The Newton TAB
helps celebrate the 50th birthday of the New England Mobile Book Fair,
which despite its name has its main business in a very stationary if
unruly storefront in Newton Highlands, Mass. It also has a sister
company, Jessica's Biscuit at ecookbooks.com, which sells cookbooks.
The online business "works well synergistically with the Book Fair,"
COO Steven Gans told the paper. "You have two divisions that can stand
on their own . . . and if one is not doing well, the other can be."
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Bookland is closing its Concord and Keene, N.H., bookstores but the
Paulsen family, which owns Bookland, will continue to operate G.
Paulsen Company, a wholesale book, magazine and newspaper business in
Pembroke, N.H., the Concord Monitor reported. The wholesale business preceded the stores, which were opened in 1967 and the mid 1980s, respectively.
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Barnes & Noble and Borders announced several store openings yesterday:
In September, B&N will open a store in the Dothan Pavilion shopping center at AL
Highway 53 and Murphy Mill Road in Dothan, Ala. In November, the
company will open a store in the Palms Crossing shopping center at 3300 Expressway 83
in McAllen, Tex.
For its part, in April Borders will open a 23,000-sq.-ft. store in the
Arlington Highlands lifestyle center at I-20 and Matlock Rd., in Arlington,
Tex. There are already some 10 Borders and two Waldenbooks stores in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Barnes&Noble.com proudly announced that for the third consecutive year it has received the number one rating in customer satisfaction in the entire e-commerce category of 200 companies, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index conducted by the University of Michigan and ForeSee Results. The rankings are based on an annual survey of more than 65,000 consumers.
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The Southern California Independent Booksellers
Association will hold its 2007 Children's Books & Literacy Dinner
on Friday, March 16, at the Westin Pasadena in Pasadena, Calif. The
event begins with a cocktail reception and bookstore exhibits at 6:30,
followed by dinner and program at 8.
Speakers include:
- Caldecott-winner Brian Selznick, a veteran of the old Eeyore's Books for Children in New York City, whose new book is The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
- Robin Preiss Glasser, who has illustrated many books, including You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and America: A Patriotic Primer by Lynne Cheney.
- James A. Owen, who has written and illustrated two dozen
Starchild comics and the Mythworld series of novels as well as wrote
and illustrated the book Here, There Be Dragons, which is being developed as a feature film by Warner Bros.
For more information, go to SCIBA's Web site.
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Effective immediately, the following two presses are being distributed by National Book Network:
Tatra Press, Suffern, N.Y., which publishes literary fiction and general trade titles.
Norwood House Press, Chicago, Ill., which specializes in team-specific sports books for children.
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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has made the following appointments:
- Elka Villa has been named director of retail and mass marketing, adding mass marketing to her portfolio.
- Julie Christopher has joined the company as associate director of marketing. She formerly handled mass market and trade marketing at HarperCollins Children's Books.
- Lucille Rettino, who has been responsible for marketing SSE and Pulse, will now also market Aladdin books.
- Kelly Stocks has been promoted to marketing coordinator. She has been an assistant in the marketing department for more than a year.
- Grayson Walker, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, has been named sales and sub rights assistant.
- Christine Noh has been named marketing assistant. She formerly worked at the Eric Carle Museum, where she managed the Eric Carle Web site.