Authors, librarians, and buyers for book retailers also attend the event.

As someone who works for a book retailer, I've been dreading an announcement like this.

But those efforts could further cool relations among the company, other book retailers and the publishing houses that are its biggest suppliers.

At $20 a share, the book retailer will have a market capitalization of about $770 million, or 25 times its operating profit.

It is somewhat easier to imagine the domination of a book retailer.

There wasn't room to compete as an electronic book retailer.

It will serve these new readers, book retailers and, yeah why not, Booker itself.

- To help book retailers find the 50 food and wine books that each year should be offered to clients.

It comes at a time of financial troubles for independent book retailers across the nation.

It is Germany's oldest and largest purely cooking book retailer.