Rising From the Ashes -- Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers
On October 18, some two months after Koen Book Distributors ended operations, Levy Home Entertainment announced that it had acquired certain Koen assets and would be forming a new business called Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers, LLC. The new entity will be located in the former Koen buildings in Moorestown, New Jersey. Levy Home Entertainment is a book distributor that services retail chain accounts in the 48 continental states. Bob Koen, formerly of Koen Book Distributors, will be the general manager of the new wholesaler.
Books, authors, and literacy will take center stage on network television this Saturday, when 14 NBC Universal Owned and Operated Television Stations broadcast a one-hour Quill Awards television special, hosted by NBC's Al Roker and Jane Hanson. The show will feature the winners of the inaugural Quill Awards, which were announced on October 11 at a ceremony hosted by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams at New York City's Chelsea Piers.
Since March, when the American Booksellers Association announced its partnership with Constant Contact, a leading service provider for the management of e-mail marketing campaigns, a growing number of member bookstores have been taking advantage of Constant Contact's suite of tools that make it easy to create and send compelling e-mail newsletters and announcements, which get immediate and measurable results. 
The 86th annual Children's Book Week, sponsored by the Children's Book Council (CBC), will be celebrated this year from November 14 to November 20. CBC, the nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of books and materials for children and young adults, holds the annual event to celebrate the written word and to introduce young people to new authors and ideas in schools, bookstores, libraries, and homes.