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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending February 20, 2015
Winter weather continues to affect bookstores and other small businesses, particularly in the Boston area, which is winding down its celebration of Valentine's Week.
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'Birdman' Drives Interest in Raymond Carver Collection
Sales of Carver's 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,' are up 121% after being featured in the Oscar-winning film.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending February 8, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 16, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Indie Bookstores Fill Void Left by Borders
When Borders liquidated at the end of 2011, it left many communities without a bookstore.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending February 13, 2015
A flurry of bookselling events took place this week, including the introduction of carefully culled French sections, or "corners," in seven indies around the country.
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Teicher Says Wi10 Shows 'Resurgence' of Indies
This year's Winter Institute showcased the vitality of independent booksellers. “Anybody who doubts the resurgence of independent booksellers, I wish they could have been in Asheville,” said ABA CEO Oren Teicher.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 4.5% in 2014
Bookstore sales fell 4.5% in 2014, to $11.38 billion, down from $11.90 billion in 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Minimum Wage, Diversity Top Concerns at Wi10
The high energy that has marked Winter Institute carried over into sessions where booksellers spoke about the challenges ahead, from dealing with minimum wage increase laws to creating a more equal partnership with publishers.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending February 1, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 9, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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DesHotel Named New CFO for ABA
Former PEN American Center director of finance and administration to replace Eleanor Chang next month.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending February 6, 2015
With the addition of 59 new store members to the ABA last year—the most since 2008—this has been a good week for booksellers.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 8, 2016
'A Man Called Ove' by Fredrik Backman, a handselling success, debuts on our Trade Paperback list. Plus Kiera Cass’s self-published novel, written pre-'The Selection,' gets a revamp, and a new Harry Potter coloring book tops the Children’s Picture Book list.
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Q&A with Strand Book Store Children's Buyer Stella Williams
Bookseller Stella Williams tells PW about working at the New York City's famed Strand Book Store, and the plans to grow the store's children's department.
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Little City Books to Open in Hoboken
An unlikely trio—a literary agent, a singer/songwriter, and an investment banker—are bringing the first general independent bookstore in over a decade to this New Jersey city.
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Tracking Amazon: New Harper Lee Tops The Charts
'Go Set a Watchman,' to be released by HarperCollins this July, claimed the #1 spot on Amazon's chart, with 'Mockingbird,' written 50 years prior, jumping from #7,564 to the #2 spot.
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Amazon Unveils First Staffed Location On a College Campus
Purdue University, the second of three colleges in the country to have a co-branded online store with Amazon, now has the first staffed campus location from the e-tailer.
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Minimum Wage Law to Shutter SF Indie
With the law set to its increase its payroll by 39%, 18-year-old Borderlands Books said it will have to close its doors by March 31.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 25, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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