And the response has been great, very validating and affirming. "Making the offer drew a lot of attention. "It got people excited," said Barnard, who added that his store sold 70 copies of Storied Life last week. The first batch went out around 1 p.m., the next went out between 3:30 and 4, and the staff fulfilled the last orders as they headed home after closing. In the e-mail to customers, he also mentioned that Storied Life was a book that "you must buy from a quirky, indie bookshop." All told, Rakestraw Books received two dozen orders and did three rounds of deliveries. "It's the perfect rainy day read, and we had enough people on staff to get all the orders out," Barnard related. The store had done some deliveries before on an ad hoc basis, but nothing on this scale. Fikry the same day, with no extra charge. So that morning they sent an e-mail to customers advertising the following deal: call and place an order by 4 p.m., and receive The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, a novel about a "sort of curmudgeonly man and his bookstore being brought back to life," and were eager to sell it. Rainy days tend to be quieter we were so frustrated." Barnard and his staff of five had all read and loved The Storied Life of A.J. "As I was driving to work, it started pouring.
"We'd had a quiet Monday, which was a little discouraging, and Tuesday was a little better but we were counting on Wednesday to be really good," explained store owner Michael Barnard. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Algonquin) and receive it later the same day. Last Wednesday, Rakestraw Books in Danville, Calif., offered a rainy-day special to nearby customers: anyone who lived in the towns of Danville, Alamo or Diablo could call the store and order The Storied Life of A.J. She was incomparable." Before joining Abrams in 2007, Warshal worked in the sales departments at Workman and Bloomberg Press. We, at Abrams, and her friends and colleagues everywhere, will miss her spark and her spirit, and her deep passion for books and publishing and people. Abrams said that Warshal was "beloved and respected by her colleagues, sales representatives, booksellers, and friends in the industry for her incredible spirit, professionalism, and superb managerial skills." Abrams president and CEO Michael Jacobs said, "Erica's passing is a tragic loss for all of us. Bretholz, who wrote Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe with journalist Michael Olesker, later managed several bookstores.Įrica Kochman Warshal, director of national accounts at Abrams, died suddenly on March 31. Leo Bretholz, who "made a daring escape from the Nazis by jumping off a moving train en route to Auschwitz and decades later led a campaign for reparations from the French railway that carried thousands of others to their deaths during the Holocaust," died March 8, the Washington Post reported. Religious presses rose 1.9%, to $572 million, and university presses were up 2.9%, to $118.9 million.Į-book sales were relatively flat in 2013, compared to the previous several years: adult e-book sales rose 3.8%, to $1.3 billion, while children's/YA e-books had the worst year of any category, falling 26.7%, to $170.5 million. In major categories, adult books overall rose 0.8%, to $4.88 billion, while children's/YA titles fell 6.6%, to $1.56 billion.
Total net book sales in 2013 rose 1%, to $15.05 billion, compared to 2012, and represent sales of 1,211 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the Association of American Publishers.
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