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Copy Shop Opens Bookstore in Amherst
On May 1 Collective Copies, a worker-owned print shop in Western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, will hold the grand opening of its Off the Common Bookshop.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 20, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Teresa Rolfe Kravtin: PW 2014 Rep of the Year
This year’s PW Rep of the Year award winner, Teresa Rolfe Kravtin, a commission rep with Southern Territory Associates since 2002, owes it all to Faith—or at least a good part of it.
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Green Apple Books: PW Bookstore of the Year
Twenty years ago, if someone had told Pete Mulvihill, Kevin Ryan, and Kevin Hunsanger that they would one day own Green Apple Books, the store where they then worked, all three of them would have been “gob-smacked”—much like their reaction last month when they were told that their San Francisco indie had been selected as PW’s 2014 Bookstore of the Year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 28, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Upshur Bookstore to Open in DC
Washington's Petworth area, home to George Pelecanos's fictional Detective Strange, will get a bookstore in September.
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Book, Magazine Sales Fell 9% at BAM
Sales of books and magazines fell about 9% at Books-A-Million in the year ended February 1, 2014 compared to the prior year.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 13, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Books, Toys Still Work Together for Specialty Outlets
Since the demise of Noodle Kidoodle and Zany Brainy in the early 2000s, specialty “book-and-toy” stores have maintained a low profile.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 21, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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What’s Selling in New England: Spotlight On New England 2014
The reading tastes of New Englanders closely mirrored that of the rest of the country, at least in the first week in April.
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Yankee Ingenuity: Bookselling in New England - Spotlight On New England 2014
New England booksellers long have been in the bookselling forefront: from founding the first regional bookselling group more than four decades ago (the New England Independent Booksellers Association) and the paperback revolution (Paperback Booksmith) to computerized inventory systems (WordStock) and the launch of regional and national chains (Lauriat’s and Waldenbooks).
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Left Bank Books To Close Downtown Location
After negotiations for a better lease fell through, Left Bank Books in St. Louis is closing its 5,500-square-foot downtown location as of May 31.
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Indies Test 'One Book, One Store' Campaigns
This year several independent bookstores have tried putting their weight behind a single title in an effort to see if they can move the sales needle through strong, but quick, promotional efforts.
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Green Apple to Open Second SF Store
PW 2014 Bookstore of the Year will open its second location in 15 years and return to Ninth Avenue.
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February Bookstore Sales Dropped 6.8%
Bookstore sales fell 6.8% in February, to $791 million, compared to February 2013, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 6, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 14, 2014
Michael Lewis Books Trading Fast and more.
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First Children's Institute Gets Good Bookseller Reaction
Close to 130 booksellers from 32 states, plus 39 authors, attended the first standalone American Booksellers Association ABC Children's Institute, held from April 6–7 in San Antonio, Tex.
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Bezos Pens Long Amazon Shareholder Letter
In one of his longest shareholder letters, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave readers a “tour” of 21 Amazon initiatives.
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