Baker & Taylor has acquired Blackwell Book Services North America and James Bennett, the library supplier in Australia. At the same time, Blackwell U.K. has bought B&T's Lindsay and Croft business in the U.K.
In addition, Baker & Taylor's YBP Library Services and Blackwell U.K. are entering a partnership under which YBP Library Services will make available in the U.S. all U.K.-published academic material from Blackwell U.K. and Blackwell U.K. will do the same with U.S.-published academic material from YBP Library Services.
Also, various services such as Blackwell's Table of Contents Catalog Enrichment Service and YBP Library Services's GOBI bibliographic service will be offered to all customers of both companies.
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In a sign of how popular the Swedish mystery series by the late Steig Larsson is, some U.S. bookstores are importing the U.K. edition of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the last book in the trilogy, the New York Times reported. Knopf is publishing the book here next May. [Editor's note: We can attest to the desire to read the last volume as quickly as possible: we bought several copies of the U.K. edition in Frankfurt during the book fair in October for ourselves and friends.]
The stores are selling the trade paperback for as much as $45. (The U.K. version retails for the equivalent of about $15.)
Paul Bogaards of Knopf said, the Times wrote, that the publisher wants "to allow interest to build as more and more readers discovered the first two volumes in the series."
"The sales on Book 1 and Book 2 are so strong that you wouldn't want to add Book 3 to the mix immediately," he continued.
The first book in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has sold 764,000 copies in hardcover and paperback in the U.S., according to Nielsen BookScan. The second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, published in July, has sold 199,000 copies in hardcover.
The Times pointed out that volume two is "the first work in translation to go to No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list in 25 years," the first since The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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Copperfield's Books, which has eight stores in Sonoma and Napa counties in California, is moving its Santa Rosa store in Montgomery Village, the North Bay Business Journal reported.
The 1950 building is being demolished and will be replaced by a restaurant. Copperfield's is moving to a slightly larger space of 11,000 square feet.
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Book trailer of the day: Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate by Jacquette Timmons (Chicago Review Press).