Mockingjay Sales, Borders Loss & Apple Accounts: Weekend Reading

The GalleyCat team will relax this holiday weekend, returning bright and early on Tuesday morning. In the meantime, we wanted to make sure you had plenty of publishing headlines to keep you busy over the weekend. Email GalleyCat to get all our publishing stories, book deal news, videos, podcasts, interviews, and writing advice in a daily email newsletter.

Barnes & Noble announced they will close the Upper West Side superstore in New York City, reminding some readers of You’ve Got Mail (trailer embedded above)–a fictional look at different era for bookselling.

Suzanne Collins sold an awe-inspiring 450,000 copies of Mockingjay in a single week.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs bragged that his company counted 35 million eBook downloads.

We took you behind the scenes of the new mashup book, Dick and Jane and Vampires.

Borders posted a net loss of $46.7 million for the second quarter.

We interviewed one reader who found love through a bookstore dating service.

Kaplan Publishing extended its free eBook deal for readers.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting this Thursday, February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Michael Brito (Edelman Digital), and Tim Devane (bitly). Register now.