange in Gainesville, Ga., the White County News reported.
Mt. Yonah Book Exchange opened with some drama on February 1. That day a five-inch
snowstorm hit, forcing Meade to abandon her truck on the way to the
store. Only because she was given a ride by a passing stranger was she able to open
as planned.
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Sam
and Cheryl Wyly have closed on the purchase of Explore Booksellers and
Bistro, Aspen, Colo., paying $4.6 million for the business and
building, the Aspen Daily News reported. The estate of the late founder and owner, Katharine Thalberg, had been asking $5.2 million (Shelf Awareness, January 30, 2007).
Sam Wyly has become a significant philanthropist in Aspen, which is the
couple's second home. In Texas, he and his brother have made
several fortunes, and Sam was a major funder of Swift Boating campaigns
directed at both John McCain and John Kerry.
The paper wrote that "the Wylys have said they don't intend to change the bookstore they love."
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Lightning Source, Ingram's POD book manufacturing and distribution company, is now providing POD versions of photo books (known in earlier incarnations as photo albums) "in a variety of book formats and sizes, including perfect bound paperback and sewn case bound books." Lightning Source estimated that the photo book market is expected to grow to more than $1 billion by 2010.
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Effective March 12, Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, San Francisco, Calif., publisher of Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man, Eat That Frog! and Leadership and Self-Deception,
among other titles, will be distributed by Ingram Publisher Services.
Berrett-Koehler was formerly distributed by PGW and was one of
PGW's top 10 publishers.
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Speakers at BookExpo America special events, including
the breakfasts, will feature, among others, Alan Alda, Ken Burns, Paulo
Coelho, Stephen Colbert, Khaled Hosseini, Paul Krugman, Ian McEwan,
Rosie O'Donnell, Alice Sebold, Lisa See, Russell Simmons and Muhammad Yunus, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner.
"Unlike last year, when politics provided a theme for much of our
programming, this year we are celebrating the writer and the book,"
event director Lance Fensterman said in a statement. "This group of
authors is as strong as any in recent memory at BEA and I'm
exceptionally proud to present them to our audience of book lovers."
For more information about BEA, go to the show's Web site.
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