Screw Disneyland I wanna go here…
Harlequin Distribution Center in Depew
no really... Fred O. Williams from the Buffalo News tells you why in Harlequin makes Depew the capital of romance novels
things that amused me:
"From the fun facts perspective, one of every six [mass market] paperbacks sold in North America is ours," Reindl says, "and we sell one every four seconds."
there is "enough floor space for eight football fields"
It generates $500 million in annual sales for Torstar and operating profits of about $50 million.
Something that makes me go hmmm...
In the eight years Reindl has worked here, the volume of books has stayed about the same, but the number of titles has surged from about 80 a month to the current total of 115 or more.
And at the end they have some ebook notes from Harlequin like...
When it started in 2005, Valik’s unit distributed only about nine titles a month; now it zaps 70 percent of Harlequin’s titles to readers.
[...] Warner has been behind the other publishers in digital publishing initiatives. According to Neil De Young, Warner currently publishes 15 titles in digital format across all publishers and imprints. Compare this to Harlequin that releases almost 70% of its line in eformat. The lack of “books” in the imprint name recognizes that there are “other emerging forms of publishing that go beyond ink and paper.” [...]