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With No Crawdads Singing, Print Books Take a Tumble
Unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week. All six major categories had declines. In the year's strongest segment, adult fiction, sales couldn't keep pace with last year, when 'Where the Crawdads Sing' sold more than 123,000 copies.
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Multiple Efforts Assist Flooded Vermont Stores
Sixteen Vermont bookstores and one local publisher are running a one-day fundraiser tomorrow, July 29, to help rebuild two bookstores that flooded earlier this month. In addition, New York City's Books of Wonder is selling its used fixtures to Vermont's Bear Pond Books at a steep discount.
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Washington, D.C.'s Solid State Books Unionizes
Workers at Solid State Books have unanimously voted to ratify its first union contract during a virtual meeting attended by 100% of the store's staff, according to United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400, which represents workers at the store.
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Binc Launches Business Incubator for BIPOC Booksellers
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation has announced BincTank, a new business incubator offering mentorship and support for BIPOC booksellers. The program will run for three years.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 24, 2023
The long-awaited first book by BTS rockets to the top of the list like an album by the South Korean boy band on the pop charts, #SmutTok gives Ana Huang a handful of bestsellers, and more.
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Children's Author Becomes a 'Loudmouth' for Banned Books
Author Leah Johnson isn't simply speaking up against censorship—she's putting banned books into people's hands, and will open Loudmouth Books in Indianapolis in late September.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 3.8% Last Week
With declines in every segment, unit sales of print books fell 3.8% last week compared to the week ended July 16, 2023.
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Publishers, Ingram Prepare for Possible UPS Strike
Publishers are encouraging bookstores to order early and are exploring alternative delivery options should UPS workers walk out on August 1. In some cases, publishers are extending payment terms.
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May Bookstore Sales Bounce Back
After falling in April, bookstore sales rose 6% in May over 2022, rising to $650 million from $613 million a year ago.
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The Bestselling Books of 2023 (So Far)
In the U.K., Harry Sussex is a prince and a duke. In the U.S., he’s the lord regent of the bestseller list, thanks to 'Spare.' But Colleen Hoover remains the bestselling queen.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 17, 2023
A viral TikTok sends a debut author's self-published YA murder mystery soaring. Plus a Legend of Zelda guide receives a royal reception, and new book club picks hit the lists.
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Print Book Sales Improve, Falling Only 1.6% Last Week
A flat sales performance by the adult category and smaller declines in the children’s segments than has been typical in recent weeks resulted in a smaller decline in total unit sales of print books last week.
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Global Book Sales Trends Remain Mixed
The new Global Bookselling Markets Report, published by the European and International Booksellers Federation, found that approximately half of the markets it monitors were on an upswing and that the other half were in decline.
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Bookstores in the Northeast Recover from Flooding
Two days after New England and the Mid-Atlantic were inundated with record rainfall that left parts of Vermont and other states flooded, booksellers in the region are recovering.
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Book Club Picks for July 2023
R.F. Kuang's publishing parody 'Yellowface' is a Reese’s Book Club pick, Thao Thai's 'Banyan Moon' gets the Read with Jenna nod, and more.
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Top 25 Overall Bestsellers: June 25–July 1, 2023
Here’s a peek at the top 25 books of the week. New titles include, at #1, yet another Colleen Hoover book—this one an updated edition of her self-published 2016 novel, 'Too Late.'
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Book Sales Continue to Slow Down in First Half of 2023
Unit sales dipped 2.7% in the first half of 2023 and were down 8.5% from the midpoint of 2021.
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South Brooklyn Bookstores Adapt to Community Needs
A growing crop of indie booksellers in the area are aiming to be multipurpose spaces for their neighborhoods.
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Despite a Colleen Hoover Reissue, Print Books Sales Fell 4.7% Last Week
Sales from a new edition of a Colleen Hoover novel were not enough to overcome huge sales racked up by Jenny Han's young adult titles last year.
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NYC Bookstore Yu and Me Crowdfunds $200K After Fire
The woman and Asian American–owned bookstore, in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, will require a total renovation over the next year due to a fire in a residential unit above its premises. It topped its goal of $150,000 overnight.
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