Outside the Margins.

The book business has changed a lot over the last 15 years, and while book retailers have had to adapt their store concepts to include toys, home decor, stationery, coffee, and other lifestyle products to stay in business, in many cases, our retailers have been expanding their book footprint while broadening their retail footprint across many parts of the globe. For the first 10 years, we were mainly focused on children's educational activity books and book-plus products, and these sold very well. In five years, our puzzle-book volume has put us in a comfortable third spot in relation to the main North American puzzle-book publishers. [Extracted from the article]

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