BTW News Briefs

Above the Treeline Provides Online Catalogs at Fall Shows

Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss will provide online companion catalogs for eight regional trade shows this fall. The online catalogs will provide attendees, interested booksellers, bloggers, and other book industry professionals with an online resource to browse, share, tag, and order titles being featured at the shows.

Catalogs, which will be activated a week before each show and remain active for at least a month following the show, will have a dedicated domain name and section within Edelweiss:

• Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA): www.booksatgliba.com/
• Midwest Booksellers Assocation (MBA): www.booksatmba.com/
• Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA): www.booksatmpiba.com/
• New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA): www.booksatneiba.com/
• New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Assocation (NAIBA): www.booksatnaiba.com/
• Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA): www.booksatpnba.com/
• Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA): www.booksatsiba.com/
• Southern California Independent Booksellers Alliance (SCIBA): www.booksatsciba.com/

More information about the regional bookseller associations fall trade show companion catalogs is available on the Edelweiss website or by e-mailing tradeshows@abovethetreeline.com.

Candlewick to Announces New TOON Imprint

Under a partnership announced this week, Candlewick Press is launching a new imprint that will bring TOON Books for emerging readers to a wider audience. TOON Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press, will launch October 1, with 11 hardcover titles. This fall, Candlewick will also begin selling TOON’s backlist. Plans call for the new imprint to publish four to five new titles each year.

TOON Books was launched in spring 2008 by Françoise Mouly, art editor of The New Yorker, publisher and editorial director of RAW Junior, and publisher of RAW magazine.

Paz & Associates Offers Free Image Matters

The Bookstore Training and Consulting Group of Paz & Associates is offering the free booklet, Image Matters, part of its Lifelong Long Learning Series, to any bookseller who requests it. Image Matters looks at design basics, how to infuse your store with a sense of style, and more.

Interested booksellers should contact Donna Paz Kaufman via e-mail.

AAP Files Brief in Supreme Court Case

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a ruling by the Ninth Circuit that held the “first sale doctrine” does not apply to the unauthorized importation into the U.S. of copyrighted works that are manufactured overseas and acquired abroad. AAP’s friend-of-the-court brief was filed this week in the case of Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A.

The case involves the importation of wristwatches, not books, but AAP said that it is “critically important to U.S. publishers because the Supreme Court ruling will determine whether the ‘first sale doctrine’ (which allows the owner of a copy of a work protected by U.S. copyright to sell or otherwise dispose of that particular copy without having to get the permission of the copyright holder) will operate to legalize the importation of books that were manufactured abroad for distribution in foreign markets and never intended for sale in the United States.”

Judges Pick Man Booker Shortlist

The six shortlisted titles for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, announced by the chair of judges, Andrew Morton, in London on Tuesday, September 7, are:

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador/Pan Macmillan)
• In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books/Grove Atlantic)
• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Review/Headline Publishing Group)
• C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape/Random House)

The winner will be announced October 12.