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Bookstore News: September 22, 2016
Amazon moves into Southern California; a Wisconsin bookstore considers going co-op; Macmillan expedites holiday shipping; and more.
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Google Play Books App Adds Discover Feature
The new feature, intended to help users with book discovery, mines information from online book news, reviews and video content.
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Bookstore News: September 20, 2016
Amazon Books preps to debut outside of Boston; Curious George takes on a developer in Cambridge, Mass.; a long-time bookstore co-op in Wisconsin weighs its options; and more.
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Bookstore News: September 19, 2016
Bookstores are on the move in Alabama, Mississippi, and New Jersey; a bookstore gets a new life in Tampa; a Bronx bookseller’s business plan is named one of the best in the city; and more.
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SIBA 2016: Attendance Jumps Amid Debate to Move the Show to Spring
Attendance at SIBA's September 16-18 show was up 25% over 2015 and one of the main topics of conversation was the plan to move the event to the spring in 2018.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending September 11, 2016
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 19, 2016
Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle Melton’s new memoir is the #1 – and #2 – book in Hardcover Nonfiction, thanks to an Oprah nod. Plus Margot Lee Shetterly writes of a group of mid-century NASA mathematicians, all African-American women, in ‘Hidden Figures,’ and a pair of new books highlight the Sunshine State.
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Southern Booksellers Hit Savannah
SIBA's decision to move its fall show to the spring beginning in 2018 was questioned by some attendees as the regional meeting began on September 16.
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Parnassus Books Launches Online Auction to Help One of Its Own—and Binc
An outpouring of support from bestselling authors to raise money for a children's bookseller with cancer led the Nashville store to hold a larger auction to support the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.
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After Months of Strong Sales, Bookstores See Drop in July
Bookstore sales in July fell by just under 1% compared to July 2015, marking the first month in 2016 that sales were down.
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All Quiet at B&N Annual Meeting
Despite the release last week of disappointing quarterly results and the surprise dismissal of CEO Ron Boire in August, the chain's shareholders meeting, held Wednesday, was a tranquil affair.
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Bookstore News: September 14, 2016
Two bookstores set to open in Pittsburgh; another store spreads its wings in Georgia; a Baltimore bookstore receives local plaudits; and more.
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Summer 2016: Children's Booksellers More Than Hold Their Own with a Little Harry Potter Magic
Flat was the new up between June 1 and August 30 at many bookstores that participated in PW's informal survey of 20 stores throughout the country.
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Bookstore News: September 12, 2016
New stores open in Michigan, Massachusetts, and Kansas; a nonprofit preps a bookstore/literary center in North Carolina; and more.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending September 4, 2016
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Len Riggio Promises to Fix Barnes & Noble
After a slow start to the fiscal year, Riggio, who returned as Barnes & Noble's CEO after last month's ouster of Ron Boire, has plans to improve the bookseller's bottom line.
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Independent Booksellers See Second Strong Summer in a Row
Flat was the new up at many bookstores that participated in PW's annual summer sales survey.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 12, 2016
Canadian author Louise Penny has the #3 book in the country with ‘A Great Reckoning,’ her 12th Inspector Gamache mystery. Plus ’The Nix’ lands at #9 in Hardcover Fiction—and lands a TV deal—John Lewis’s civil rights era graphic memoir concludes with ‘March: Book Three,’ and much more.
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Perseus Distribution to Use Ingram Network
Starting October 1, titles from PGW, Consortium, Perseus Distribution, and Legato to independent booksellers will be shipped through the Ingram distribution network.
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Bookstore News: September 8, 2016
New, used, and rare bookstores are opening in Georgia, Kentucky, and Ohio; a mother-and-daughter prep a specialty children’s store in Massachusetts; and more.