UK Booksellers Association launches green initiative
The UK Booksellers Association is challenging booksellers to become more environmentally friendly, launching Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers, and the Book industry. Jim Milliot outlines the manifesto… Read more »
Publishers ready to testify at tariff hearings
After weeks of reporting on how the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could affect publishing, Jim Milliot reports for Publishers Weekly that hearings began yesterday in Washington, D.C. with… Read more »
The plot thickens in the bid to buy Barnes & Noble
Early this week, we wrote that “Elliott Management, has purchased the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain for ‘roughly $683 million, including debt,’ according to Lauren Hirsch for CNBC.” Elliott Management, most notably, is… Read more »
Wattpad to launch publishing division
Wattpad, the social story platform where writers upload, expand, and build readership, announced the launch of a publishing division, dubbed Wattpad Books. Beginning this year with six YA titles combed… Read more »
Len Riggio, who has fired four CEOs in five years, denies that instability in corporate leadership has hurt Barnes and Noble
It’s been almost two months since Barnes and Noble fired CEO Demos Parneros. At the time, details on the ouster were scarce, but in late-August, Parneros filed a lawsuit against… Read more »
Presenting… the Barnes and Noble Book Club!
Yesterday, we wrote about what looks like a Barnes-and-Noble-to-Amazon cloning program the country’s beleaguered largest bookselling chain is beginning to implement. Now, as Jim Milliot writes in Publishers Weekly, B&N has announced its plans to stir in… Read more »
Barnes and Noble does its best Amazon impression in turnaround plan
“Fiscal years,” “prototype stores,” and “omnichannel sales.” The presence of these words—somehow mind-numbingly boring and eye-rollingly buzzy at the same time—signals to me, “We’re talking about Amazon here, gang!” Close… but not quite.… Read more »
Barnes & Noble employees show up for their jobs only to learn they now have no jobs
As has been increasingly reported over the last few years, sales at Barnes & Noble are declining and the US’s largest chain bookstore is seemingly in trouble. And the latest… Read more »
Book publishing still has a huge problem with women’s safety in the workplace
Back in October, Rachel Deahl, John Maher, and Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly polled and interviewed women from the book publishing industry about their experiences of sexual assault and harrassment… Read more »
Killing Bill O’Reilly’s writing career
As we reported earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly—serial sexual harasser and the guy who called Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas “the price of freedom”—isn’t selling quite as many books as he… Read more »