Waterstone’s Changes Buying Calendar

Booktrade.info reports that book retailer Waterstone’s will change the way they buy books centrally to allow them to confirm buying decisions three months ahead of publication date. As a result W are creating a buying timetable, including a buying week for each month’s new titles, and moving from six monthly highlights presentations to three times yearly presentations where publishers present the key titles for each major season: Spring, Summer and Autumn/Christmas. So W are cancelling all existing appointments and six monthly highlight presentations from late August onwards and rescheduling according to their new timetable.

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