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Atlanta Feminist Bookstore Seeks New Path to Viability
The 41-year-old Charis Books and More bookstore, one of approximately a dozen remaining feminist bookstores in the U.S., has put its building up for sale.
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September Bookstore Sales Up 6.7%
Sales this September hit $1.09 billion, up from $1.02 billion last year.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending November 8, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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New Shakespeare & Co. Owner Envisions a National Bookstore Chain
Several months after buying Shakespeare & Co., Dane Neller, co-founder of the company that makes the Espresso book machine, is busy transforming the store with an eye toward national expansion.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 16, 2015
Jeff Kinney’s 10th Wimpy Kid installment, ‘Old School,’ is the number one book in the country. Plus Leah Remini writes a Scientology tell-all, YouTube baker Rosanna Pansino cooks up her first book, and much more.
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Revolution Books Set to Reopen in Harlem
After being forced out of its home in May, the long-time New York City bookstore is holding in-store fundraisers at its new location this weekend and next before opening on November 24.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending November 13, 2015
This week marked the grand opening of a new store in Michigan, with two other stores--in Washington and Florida--prepping to open new locations before the end of the month.
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What's Selling at Colgate Bookstore
Kate Reynolds, general book buyer at the Colgate University Bookstore, talks about some of the titles she is currently selling, what she expects will be popular for holiday giving, and several early 2016 releases she’s looking forward to.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending November 1, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Amazon VP On Amazon's New Bookstore: 'We Have No Idea What's Going to Happen'
Amazon Books vice president Jennifer Cast discusses Amazon's strategy for its first physical bookstore, where a mix of data and user reviews decides the inventory.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 9, 2015
Adult coloring books take 12 of the top 25 trade paperback bestseller spots, with Johanna Basford’s ‘Lost Ocean' coming out on top. Plus fiction and nonfiction from all along the political spectrum (Rush Limbaugh, meet Ruth Bader Ginsburg).
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending November 6, 2015
This week saw the opening of an art bookstore in Chicago, and the reopening of a Michigan indie. Further south, in Raleigh, N.C., a bookstore-restaurant-brewery-florist shop is in the works.
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Louisiana Booksellers Challenge Online Age-Verification Law
Garden District Book Shop, Octavia Books, and the ABA are among the plaintiffs in a First Amendment suit leveled at a Louisiana law requiring websites to verify the age of Internet users, or face a $10,000 fine.
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Inside Amazon's First Physical Bookstore
On Tuesday, Amazon, the largest bookseller in the world, did something it has never done: it sold a book to a customer face-to-face. Despite appearances Amazon Books, the company's first branded retail storefront, is a far cry from the bookstore as we know it.
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PNBA’s Thom Chambliss to Retire
After more than 20 years at the helm of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, executive director Thom Chambliss will retire in February.
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Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore to Open Second Location
The six-year-old bookstore in the borough's Fort Greene neighborhood is branching out with a 2,100 sq. ft. location in nearby Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
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Amazon Opens First Bricks and Mortar Bookstore
The tech giant that pioneered online bookselling is going old school. Amazon unveiled its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore, Amazon Books, in Seattle’s upscale University Village shopping mall.
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Indigo Cuts Quarterly Loss as Sales Jump
Double digit growth in its general merchandise operation plus increases in its core book business led to a 8.8% increase in revenue at Indigo for its second quarter ended September 26, 2015 compared to last year’s second period.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending October 25, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Used Bookstores Bolster Bottom Lines with E-Commerce Partnerships
Rather than compete with mega-etailers, used booksellers are finding success by partnering with them and selling through their websites.



