book business

After summer vacations spent spotting nature, Arbordale’s new titles, Animal Skins and The Forest in the Trees helps you keep learning at home. World travelers can brush up on new languages with classic Arbordale picture books also making their debut this fall. Both The Forest in the Trees and Animal Skins release on September 10th, and titles in French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic are currently available and forthcoming throughout the fall. Scientists are continually […]

Depending on your perspective, it’s been a difficult few weeks for publishing. Or it’s been a golden one. Certainly author tricks, hijinks and missteps have been everywhere, along with scandals and cups of urine. (Wait. What? Never mind. Keep reading.) Front and center, of course, has been the story around editor-turned-bestselling-author A.J. Flynn/Dan Mallory whose 2018 debut Woman in the Window sold a lot of books and has been nominated for a lot of awards. […]

Want to get away from the everyday? We look back at a 2017 list of “17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit” from  Conde Nast Traveler. The magazine deems this nearly half score of getaway spots to be ones “that seem to have been made specifically for the literary minded, including charming bookstores in Paris, quirky hotels in Japan, and beautiful monasteries in Prague.” And it’s a gorgeous list, including a bookstore created inside a […]

After more than a decade of digitally fostered decline, bookstores are making a comeback says CBS News in a recent article: Between 2009 and 2015, more than 570 independent bookstores opened in the U.S., bringing the total to more than 2,200; that’s about a 35 percent jump after more than a decade of decline. The surprise recovery may hold lessons for other small retailers. The new breed of bookstore, the article suggests, is more than […]