Kobo Deal a Focus at SIBA

September 10, 2012

SIBA Kicks Off the Regional Trade Show Season and ABA's Kobo Road Show The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance's September 7-9 annual meeting held in Naples, Fla., kicked off not only the regional fall trade show season, but the American Booksellers Association's road show. The road show's goal? To convince ABA's members of the benefits of signing up for the association's recently announced agreement with Kobo under which member stores can sell Kobo devices and digital content. more » Slow Start for Wiley Results were slightly weaker than expected in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 at John Wiley, but company executives still expect to meet full year forecasts, company CEO Steve Smith said. For the quarter ended July 31, revenue fell 4%, to $411 million and net income fell 29%, to $36.1 million. Results were hurt by foreign exchange (excluding foreign exchange sales were off 2%), timing in Wiley's journal business and softness in the higher education market. Earnings reflect a $4.8 million charge tied to severance costs associated with Wiley's plan to discontinue, outsource, or relocate certain functions due to the ongoing transformation of Wiley to a more digitally oriented company. more » ADVERTISEMENT Berkley Launching Graphic Novel Imprint, InkLit Penguin's Berkley/NAL division is starting a graphic novel line called InkLit which will do original titles as well as graphic adaptations of already-published prose works. InkLit will launch on October 2 with the release of Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega: Volume 1. Richard Johnson, who co-founded Yen Press and is a former v-p of trade book sales at DC Comics, will be overseeing the new imprint. more » AAP, SIIA Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Key First Sale Ruling In separate amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court last week, both the Association of American Publishers, and the Software and Information Industry Association argue that the doctrine of first sale does not apply to foreign-made works. The briefs, filed in connection with the case Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, support a 2011 Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision which held that the doctrine of first sale, the provision which allows a legal purchaser of a copyrighted work to re-sell or share that copy, applies only to copies manufactured in the United States. That principle, AAP officials say, was correctly articulated by the appeals court, and overturning it would pave the way for domestic markets to be "superseded by lower-priced copies created for and previously sold in foreign markets," to be "collected and resold en masse in the U.S." more » Today's Job Missouri State University is seeking a Director of the Bookstore. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. Black Dog & Leventhal Launches Bookseller Contest with ABA To celebrate the publication of My Bookstore (Nov.), a collection of more than 80 essays by writers about their favorite indie bookstores, edited by Ronald Rice, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers is launching a contest on "Why My Bookstore Matters" in conjunction with the ABA. Six booksellers—two from each of three stores—will win scholarships to attend the ABA Winter Institute 8 in Kansas City, Mo., in February. more » » Job Moves: September 10, 2012 Valerie Pierce has been promoted to marketing manager - retail and libraries at Sourcebooks. She joined the company in 2011 as marketing specialist. more » » THE ROUNDUP 50 Shades Bonfire Set for Nov. 5: Mark your calendar. J.K. Rowling's New Image: How she's rebranding herself as an adult writer. Publishers Create 'New Adult' Genre: The Guardian: The latest publishing buzz is 'new adult' fiction, aimed at readers aged 14 to 35. Do you buy into it? Book-less Bookstore Open for Business: The virtual shop, operated by three bibliophiles, specializes in book-related goods, info and events--everything but the books themselves. Reading 'The Art of War' in Prison: Sun Tzu's book is the most requested. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air September 10, 2012: Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline, Alicia Ybarbo, Mary Ann Zoellner Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline, Alicia Ybarbo, and Mary Ann Zoellner, authors of Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Harry N. Abrams, 978-1419704598), will be on the Today show on September 11. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley What's a library dollar worth? The Douglas County Libraries, under the leadership of James LaRue, this week initiated the publication of an ongoing pricing report for print and ebooks appearing on the New York Times weekly [...] more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Yes, It's Time for Christmas Books Next month the WW Ladies will let us know what they think of the Christmas books they're reading. more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt A New Kind of Customer Service Generally, the bookseller is supposed to provide the service to the customers. But sometimes our customers see that we need help and lend a hand. more » Genreville Rose Fox What Conventions Are and Aren't The convention business model: help people have fun. more » ListenUp Adam Boretz Starred Review Roundup: August 2012 It's time once again for our Monthly Starred Review Roundup. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Pitching Kobo ABA CEO Oren Teicher along with Dan Cullen met with booksellers at this past weekend's SIBA show to provide more details about the ABA's deal with Kobo. Photo Credit: Jim Milliot	Of Note Tracking Amazon: Kindle Bestsellers Are Big Names & Low Prices Unlike the bestselling print titles, which are almost exclusively big names, the bestselling Kindle titles are an even mix of bestselling names and low-priced titles. The average price for a top 25 Kindle bestseller is $5.98 (compared to $13.67 for print), and 13 out of the top 25 have prices under $5.00. Only three titles in the Kindle's top 25 (as of September 10) had prices exceeding $10.00 (No Easy Day, Gone Girl, and The Light Between Oceans), compared to 16 titles in the print top 25. more »

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