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Losing Streak for Print Book Sales Drags On
With the adult fiction and nonfiction categories posting declines of 9% and 6%, respectively, unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week from the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Unionized Staff at Massachusetts B&N Stage Walkout
The unionized employees of the Barnes & Noble location in Hadley, Mass., staged a walkout on August 25 to highlight concerns over understaffing after filing an Unfair Labor Practice complaint.
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Booksellers Predict the Big Books of Fall 2023
Every fall season, bookseller enthusiasm builds for certain subjects, and novels—notably high-stakes historical fiction and immersive work in translation—are extra hot for 2023.
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The New Indie Books That Booksellers Want You to Read
Independent booksellers from across the country highlight eight independently published books they're excited to sell this fall.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 28, 2023
Regional favorites include a sporty self-help title and back-to-school stalwarts. Plus 'Rabbit Hutch' author Tess Gunty shows 'CBS Sunday Morning' viewers around her hometown.
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Author Events in the Postpandemic Era
In-person author events have returned as the pandemic has eased, but publishers have still scaled back author tours and are requiring longer lead times for booking, resulting in a different kind of thinking about bookstore programming.
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Nothing Was Pretty About Print Book Sales Last Week
The release of the second season of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on Amazon Prime gave a small boost to the Jenny Han novels that the series is based on last week, but it wasn't enough to stop a 7.1% drop in sales.
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BookTok Helped Book Sales Soar. How Long Will That Last?
In July, for the first month ever, sales from the roughly 180 BookTok authors BookScan follows fell from the prior year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 21, 2023
Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel, 'A Little Life,' is having a very good 2023, thanks in part to a little BookTok love. Plus James McBride stocks up at 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,' and Dav Pilkey's 11th Dog Man title gets a boost after #12 is announced.
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ShopQueer.co Is Fighting Bigotry with Book Sales
Online bookstore ShopQueer.co aims to empower queer authors by sharing profits.
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Print Book Sales Fell in All Categories Last Week
Unit sales of print books struggled again last week, falling 7.6% compared to the week ended August 13, 2022. The decline in adult fiction continued, with sales off 9.6%.
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Bookstore Sales Rose Nearly 7% in First Half of 2023
Despite a dip in June, sales increased 6.9% at bookstores during the first six months of 2023 over last year, rising to $3.86 billion.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 14, 2023
Pulitzer finalist and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett has the #2 book in the country with 'Tom Lake.' Plus 'Unreasonable Hospitality' by Will Guidara gets a boost from its cameo on 'The Bear,' and Rachel Griffin’s 'Bring Me Your Midnight' brings romantasy to our children’s fiction list.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 8.3% Last Week
In another week in which sales in all categories fell, print book sales declined 8.3% at outlets that report to BookScan, with adult fiction sales dropping 11.4%.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 7, 2023
'Baking Yesteryear' by TikTok personality B. Dylan Hollis is the #1 book in the country. Plus the buzz around the movie 'Oppenheimer' reignites interest in the Pulitzer-winning source material, and Karen M. McManus sends off her One of Us Is Lying trilogy in high style.
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The Sales Numbers on Books by Supreme Court Justices
A recent 'New York Times' article put a spotlight on the book deals made by sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. But how have books written by Supreme Court justices sold?
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With Adult Fiction Cooling, Print Book Sales Fell 5.4% Last Week
The string of weeks in which unit sales of print books were down in all major categories reached three last week, leading to a 5.4% sales decline from the comparable week in 2022. Sales of adult fiction fell 7.2%.
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New Voices New Rooms Kicks Off Fall Shows
After a virtual debut, an inaugural in-person version of the trade show will launch August 7–10 in Arlington, Va.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 31, 2023
Serena Valentino lands at #2 on our children’s fiction list with 'Fire and Fate,' the 10th volume in her Villains series for Disney. Plus erotica writer Chuck Tingle makes his traditional publishing debut, and YA author Chloe Gong steps into the adult world.
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