Wi3 Booked to Capacity -- Waiting Lists Forming Booksellers Win Big

October 18, 2007 with the Louisville Marriott Downtown, ABA is requesting TABLE OF CONTENTS: booksellers notify the association of their desire to cancel so their • Wi3 Booked to Capacity -- Waiting Lists rooms will remain in the Wi3 block and can be assigned to another bookseller. Forming ...... 1 • Booksellers Win Big at NAIBA Fall Conference Booksellers registered for the education program who have not yet reserved a room at the Louisville Marriott Downtown should ...... 1 contact Nafz to have their names put on a waiting list. In the • Nine New Booksellers Open in September ...... 2 meantime, ABA suggests booking a room at another hotel as a back • Literary and Garden Arts Shop Takes Root in up. If rooms at the event hotel become available, ABA will notify Berkeley ...... 3 booksellers in order of their position on the list. A number of hotels 5 are within blocks of the Louisville Marriott Downtown. (ABA • BTW News Briefs ...... 3 reminds booksellers to read the hotel's cancellation policy carefully • ABA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline before booking a room. No special rates have been negotiated with Approaches ...... 4 these hotels.) • Cause to Celebrate: Children's Book Week & Questions about the Winter Institute program should be addressed Jewish Book Month ...... 4 to ABA Education Director Len Vlahos at [email protected] 6 ; • NCIBA Show Earns Positive Reviews ...... 5 questions about registration should be addressed to Nafz 7 . • Take This Book and Shelve It: Confronting the Category Ghetto ...... 7 Booksellers Win Big at NAIBA Fall • Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize ...... 8 Conference • WNBA Seeks Outstanding Children's October 18, 2007 -- By Kelley Drahushuk of Spotty Dog Books Booksellers ...... 8 & Ale in Hudson, New York • Bookstore Sales Up Again in August ...... 8 Fall means several things. For many it means sports -- baseball playoffs, the start of football season. For booksellers and publishers, it means regional trade shows. And to Chester County BOOK SENSE THIS WEEK Book Company's Joe Drabyak, president of the New Atlantic • Books & Books: 25 Years of Making a Independent Booksellers Association, it means both. Difference ...... 8 In his opening address at last weekend's revamped NAIBA fall event, Joe compared an independent store to a sports team and MARKETPLACE discussed how a store might come to be a "winning team," with publishers, sales reps, the American Booksellers Association, • Classifieds ...... 9 NAIBA, store owners and staff all working towards a common • Other Advertising ...... 10 goal. And with a rousing, "Let's get out there and win big today!" the NAIBA conference was in full swing. Speaking of becoming the winning team, the focus of this year's Wi3 Booked to Capacity -- Waiting Lists show was to give booksellers a more concrete idea of how to sell the books publishers have to offer, with suggestions for displays, Forming tie-ins, and events. The publishers did not disappoint with their October 18, 2007 -- 1 Event and hotel registrations for the Adult Pick of the Lists, sprinkling in sales and marketing ideas American Booksellers Association's Third Annual Winter Institute during their presentations. 2 (Wi3) are currently booked to capacity. Wi3, in Louisville, Then booksellers talked about what they're reading, which is Kentucky, from Thursday, January 24, through Sunday, January always an interesting mix. McNally Robinson's Jessica Stockton, 27, 2008, is open exclusively to the owners and staff of ABA famed Written Nerd 8 blogger, recommended Arrival (Arthur A. member bookstores and capped at 500 registrants. Booksellers who 3 Levine), a wordless graphic novel by Shaun Tan with resonance to register for the ABA education program now are being put on a any immigrant experience. Susan Weiss of Breathe Books waiting list. As cancellations are received, spaces will be filled described a great impulse buy to have by the register, Porn for from the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Women -- a humor book filled with pictures of men cleaning ABA is asking registered booksellers who are no longer planning to (Cambridge Women's Pornography Co-op, Chronicle Books). A attend the Winter Institute to contact Program Assistant Margaret bookseller from Robin's Bookstore described an amazing Nafz at [email protected] 4 as soon as possible to cancel both appearance by Cathy Wilkerson promoting her biography Flying their event and hotel reservations, so that waiting booksellers can Close to the Sun (Seven Stories), in which she discusses her time fill their places. Although hotel reservations were made directly trying to foment revolution in the Weather Underground. A

© 2007 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 1 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK October 18, 2007 member of my own staff has called the book "life changing." Ah, yes -- the show floor. After a much needed good-night's sleep, I joined my favorite local author Barbara Lehman at her Moveable I was able to get down to the business of shopping, schmoozing, Feast table for lunch. Her books, including the newest, Rainstorm and seeing what's hot. Some guidance was given during the (Houghton Mifflin), are favorite handsells of mine. I also had the morning Independent Rep Picks over breakfast. I ordered a display chance to meet two other authors of cool books at my table. Roland of Boku Books, cute little tree-free journals that can be folded over Merullo, author of Breakfast With Buddah (Algonquin), described due to perfect-bound spines (highly recommended by both the sales his travels that formed the basis of the book. Check out the scene rep and my table mates). with the loon -- that was based on a real incident, which he loved This year, it seemed as if there were more authors available on the most about his trek. If you are a child of the '70s like me, or just floor signing books. Two titles I'm looking forward to after meeting wish you were, you'll love The Great Funk by Thomas Hine (FSG), the authors: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (Twelve) and full of great photos and remembrances of that polyester-bright, Open Me by Sunshine O'Donnell (MacAdam/Cage) (mentioned by disco-infused era. Imagine the fun displays to build around that! several booksellers as an upcoming favorite). The education sessions in the afternoon were as valuable as ever. I On my way home, exhausted but inspired, I found myself stuck in a attended the ABA session "Staff Development" with hopes of giant traffic jam, one so large and unmoving that I put my car in continued staff nirvana. I was reminded that I play way too fast and park. Luckily, I had plenty of books to keep me occupied. You loose with my hiring and employment practices and now know how have to fit it in when you can. to tighten things up. The best tips included using a "scoop book" where all important store info can be recorded and checked daily, making your store manual a Wiki, creating a board of directors to get feedback on overall store success and owner performance, and having potential employees submit a letter outlining why they would want to work for your store instead of filling out a generic Booksellers who stopped by the ABA booth at any one of this season's trade shows are eligible to enter drawings for prizes, courtesy of ABA and application. BookExpo America. At NAIBA, Mindy Ostrow of The River's End Since my store is small, narrow, and space-challenged, I thought Bookstore in Oswego, New York, won a color inkjet printer, courtesy of "Making the Most of Floor Space" would be the seminar for me. ABA, and Lynn Gonchar of The Tudor Bookshop & Cafe in Kingston, Pennsylvania, won an iPod, courtesy of BEA. The most useful suggestion amongst the many that Adjua Greaves from the beautiful McNally Robinson Booksellers presented was assigning section managers charged with keeping displays in their Both winners, along with other booksellers who dropped off their business section fresh, coming up with new ideas, rotating face-outs and cards at the ABA booth, will be included in drawings taking place at the pulling stock that needs to be returned. I also like the description of end of October, at the conclusion of the trade show season: for displays as "attractive, attended, and abundant." accommodations at Hotel ABA at BEA 2008 in Los Angeles, courtesy of BEA; for hotel accommodations at the Third Annual Winter Institute in Unfortunately, running at the same time was the ABA seminar on Louisville in January, courtesy of BEA; and for one of 24 "How to be the Story." I put divide and conquer into practice and publisher-sponsored scholarships, including reasonable transportation asked Roy Solomon from The Village Bookstore (in Pleasantville, costs and up to a three-night hotel stay at the Winter Institute. New York) to fill me in later. Good ideas included hiring a high-school kid to work on your press contacts (they don't know Nine New Booksellers Open in that it's sometimes a hard thing) and to convert your press kit to digital or PDF format (an example in PDF format 9 can be found on September ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org). October 18, 2007 -- The American Booksellers Association Unwinding at the NAIBA Awards Dinner, it was pleasure to hear welcomed nine new booksellers who opened for business last the two authors who came to accept their honors. Michelle month. September openings included two stores specializing in Knudsen, author of Picture Book of the Year winner Library Lion Mind/Body/Spirit (Blue Lotus Treasures, LLC and East West (Walker), said that she was able to stay calm during her speech Exchange Books, Gift and Practices); a store specializing in LGBT because she was, "just getting up to say 'thank you' to friends," titles and offering coffee, videos, and art showings (Five15 Media, which she did quite eloquently. Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Mojo & More); another specializing in ethnic Poetry (Rebecca's); a Way Gone (FSG) and winner of Nonfiction Book of the Year, said bookstore in La Paz, Mexico (Allende Books); and one business he wrote the book despite his fears that people "might be afraid to selling books solely via the Internet, mail order, or on-site (Read read it," because his people have a strong oral tradition, believing About Me! Personalized Children's Books). that when you relate a story, it becomes everyone's story. He hopes his story will bring cultures closer through understanding. Blue Lotus Treasures, LLC Read About Me! Personalized Out of 287 submissions for the Dashiell Hammett Award for 314 Carroll St. NW Children's Books Washington, DC 20012 P.O. Box 842365 literary excellence in the field of crime writing, given by the (202) 291-3003 Houston, TX 77284 International Association of Crime Writers, somehow the judges www.bluelotustreasures.com 10 (713) 870-6170 narrowed the field to five. Worthy suspense writers all, but the www.readaboutmechildrensbooks.com ultimate victor announced at the dinner was Dan Fesperman, author Allende Books of The Prisoner of Guantanamo (Vintage). All of the finalists and a Allende 169 E/Madero y Revolution 13 (Not a storefront) host of other mystery writers signed books and socialized in the Co. Centro Rebecca's appropriately named Noir Bar, which I think I may adopt at my La Paz, Baja California Sur 3268 Adeline St. own store (seeing as I have a bar already). Penguin will make my Mexico 23000 Berkeley, CA 94703 job easier, as they featured a Mysteries Around the World brochure (707) 320-0558 (323) 855-9477 and display mock-up on the show floor.

East West Exchange Books, Gifts and Sierra Madre Books Summer-Dry Climates of the San Francisco Bay Region . Leyhe Practices 18 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Ste A told BTW that more than 400 copies have been sold so far. Local 2051 W. Warner Rd. Sierra Madre, CA 91024 author Michael Pollan ( The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany Chandler, AZ 85224 (626) 836-3200 of Desire ) has drawn the store's largest crowd yet for a reading. (480) 855-6010 www.sierramadrebooks.com 14 www.ew-exchange.com 11 Among Mrs. Dalloway's large architecture section is a subcategory Wind City Books of books on "sustainable architecture." The store itself exemplifies Five15 Media, Mojo & More 152 S. Center St. eco-friendly building, thanks to Leyhe's husband, a builder eager to 515 S. Washington Ave. Casper, WY 82601 Royal Oak, MI 48067 (307) 315-6003 try a renovation using all "green" materials. These include shelves (248) 515-2551 made of recycled materials, a sea grass rug, and environmentally www.five15.net 12 friendly paint.

Prairie Moon Books After a "rocky start for the first 18 months," Leyhe said, "business 916 3rd Ave. is definitely growing -- our sales are up by 30 percent over last Sheldon, IA 51201 year. Marion and I complement each other well; we work very hard (712) 324-3624 and we make adjustments." She signed off cheerfully, "We've done it -- we have a business." -- Nomi Schwartz 17 Literary and Garden Arts Shop Takes Root in Berkeley BTW News Briefs October 18, 2007 -- October 18, 2007 -- The opening words of Virginia Woolf's 1925 classic novel, Mrs. Dalloway , are inscribed on a wall in the Subterranean Books Wins "Best Book Store" Accolade three-year-old bookstore and garden shop founded by Marion Abbott and Ann Leyhe in Berkeley, California. The line -- "Mrs. Seven-year-old Subterranean Books was named "Best Book Store" Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself" -- depicts the 15 in St. Louis in The Riverfront Times ' "Best of St. Louis" listings. blending of the literary and garden arts in Mrs. Dalloway's , a Subterranean Books has received the honor in six of the seven 2,000-square-foot store, which is profiled in October's issue of years it has been in business. More Magazine 16 . October also marks Mrs. Dalloway's third anniversary, which will be celebrated with a sale and a month From the RFT: 18 "The shelves hold the best new titles culled from loaded with events. the reams of publishing dreck, the older titles you must read before you die ... and stuff from the counterculture, subculture, and high Abbott and Leyhe brought to the business many years of friendship culture you won't find anywhere else. And now that Subterranean and experience in different arenas: Abbott, whose career in trade has opened a mezzanine on either side of the store, it's supporting book publishing included stints at Sierra Club Books, Little, local artists and artisans. The west mezzanine functions as a gallery Brown, and Knopf, was a longtime writer and editor with expertise -- for example, this summer saw a show of original panels by in marketing and publicity; Leyhe had been the photo editor for graphic-novel artist Matt Kindt -- the east as a sort of consignment Horticulture Magazine and a photo researcher and stylist for Sunset shop for locally produced artwork, fashion, crafts, and more." Garden books and Chronicle Books' garden series. An authority on all aspects of gardening, she guided a tour of secret gardens of Oakland's East Bay for over a decade. Quills Literacy Foundation Auction to Benefit First Book

Both women attended the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course The Quills Literacy Foundation, in partnership with NBC Universal in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1975, where they Television Stations and Borders, will be auctioning a selection of first met. autographed 2007 Quill Award winner and nominee titles, plus Abbott's desire to open a general bookstore dovetailed neatly with other notable books, to raise funds for First Book, a nonprofit Leyhe's interest in opening a specialty gardening store. organization with a single mission: to give children from Understanding that combining the two stores would greatly low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new enhance the possibilities for success, they financed the store with a books. mix of their own savings and contributions from a group of 10 The money raised in the NBC Owned & Operated markets auction investors. will be contributed to First Book to provide new books for children Alongside a robust selection of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, who otherwise might not experience the joy of owning them. Bids art, and architecture, Mrs. Dalloway's sells and displays works of can be placed starting October 22 at www.thequills.org 19 . The original art; paintings, photography, weavings, and sculpture auction will end at midnight on October 31, 2007. inspired by gardens; a collection of 19th-century European botanical and insect prints; and cards with nature themes. Many Consumers to Take Conservative Approach to Holiday small plants and decorative pots are also for sale. Shopping "We are not a nursery," Leyhe told BTW . "We don't have the space According to the National Retail Federation, though shoppers still to offer large plants, and since this is a residential, urban plan to spend more on the holidays this year than last, their neighborhood and people often walk here, they can't carry home spending will be a bit restrained this holiday season. According to big bags of mulch and fertilizer. About 20 percent of our space is NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, devoted to garden-related merchandise." conducted by BIGresearch, U.S. consumers plan to spend an Mrs. Dalloway's also features an extensive selection of gardening average of $816.69 on holiday-related shopping. In addition, these books. The store's all-time bestseller is Plants and Landscapes for shoppers will spend an additional $106.67 on special "non-gift"

© 2007 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 3 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK October 18, 2007 purchases by taking advantage of special promotions and discounts A board candidate must be an ABA member who is the owner or to treat themselves. This brings total planned holiday-related employee of an independent bookstore with a storefront location spending to $923.36, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2006 and in that is operated according to sound business principles. In addition, line with NRF's economic forecast of 4.0 percent. a candidate must have at least three years of recent experience as an While the traditional kickoff to the holiday season is Black Friday, owner or employee of a member company. It is desirable that NRF noted that most people won't wait to begin bargain hunting. nominees have at least two years of experience as an active This year, 40.3 percent of shoppers will begin holiday shopping volunteer in ABA or in a regional association or other constituency before Halloween. The Internet will once again play a crucial role organization, or possess similar experience. Complete qualifications are outlined in the "ABA Nomination and Election for retailers this holiday season as consumers, on average, plan to 23 do 30.2 percent of their shopping online compared to 28.9 percent Guidelines ." in 2006. Under ABA's bylaws 24 , the terms of three members of the There will be plenty of popular items on consumer wish lists this nine-member board expire each year, and at least one of the three holiday season, but the most sought-after category appears to be the nominated candidates cannot have served on the current board. most practical: gift cards. This year, more than half (53.8%) of Board members are eligible to be elected for two three-year terms. consumers want to receive a gift card or gift certificate as a holiday Nominations should be sent to the attention of Beth Puffer, Chair, gift, though they won't be the only item on shoppers' wish lists. ABA Nominating Committee. A nomination form may be Consumers also want everything from clothing and accessories downloaded in PDF format 25 and mailed to Puffer at Bank Street (50.1%) to books, CDs, DVDs, videos and video games (50.8%). Bookstore, 610 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025; or it may be faxed to (212) 316-7026. Nominations may also be sent via an 26 Reading Group Choices Releases Latest Book Group Guide electronic nomination form . Both are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org 27 . Reading Group Choices, a developer of resources to enhance reading group experiences, has announced the publication of The Nominating Committee requests that as much information as Reading Group Choices 2008 . The guide, in its 14th edition, possible be provided about candidates; all information will be kept includes over 60 new titles for recommended reading and book confidential. group discussion from publishers including Penguin, Random House, and Unbridled Books. Titles by such reading group favorite Cause to Celebrate: Children's Book authors as Chris Bohjalian, Tracy Chevalier, Elinor Lipman, and Week & Jewish Book Month Sena Jeter Naslund, as well as work from debut authors have been selected for inclusion in Reading Group Choices 2008 . October 17, 2007 -- November marks two important events for booksellers and readers: Children's Book Week 2007, sponsored by This year's collection of Reading Group Choices has been released the Children's Book Council, and Jewish Book Month, sponsored in the same month as the launch of National Reading Group Month by the Jewish Book Council. (NRGM) and will be distributed at the kick-off event in New York on October 29. NRGM is being launched in honor of the 90th Children's Book Week , this year from November 12 to 18, is anniversary of the founding of the Women's National Book celebrating its 88th year with the theme "Rise Up Reading!" to Association. For Reading Group Choices ordering information, see reflect reading as a vibrant, participatory activity. CBC is www.readinggroupchoices.com 20 . encouraging communities to explore ways to interest young people in the written word for future success, academically and in the workplace, and for lifelong enjoyment. Rowling Continues Short U.S. Book Tour To help bookstores and libraries promote Children's Book Week, Following an appearance at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on CBC has created a variety of materials for publicity and display Monday, October 15, J.K. Rowling will continue her U.S. "Open purposes that can be purchased via www.cbcbooks.org 28 . This Book Tour" with visits in New Orleans on Thursday and then in year's official Children's Book Week poster features an illustration New York City on Friday. At Monday's event, before 1,600 by Edward Koren, and other promotional materials include students from various Los Angeles schools, Rowling read from contributions by Jon J Muth, Ana Juan, Peter Reynolds, Stephen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while seated on a "gold 21 Savage, and Jim Ishikawa. CBC also offers a number of free, throne with plush red cushions," the Associated Press reported. downloadable materials, including activity and book lists. The author also fielded 12 "preselected questions from the dressed-up and dazzled kids and teens." The 1,600 students each CBC's celebration ideas for booksellers include: received a signed copy of the book. • Hold a children's event each day of Children's Book Week • Host a children's book author or illustrator • Hold a Children's Book Week Party and Costumer Contest ABA Board of Directors Nomination • Offer special discounts during the week Deadline Approaches Beginning next year, CBC is changing the timing of Children's Book Week. The 89th annual celebration will be held May 12 October 18, 2007 -- The American Booksellers Association's through 18, 2008, and subsequent celebrations will held during one Nominating Committee, chaired by Beth Puffer of Bank Street of the first two weeks of May. Bookstore in New York City, is searching for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors 22 . Any ABA member may Jewish Book Month , an annual event on the American Jewish submit nominations for board directors. calendar, is observed during the month preceding the celebration of Hanukkah. This year's Jewish Book Month celebration runs from Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible but no later November 16 through December 16. than November 9, 2007.

The Jewish Book Council offers a Jewish Book Month kit, Judy Wheeler of Towne Center Books in Pleasanton, California. "I including two eye-catching posters and bookmarks featuring titles just thought that she was practical in what she offered and really for children and adults, for sale via its website, good." 29 www.jewishbookcouncil.org/ . The Council also offers advice on "[Klassen] had some really good ideas," Fishburn seconded. "It was exhibits, book fairs, book clubs, author speaking tours and literary very informative." programs. Also on Friday was the panel "The New Environmentalism." The NCIBA Show Earns Positive Reviews discussion, moderated by ABA COO Oren Teicher, featured panelists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, managing October 17, 2007 -- 30 Attendance at this year's Northern California directors of American Environics, a social values research and Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) Trade Show was political strategy firm, and authors of Break Through: From the up, and booksellers who spoke to BTW dubbed it a terrific success. Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Houghton The show was held from Friday, October 5, through Sunday, Mifflin); Congressman Jay Inslee, (D-WA), co-author of Apollo's October 7, at the Oakland Convention Center and Oakland City Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy (Island Press); and Center Marriott. Ellis Jones, sociology professor at UC Davis and author of The Among the highlights were the Saturday Author Reception, the Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Saturday and Sunday Author Breakfasts, and Friday's Education Difference (New Society Publishers). Day. NCIBA offered the session to help booksellers respond to growing NCIBA Executive Director Hut Landon told BTW that he was very public interest in finding new ways to protect the environment. pleased with this year's show, which had significantly higher "Because Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has helped to spur sales attendance on Sunday, compared to last year. "It was still slower and get customers interested in the subject, we thought it could be than Saturday, but we had much better traffic than [Sunday] last useful to booksellers to provide education in this area," explained year," he said. "We e-mailed our booksellers prior to the show, and Landon. we urged them to bring as many staff people as they could manage In a change from previous years, roundtable discussions at the this year." Noting that many publishers are reevaluating their show were organized by region, rather than subject matter. The participation in regional trade shows, Landon said, "We felt it was new format was adopted to allow booksellers from the same area to important to have a good turnout this year." get to know each other better and perhaps plan regional projects or "I thought the show went very well," said NCIBA President Nick activities. "People had conversations about area activities, like bus Setka of Book Passage in Corte Madera. "The education day on tours, Shop Local campaigns," Landon reported. "Booksellers Friday was very well attended. We had our general membership continue to tell us that they want an organized opportunity to talk to meeting on Friday, and there were a lot of booksellers there -- I'd other booksellers." Towne Center's Wheeler told BTW that the guess the attendance at the General Meeting was more than double roundtables are "always great for idea sharing." this year than years' past. That was great.... I can't recall a show as In another key change at this year's show, the Moveable Feast was vibrant as this one for a long time." replaced by an Author Reception, styled after the popular event at John Evans of Deisel, A Bookstore, which has a store in Oakland ABA's Winter Institute last year in Portland. NCIBA's reception and in Malibu, said, "The size and scale and friendliness of the featured 18 authors who signed copies of their books or galleys and show felt very comfortable. The show seemed more dynamic." mingled with booksellers. Describing the reception as a "fun" event, Wheeler said that she appreciated the opportunity to meet Random House caused a stir this year when it decided against authors whose books she is looking forward to reading. having a booth on NCIBA's trade show floor. The publisher participated in other aspects of the trade show, but it opted to hold The Saturday and Sunday Author Breakfasts had higher than usual meetings in a hotel meeting room instead of being on the trade attendance, said Landon. show floor. "We respected Random House's decision to try The Saturday Author Breakfast featured Michael Krasny ( Off Mike something different at our show," Landon said. "We know that they , Stanford University Press), John Dean ( Broken Government: were missed on the floor and are hoping that, in the future, we can How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and find a way together to fulfill Random House's needs at the show Judicial Branches, Viking), and Alice Sebold ( The Almost Moon , without sacrificing a presence on the trade show floor." Little Brown). "It was fantastic, and I'm not even a morning The show's Friday educational panels and workshops earned rave person," said Diesel's Evans. reviews from attendees who spoke to BTW . The Sunday Children's Author Breakfast featured Alice Walker ( Traci Fishburn of Bookworks in Aptos, California, attended the Why War Is Never a Good Idea , HarperCollins), Michael Hoeye ( ABA session "Improve Efficiency to Achieve Success," which was Time to Smell the Roses: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure, Putnam), presented by Dan Cullen, ABA Information director and and Scott Westerfeld ( Extras , Simon Pulse). editor-in-chief of the Book Sense Picks. Intended for owners and "Both days were great," said Wheeler. senior staff of bookstores of all sizes, this seminar focused on how Several NCIBA member booksellers were honored with awards at booksellers can use their time more effectively, make their staff this year's show. The award for "Outstanding Handselling" went to more productive, and implement efficiencies throughout the store. Kevin Hunsanger of Green Apple Books in San Francisco, for "That was great," Fishburn said of the seminar. "My business selling more than 2,000 copies of You Can't Win by Jack Black partner and I were very fired up afterwards." over a five-year period; and to Clay Banes, Pegasus Books The NCIBA session "The Fine Art of Store Display," led by Claire Downtown, Berkeley, for creating, in the words of the store owner, Klassen, display manager for BookPeople in Austin, Texas, also a "poetry section to be reckoned with" and promoting it with, earned great reviews from attendees. "[Klassen] was great," said among other things, author events and a dedicated blog.

The "Outstanding Bookstore Event" went to Kepler's weekly Go that bookstores have an important curatorial role. Yes, that's a nice way to Green Summer Series, which explored ways to improve the describe it. Paul followed up with "There is this customer who keeps coming environment, to create a healthier community, and to have fun in to our store and asking why we don't carry Ayn Rand's books. Why not? Well, they are just terribly written." Full disclosure -- Ayn Rand is one of my the process. The award was presented to the Kepler's coordinator favorite writers. for the series, Kristi Breisch.

The "Debi Echlin Memorial Award for Community Bookselling" 2. Don't keep your e-mails in your inbox: Dan Cullen of ABA gave a went to Rakestraw Books in Danville and Michael Barnard, the 90-minute talk on "Improving Efficiency to Achieve Success." I judge store's owner. trainers against a high standard. Dan gets an A for being highly energized, like the Energizer Bunny, and a B for being funny and entertaining -- his talk At the ABA booth at the show, booksellers who dropped off a was packed with cartoons, jokes, personal stories about root canals and business card were entered in drawings for prizes, courtesy of ABA campaign calling, and buzz words like pile-itis (habit of creating piles of and BookExpo America. Traci Fishburn of Bookwords won an papers) and cranial data dumps. He also gets a B for condensing, synthesizing, and sharing the learnings from many resources and pointing the iPod, courtesy of BEA, and Kathleen Caldwell of A Great Book audience to many other resources, books, and articles by efficiency gurus like Place for Books in Oakland won a color inkjet printer, courtesy of Stephen Covey, Julia Morgenstern, and David Allen. I give him a C (sorry ABA. Dan!) for providing solid actionable insights that booksellers can use to become more efficient. Good training has to be simple but provocative. It Both winners, and all of the other booksellers who dropped off should make you see your business in a new light and make you think. business cards at the ABA booth at any of this fall's regional Training is fundamentally about changing human behavior for the better. I shows, will be included in drawings taking place at the end of wondered if people were taking away anything from this class that they October, at the conclusion of the trade show season. Prizes include would be able to use or was it mostly a refresher on generally accepted accommodations at Hotel ABA at BEA 2008 in Los Angeles, wisdom that is good to know but hard to do. Christopher Stroth, a fellow bookseller from HickleBee's in Willow Glen, summarized it for me: "This courtesy of BEA; hotel accommodations at the Third Annual session was like trying to quit smoking. It's one thing to know what to do, but Winter Institute in Louisville in January, courtesy of BEA; and 24 to be able to make the decisions and choices to change behavior -- that's the publisher-sponsored scholarships, including reasonable hard part." Best part of the training -- after bashing e-mails as reactive, transportation costs and up to a three-night hotel stay at the Winter time-wasting drains and offering lots of advice on how to deal with e-mails, Institute. Dan offered to send everyone more e-mails with efficiency-related documents and resources. Fishburn summed up the NCIBA trade show experience: "I thought it was a great show. It was the first time I went for all three days, 3. What's your core competence? Amy Sandberg of Co-optimize delivered 31 and I'm really glad I did." --David Grogan a useful and focused presentation on co-op. I love co-op because it represents money in the bank. I hate co-op because publishers make it nightmarishly complex and not worth the hassle. Amy convinced me she understands co-op. She also convinced me I shouldn't try to understand co-op. God bless Amy! I hired her to do the co-op for Booksmith. I have preached to my business A First-Timer's Impressions of the NCIBA Trade Show clients for decades -- focus on what you do best, and outsource the rest. C.K. Prahalad called it core competence and made millions from selling the concept. Time to practice what I preach. I am outsourcing my co-op program. By Praveen Madan, Co-Owner of The Booksmith in San Francisco Don't you dare call her right now, she has to finish helping me catch up with my messy negotiations with Hachette before she can take on more new clients. I have long believed that every writer is biased with their own unique worldview -- a complicated and highly personalized lens through which we all interpret the world around us and try to make sense of it. Our background, 4. Merchandising matters! Claire Klassen from BookPeople in Austin, beliefs, values, outlooks all shape this worldview lens we carry with us. Texas, gave a presentation on store displays. She wowed the audience with Wouldn't it be wonderful if every writer disclosed their worldview so the pictures of her colorful, topical displays and stories of how she Googled readers know exactly and explicitly how the writer is distorting reality! So, around to find the right image and stuck it against a glass pane so she could with that context, I feel I must first tell you what I can of my own worldview use it to create a handcrafted poster. The more hands-on oriented folks and hopefully this will help you put some context around what I have to say learned about the type of foam core to use and where to buy it. She clearly about the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade loves her job. I just want to hire her or someone like her. show this past weekend. I am an unusual bookseller -- trained first as an engineer and then as an MBA, I spent nearly two decades working as a management consultant for large corporations. I am trained to find problems. 5. Overheard on the trade show floor: The sales rep at one Ask me about my impressions for any situation, and I will give you a list of not-to-be-named large publisher talking to another in their booth -- "I guess things that are wrong with it and how to make it better. I can't help it -- that's all the bottom feeders are gone." Was this a reference to booksellers on the who I am. And publishing and bookselling is one really broken industry. I am prowl for galleys? Hmm! also a huge optimist -- always hoping and dreaming things can and will get better. 6. Audience pays for advertising: I couldn't believe we had to pay $20 for a $4 sandwich for lunch while we were subjected to a dozen sales reps pitching Now, I share with you eight impressions of the NCIBA trade show this past their favorite books for the season. That's called advertising and normally the weekend. It was the first time I went to NCIBA's annual trade show. We will advertiser pays. I never heard of the audience paying to listen to start with the educational programming on Friday and go on from there to advertisements. Well, I was one of those who paid 20 bucks. Note to self -- other more varied parts of the trade show. The impressions I share are a mix skip this session next year. It's better when the sales rep calls on you at the of things that provoked me, things I hope will provoke you, actions I took, store, and they even buy lunch! thoughts that crossed my mind, etc. I picked these because they are what I remember the most. Treat it as a box of chocolates -- every piece is a little different. 7. Why independents matter? Random House held a series of focus groups with independent booksellers in a meeting room at the trade show hotel. (The publisher did not have a traditional booth on the floor this year.) We met Paul 1. Bookstores as political statements: The show opened with a conversation Kozlowski, Ruth Liebmann, and their team in one such focus group. As the between Nick Setka, president of NCIBA, and Paul Yamazaki, manager of caffeine kicked in I couldn't help but ask Paul why they bother with the world famous City Lights books. I only caught the second half of the independents at all. Isn't it easier for them to send sales reps to the chains and conversation but one particular comment that stuck me was Paul's assertion in a few meetings have their books in a couple thousand stores. To achieve

the same result with independents, they will have to deal with 2,000 separate Shelving and the problem of how do I talk to a reader who likes buyers. Sounds messy, complex, and costly! So why bother with the good, meaty writing that has fantasy elements.... I have a shelf of independents? Paul's answer was, it's important to Random House to have speculative fiction and literature and a lot of things I just double multiplicity of viewpoints. Ruth added the analysis of sales in the first three to six months of a new book. Apparently in a number of cases they are seeing shelve. I don't file books alpha by author, I lump them together by that 30 to 50 percent of a book's sales volume in the first three to six months interest." Holmes' concern isn't over established books, such as The is coming from independents even though we only have a 10 percent overall Lord of the Rings series, but about new work that can get lost, share of book distribution. So, what explains this three to five times higher especially in larger stores, staffed by "clerks as opposed to share in that crucial early stage of a new book's life cycle? Probably the fact booklovers." that discerning readers go to independents to discover the next great read. Question to other independents: So if we are so important to publishers in the At Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, New York, Jonathan Welch early stages of a book, how do we better capitalize that? explained that the store's "basic philosophy is to shelve books in places where people will be most likely to find them." For instance, 8. Find of the trade show: NCIBA's holiday catalog. What a deal! Hut a memoir that deals heavily with food or cooking might be placed Landon and his team have organized this nice holiday catalog of books that in the cooking section as well as the memoir section. Because there we can do custom imprinting on. It's free for booksellers -- obviously always are space constraints, Talking Leaves has been arranged to subsidized by publishers whose books are featured. I am scrambling to get my order in. Got to go! "put sections in a vicinity with another that makes sense," he said. "Memoir and biography; food, health, and gardening." 33 At Maria's Bookshop in Durango, Colorado, Joe Foster said, "I Praveen Madan, and his wife, Christin Evans, became the owners of San read across all genres.... so I am very active with handselling." Francisco's The Booksmith in June 2007. Foster writes book reviews for an independent magazine, so that helps him find good reads, too. Take This Book and Shelve It: But handselling is not the cure-all for rescuing great books from the Confronting the Category Ghetto remainder pile. "A lot of times I pay attention to the BISAC code," Foster explained, "but I also think about the target audience for a October 17, 2007 -- It's a dilemma that every bookseller faces: particular book." He pointed out that Mary Doria Russell's The Where do you shelve a book so that the right reader finds it? Sparrow (Ballantine), for example, is a very literary book so it's Sounds like a simple question, but as many booksellers will tell shelved in the fiction section as opposed Science Fiction. you, it's not. Does that biography with lots of travel stories go in 34 Similarly, Kaleidoscope's Holmes shelved The Book of Air & biography or travel ... or is there space to put a copy in each Shadows by Michael Gruber (Morrow) -- a thriller about the section? What about books by or about Hillary Clinton and murder of a Shakespearian scholar -- alongside books by and about Rudolph Giuliani -- are they placed in politics, history, or Shakespeare, figuring readers interested in the Bard might be enjoy biography ... or somewhere else? Or that great, lost literary mystery the book. that has cross-appeal? Importantly, where do you think your customers will expect to find the book? At R.J. Julia's, in the town of Madison, Connecticut, Karen Corvello stressed, "We don't let anyone tell us how to code things. When you add it all up, booksellers are faced with an amazing We shelve books where customers think they're going to look for number of possible shelving permutations each day and divvying it them first." R.J. Julia also has a Staff Suggestions section that all up in a finite space -- sometimes very finite -- is a challenge includes titles from the entire store. "The Staff Suggestions section worthy of any statistician. is right inside at the front of the store," Corvello said. "That's one The key, booksellers noted, is to know your inventory and your way to address the issue." customers -- and to think outside the box. Another way to cross-promote books across genres is through 32 Keri Holmes, owner of The Kaleidoscope bookstore in Hampton, seasonal displays. "I rearrange for seasonal reasons," said Holmes. Iowa, feels very strongly about Zoran Zivkovic's Steps Through the "My store is so small I think about books in terms of Mist (Aio Publishing), a book that is BISAC-coded as a fantasy. merchandising. I don't get as locked into those categories." It's all The problem is, she said, the book is perfect for readers who prefer about "pulling stuff from its normal home and finding a way to literary fiction, many of whom would never deign to darken the display it and link it [to a reader] in a way that" is unexpected, she shelves of her store's fantasy section. explained. 35 Holmes loves Zivkovic's book so much that she decided to write For example, the store has an Iowa-oriented display table, which the book's publisher, Aio Publishing, to first, compliment the small includes tour books of Iowa and Iowa-related books. As part of the publisher on the book's content and design and second, to discuss display, the store included a non-Iowa-oriented field guide to her fears that this tremendous title could easily get lost in the cemeteries, Stories in Stone by Douglas Keister (Gibbs Smith). so-called "fantasy ghetto" of bookstores across the country. Holmes simply figured that anyone interested in touring Iowa might be interested in a field guide to cemeteries, and she was Noting that "fantasy novel" often "connotes trivial plots, pure right. "We sold dozens," she said. "It's about finding the common entertainment, buxom women, dueling muscular heroes, and thread. Sometimes you can give legs to older books." adolescent readers," Holmes prefers to categorize Zivkovic's work as speculative fiction. "This is literary fiction," she told the Sometimes the solution is actually to create an entire new section, publisher. "I want ... to help my customers see what the 'fantasy' as was the case at Talking Leaves in Buffalo. Welch reported that, fog may be obscuring, in this case a luminescent literary gem. I will after Toni Morrison grew in stature, the store received requests be handselling Steps Through the Mist ." from customers for books by other African-American authors. Ultimately, the solution was to create an entire section devoted to In a recent interview, Holmes discussed the ghettoization dilemma African-American literature. The store also created similar sections that all booksellers face. "There's two problems," she said. for Native American writing and GLBT fiction, he said.

"It is a service to readers to do this," Welch said, adding that it's connection to the store, should be sent to Mary Grey James, important to understand that there are "lots of customers who don't WNBA Pannell chair, via e-mail to [email protected] like to ask" where a particular book is. Over time, however, "you 39 or Pannell Award Nomination, 2200 Sharondale Dr., Nashville, get to know your customers and that is the great thing about being TN 37215. an independent and in a neighborhood. Some ideas about shelving 36 The deadline for nominations, which must include the nominator's came from our customers." -- David Grogan name and industry affiliation, is January 11, 2008. Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize Bookstore Sales Up Again in August 37 October 17, 2007 -- On Tuesday, October 16, Anne Enright was October 15, 2007 -- Preliminary figures released by the Bureau of named the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 38 the Census show an increase in retail sales at bookstores in August The Gathering , published in the U.S. in September by Black Cat, 2007 of 9.3 percent compared to August 2006. August bookstore a paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic. The prize sales are estimated at $2,286 million, compared to sales of $2,091 recognizes the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen million for the same period last year. of the British Commonwealth or Ireland, as selected by a panel of judges including some of the country's best-known critics, writers, Spurred by sales of the seventh and final title in the Harry Potter and academics. series, August figures represent the second consecutive month that bookstore sales outpaced the previous year's results; however, the Enright is the second Irish woman to win the prize and joins fellow gains were not enough to offset completely the decline over the compatriots, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle, and John Banville who first six months. Bookstore sales for the year to date remain a little won the prize in 1978, 1993, and 2005, respectively. more than half a percentage point below 2006 levels. The chairman of the judging panel, Howard Davies, said The Overall total retail and food service sales were also up in August. Gathering provided "an unflinching look at a grieving family in Retail sales were $395 billion in August 2007, compared to $379 tough and striking language." billion in August 2006, an increase of 4.2 percent. The Gathering has won high praise in the U.S. In his Los Angeles Period 2006 Final 2007 % Change Times review, Tim Rutten described Enright's book as "a (Millions of Dollars) (Millions of Dollars) 2007 over 2006 wonderfully elegant and unsparing novel that takes the old Irish subjects of family dysfunction and the vagaries of memory into January 2,206 2,175 -1.4 territory made fresh by an objectivity so precise it seems almost February 1,082 1,013 -6.4 loving in its care." March 1,071 999 -6.7 "We have published all four books of Anne Enright's and we April 967 908 -6.1 believe she is one of the great voices writing in the English May 1,150 1,104 -4.0 language today," said Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of June 1,210 1,130 -6.6 Grove/Atlantic Inc. "We are honored to be her publisher here in the U.S. and we are thrilled to see her receive the recognition ... she has July 1,108 1,189 7.3 long deserved." August 2,091 2,286 (p) 9.3 Enright was born in Dublin where she continues to live and work. YTD 10,885 10,804 -0.7 She is the author of three previous novels: The Wig My Father (p) Preliminary figure Wore , What Are You Like? , and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (all Grove/Atlantic). Note: Estimates reflect sales of all types of participating bookstore, including trade, college, religious, chain stores (including This is the second year in a row that Grove/Atlantic has published superstores), and others. A bookstore is defined as any retail the Booker winner (last year's winner was Kiran Desai's The establishment with sales comprised of more than 50 percent new Inheritance of Loss ). It is the first award for the paperback original books and periodicals, and estimates include sales of all products in imprint Black Cat. these stores.

WNBA Seeks Outstanding Children's Source: Bureau of the Census, Current Retail Trade Branch. Booksellers October 17, 2007 -- The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) is calling for nominations for the Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards, honoring bookstores that excel at inspiring interest in reading and creatively bringing books and young people together. WNBA will present the awards to two bookstores -- one general and one children's specialty bookstore -- at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles. Books & Books: 25 Years of Making a Each recipient will receive a check for $1,000 plus a framed piece Difference of original art by a children's book illustrator. October 18, 2007 -- 40 One night isn't going to be enough to Nominations should include the name of the store, address and celebrate the silver anniversary of South Florida's Books & Books, which has hosted thousands of locally and nationally known phone number, a contact person at the store, and an e-mail address, 41 along with a brief description of why the store is worthy of the authors over its two and a half decades. So Books & Books' award. Nominations, including the nominator's name and website suggests customers and friends "Save the Month" for the

© 2007 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 8 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK October 18, 2007 flood of anniversary celebrations throughout October. Festivities bookstores have largely directed. "For one reason or another people include dozens of readings, a storewide sale, and a block party are looking to local independent businesses because they are where revelers can toast the bookstore's 25th anniversary with beginning to understand the value that they bring to the champagne. community," explained Kaplan. "They are beginning to understand "It's going to be big party," said owner Mitchell Kaplan. "We're what they lose when an independent bookstore closes, or what they having an open house as a way of giving back to our customers. lose when a local hardware store closes. It's a message that We'll be closing down the street and setting up a stage for 10 independent bookstores have articulated for many years now, but it different musical groups. We'll also be giving away food from our seems that the time is right for this message to be heard." cafes all night, and the next day we're having a big book club But Kaplan measured his optimism somewhat. "On the other hand, mixer." we've never been in a more uncertain time when it comes to the The roster of readings and events seems like a lit fest in itself. whole business of bookselling. Clearly we're on the cusp, I think, of Among the authors slated to appear are Dave Barry, Sharon lots of changes. And how we booksellers navigate the waters of Creech, Mary Gordon, and Ann Patchett. On Saturday, October 20, those changes will ultimately determine the health and strength of the day of the anniversary party, the bookstore will hold a independent bookselling." storewide sale, and that night festivities will spill out from the One of the guides for booksellers over the years has been Book courtyard onto Aragon Avenue for the massive block party. Sense, said Kaplan. The program is "a tool that has helped Many authors who have read at the store, as well as customers, [independent booksellers] articulate who we are. The tools we have have signed Twenty Five 42 , Books & Books' "commemorative right now are so much more sophisticated than when I started, and online publication." Dave Barry, a longtime friend of Kaplan and it allows us to be so much better at what we do." the bookstore, wrote: "Not only does Books & Books have a The increased strength and resources of indies led him to consider brilliant yet mellow owner in Mitchell Kaplan; not only does it how powerful the industry would be if so many bookstores hadn't have a knowledgeable and unflaggingly helpful staff; not only does closed in the last decade or so, he said. "We've gotten to the point it have excellent events almost every night featuring a spectacular now through computers, Book Sense, and other tools that we can array of authors; not only is it a great place to spend an afternoon or direct market, and we're doing such a great job. Imagine the power evening; but it also has the one indispensable element of a truly of the independent bookselling if we had a couple thousand literary experience: beer." Other authors penning tributes include bookstores back in business. We've lost a lot of wonderful Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, and Carl Hiaasen. bookstores." Kaplan was also recently honored by the Miami-Dade Public Kaplan said that his anniversary has led him to think about some of Library Foundation at a reception where more than 60 local authors the bookstores that have closed as well as to more fully understand toasted the bookseller. the impact Books & Books has had on Miami and its elemental role A past president of the American Booksellers Association and in building the city's literary life. A role, he noted, that countless current American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression other independents have filled across the country. Reflecting on the board member, as well as a co-founder of Miami Book Fair legacy of the South Florida institution, Kaplan said, "It's International, Kaplan is a Miami native. In 1982, after teaching wonderfully gratifying to be part of that community of independent booksellers and to have built a bookstore that's made a difference." high school English for a few years, he founded the first Books & 43 Books in an 800-square-foot location in Coral Gables. The store -- Karen Schechner expanded to its present 8,000-square-foot space in December 2000. Books & Books hosts nightly author events, as well as book clubs, discussions, workshops, cooking demonstrations, and live music. It has a full restaurant, The Cafe at Books & Books, in the store's courtyard. In 1989, Books & Books opened a second location on the well-trafficked Lincoln Road in South Beach. The bookstore, which has ceiling-high windows facing the pedestrian mall, Classifieds specializes in art, design, fashion and architecture, and, like the BOOKSTORES FOR SALE Coral Gables location, also has a full service restaurant. The third Books & Books opened in 2005 in Bal Harbour and a fourth, in the Sedona, Arizona Book/Music/Gift store for sale. Established 26 Cayman Islands, will open this fall. years. Profitable. New Age and general interest products. Loyal customers. Almost 2,700 leased sf. including large meeting room Kaplan's start in bookselling grew out of a "vague notion I wanted for book signings and to rent out. Lots of product expansion to be around books and the people who write and read them," he opportunities. Transition support provided. $190,000 + inventory. told BTW. "What drove me ... was discovering what a bookstore E-mail [email protected] 52 for details. could do for and mean to a community. I was motivated by a desire to help develop a nascent book town. The idea grew in a very organic way; I didn't have it mapped out. 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