The North Carolina-based book distributor Baker and Taylor LLC laid off 253 Illinois workers this month after announcing the closure of its Momence facility... — read more 

An employment backbone in Momence since July 1962 is permanently closing its doors, and 318 workers will be out of work. Baker & Taylor, a book publishing company on the city’s southwest side, made the announcement to its workers on... — read more 

The CEO is sending librarian catalog jobs to India where he is from. My guess 6 months this company folds. Bad customer service and terrible service.

That's it

NC & NJ Entertainment staff should be prepared for the worse. As should the Pittsburgh office team. https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/01/17/north-carolina-deal-expands-ingram-entertainment.html

Nov 2018 - B&T has laid off 80 staffers, according to sources. The majority were at the Charlotte NC headquarters and Bridgewater, NJ office. Several were also cut at B&T Marketing Services in San Diego, CA. B&T spokesperson, Jenny Johnson declined... — read more 

B&T's C.A.T.S. (childrens book dept) Eastern salesperson left for Ingram and out West, their salesperson of customized services for libraries left for Brodart!! Mgmt refuses to explain

after 12 years of service, their VP of IT Product Mgmt, Livia Bitner is out as a result of re-assigned senior mgmt. She was the one to clean up their Titlesource 360 problems, so this'll hurt customers!

George Coe, now ex-pres/CEO at B&T

Changes to management no official announcement to employees what's the big secret only certain people know what's going on

This place is such a joke anymore

It has been a year since Follett bought us. In that year it is evident that Follett leadership is sorely lacking and understand why BT leadership is in charge of the FSS group. Hopefully Follett leadership continues to leave us operate autonomously... — read more 

As a long time employee of Follett I welcome the B&T folks to the fold. I know the merger was attempted back in 1994 but with the market as it is, we at Follett benefit and hopefully your addition will help us all in the long run. I stumbled onto... — read more 

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Any news about 2014?

Just curious, have you ever completed the purchase of Book Wholesalers Inc assets from Follett?

Layoffs are planned for 2014, B&T is a great company