Industry News

Simon & Schuster creates Muslim-themed children’s book imprint; We Need Diverse Books opens internship grant applications process, expands partnership with Scholastic Reading Club; Ingram Publisher Services adds Aperture; SIBA presents the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize longlist

The Perseus Books Group and Hachette Book Group announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a binding commitment to sell Perseus’s publishing business to Hachette.

Annie Philbrick, the co-owner of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café, participated in the first-ever U.S. Publishing Mission to Cuba.

Planning has begun for an IndieCommerce Institute to be held in Chicago in May, in conjunction with BEA 2016. The IndieCommerce team is asking all program participants to complete a brief survey that will help the team develop a valuable educational experience.

After a pipe burst at The Drama Book Shop and damaged a good portion of its inventory, Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda encouraged his more than 269,000 Twitter followers to support the store: the result has been record sales and widespread media attention for the store.

To date, 32 children’s and young adult authors are scheduled to meet booksellers and autograph their latest titles at ABA’s fourth ABC Children’s Institute Author Reception. More authors are being added on an ongoing basis.

At the Winter Institute 11 education session “Overall Trends in Book Retailing,” Peter Hildick-Smith of Codex Group and Kristen McLean of Nielsen Book presented their latest data on trends in U.S. book retail.

Preregistration to participate in the fifth anniversary year of Find Waldo Local has been extended for an additional week, to Tuesday, March 8.

Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois, has won the top prize of $3,000 in the Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore sweepstakes from Sourcebooks Landmark.

Here’s an update on revenue distributions, promotions and daily deals, and the results of Kobo’s gift card survey.

Under ABA’s Bylaws, any bookstore member may submit petitions to have the names of additional candidates added to the ballot for the 2016 Board of Directors elections.

ABA will release a New Localism toolkit next week to help booksellers both educate community members and elected officials about the latest relevant data regarding the localism movement and better advocate in support of public policy that promotes vibrant and diverse communities.

Podcasts of PubWest 2016 keynote speakers now available; Ingram Content Group promotes three; Barnes & Noble to open “digitally influenced” bookstore; 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize honorees and finalists announced

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will accept applications for its 2016 higher education scholarship program for booksellers and their dependents through Monday, February 29.

The IndieCommunication newsletter of February 24 presents the results of last week’s survey on web traffic, information about the new IndieCommerce webinar schedule, an introduction to the new “Variable Price” feature, and more.