January 22, 2014

Jim Hilt, vice president and head of global ebook sales for Barnes & Noble, will leave the company in February and B&N has no plans to replace him, according to… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Amazon will begin collecting sales tax in North Carolina next month

Alex Shephard

Amazon, a company intent on making the plot of Minority Report a reality in our lifetime, will begin to collect sales tax in North Carolina on February 1st. of this year The… Read more »

Greg Mortenson goes on Today to apologize for Three Cups of Tea scandal

Julia Fleischaker

For the first time since agreeing to pay his own charity back one million dollars, bestselling author and apparent serial exaggerator Greg Mortenson agreed to sit down for an interview.… Read more »

The most prolific author you’ve never heard of

Zeljka Marosevic

Meet Craig Osso, aka Russell Blake, a retired American property developer living in Mexico who is also a self-published bestselling author with 26 novels to his name. Osso’s success has… Read more »

Handseller takes personalized recommendations taken to the next level

Indie bookstores are fundamental to literary culture. Unfortunately, many are struggling. Morley Horder, Rene Kirkpatrick, and Tim Hunter, of the Bainbridge Island, WA bookstore Eagle Harbor Book Co., have come… Read more »

Melville House Books

Third Nook executive in a row to leave Barnes & Noble

Kirsten Reach