Above the Treeline

29 Oct

Treeline Tips and Tricks: Connecting With Publishers

Joe Foster, Edelweiss/Treeline education and outreach coordinator, explains how booksellers can ensure they’re not missing out on crucial titles by choosing to allow publisher sales reps access to their Treeline data to look for gaps in the store’s inventory.

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01 Oct

BTW News Briefs

SBA offers EMV card webinar; Schumacher wins Thurber Prize; We Need Diverse Books to present first Walter Dean Myers Award; 23 publishers sign deals with IPG; National Book Foundation announces 2015 “5 under 35” honorees; 2015 Kirkus Prize finalists announced; NetGalley introduces “Wish Granting”; Edelweiss partners with DOGObooks; HarperCollins forms HarperCollins Italia 

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21 Sep

Treeline Tips and Tricks: Crowdsourcing Your Frontlist Buying

Joe Foster, Edelweiss/Treeline education and outreach coordinator, shows booksellers how to avoid missing a big drop-in title by using Treeline Analytics to find those titles other booksellers are buying the most.

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26 Aug

Treeline Tips and Tricks: Low Turns vs. High Turns, a Short Case Study

Joe Foster, Edelweiss/Treeline education and outreach coordinator, offers a case study showing two stores of basically equal size but with significantly different sales and turn levels.

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27 Jul

Treeline Analytics Tips and Tricks: Some Stats for Your Consideration

Edelweiss/Treeline Education and Outreach Coordinator Joe Foster offers an aggregation of Treeline data to help booksellers figure out how their  inventory turns break down compared to other stores in their region.

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17 Jun

Treeline Analytics Tips and Tricks: Treeline and Edelweiss Collections

Edelweiss/Treeline Education and Outreach Coordinator Joe Foster provides a quick tip to help booksellers add individual titles or lists of titles from Treeline Analytics to a Collection in Edelweiss.

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28 Apr

Treeline Analytics Tips and Tricks: Quick Health Exam

Edelweiss/Treeline Education and Outreach Coordinator Joe Foster demonstrates how booksellers can quickly get a feel for what is happening with their inventory by looking at three Treeline screens: Market Top Sellers, Trends, and the In-Stock Bar Chart.

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23 Mar

Treeline Analytics Tips & Tricks: Prioritize on Metrics

In the first of a new monthly column offering best practices for making the most of the wealth of tools provided by Treeline Analytics, Joe Foster shows booksellers a few tips for using the Prioritize on Metrics graph.

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22 May

Edelweiss Makes It Easier for ABA Members to Access Digital Review Copies

A new feature from Above the Treeline/Edelweiss makes it easier for ABA member booksellers to receive publishers’ Digital Review Copies.

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22 Oct

Edelweiss Best Practices for Buyers

Here is a list of Edelweiss best practices for book buyers, complied by Robert Sindelar of Third Place Books and annotated with links by Above the Treeline’s Joe Foster.

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24 Jul

Edelweiss Offers New Option for Indie Next List Nominations

Booksellers can now submit their nominations to the Indie Next List by entering reviews directly into Edelweiss. The process is simple and allows for maximum exposure of reviews.

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23 May

Edelweiss Now Lets Users Share Reviews With Friends

This week, Edelweiss unveiled new functionality that allows registered users to connect with friends and colleagues who have an Edelweiss account in a peer-to-peer network within the site. Currently, the new functionality enables users to share reviews, but Edelweiss expects to add more features in the near future.

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08 Sep

Random House Catalogs to Go Paperless

Random House Children’s and Random House Adult catalogs will be going digital only, beginning with their Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 lists, respectively. The change ensures the catalog information will be “more up-to-the-minute, and thus more viable, practical, and useful,” said Ruth Liebmann, vice president, director, account marketing, Random House, Inc.

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02 Jun

BTW News Briefs

Edelweiss adds Indie Next List icons; Lambda and MPIBA award winners announced; Random House Kids launches paperback imprints; SBA introduces mobile app for small business owners

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17 May

Edelweiss to Host Programs for Publishers, Booksellers at BEA

Staff from Edelweiss, Above the Treeline’s interactive publisher catalog system, will offer two sessions aimed at publishers, and one for booksellers, sales reps, and other users of the product, during next week’s BEA.

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