Edelweiss Weekly Update – Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Edelweiss Weekly Update – Tuesday, September 29^th, 2009 

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We’ll be at GLiBA in Cleveland, NAiBA in Baltimore, and NEiBA in Hartford over the next week, presenting Edelweiss and meeting with book industry professionals from around the country.  If you’re attending, we hope to see you there.

TIP OF THE WEEK

As a retailer or other catalog reader, the two ways you can “work” a catalog and create orders are: (1) your sales rep sends you a mailing which shows up in your Edelweiss “Inbox” or (2) you make a copy of the publisher’s unmarked catalog from the “Available Catalogs” section of Edelweiss into one of your working folders.  You can right-click on a catalog to copy it.  See the example below.

FEATURES & FIXES

• 'Rollup’ export format now available to sales reps: This means you can export an order for multi-store accounts that will show each store’s order quantity on the same line in your file. Also, you can elect to combine them into a single order quantity across stores. To use this feature:
  • create a new Custom Export and select ROLLUP as file type, then pick an account since this will control which stores are available to pick quantities for. You would probably name the format after the account if you are going to use it for individual store quantities, but if you are going to use just for the total order quantity for each item for all stores, you can use a more generic name and also use the format for exporting orders from other multi-store accounts as well.
  • You will need to create separate formats for each account if you want to see all store quantities on the same line. However, if you just need a single summed quantity for all stores in the account, you can use the same format for multiple stores.
  • Drag and drop the fields from the right hand side to the box on the left to create the export format, and arrange the fields in the order you want to see them going across your exported file. For the sum of orders for all stores, make sure to select “All Store Units.”
• Tags applied to a title are now fully spelled out in the list view.
• Improvements to way that measurements are displayed in both the list view or the detail page.  Note that you may need click on ‘Add Elements’ and select  Measurements if they are not showing for you in the List View.

NEW CATALOGS

Hay House added their Fall 2009 season as well as Winter 2009 and Spring/Summer 2009.  In addition, Tyndale released their Spring 2010 catalog within Edelweiss:

• Hay House New Title Releases: September - December 2009  (38 Titles)
• Hay House New Title Releases: May 2009 - August 2009   (55 Titles)
• Hay House New Title Releases: January 2009 - April 2009  (52 Titles)
• Tyndale Spring 2010 (72 Titles)

INTERNET BUZZ – OCTOBER 2009 RELEASES

TOP 10 TWEETED HARDCOVER TITLES

1. Fire by Cashore, Kristin 
2. The Children's Book by Byatt, A.S.  
3. Whole Earth Discipline by Brand, Stewart
4. Crush It! by Vaynerchuk, Gary  
5. Amelia by Nair, Mira  
6. The Tao of Wu by The RZA  
7. D-Day by Beevor, Antony
8. Last Night in Twisted River by Irving, John  
9. Family Album by Lively, Penelope 
10. Chronic City by Lethem, Jonathan

TOP 10 BLOGGED HARDCOVER TITLES

1. Fire by Cashore, Kristin
2. The Children's Book by Byatt, A.S.  
   
3. The Maze Runner by Dashner, James
4. Amelia by Nair, Mira
5. Odd and the Frost Giants by Gaiman, Neil
6. Crush It! by Vaynerchuk, Gary  
7. Once Was Lost by Zarr, Sara  
8. The Vows of Silence by Hill, Susan  
9. K2 by Viesturs, Ed
10. Secret Society by Dolby, Tom  

As always, email me or edelweiss@abovethetreeline.com if you have any problems, questions, or suggestions.

Mark

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