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CI2023: Children's Booksellers and Creators Express Urgency and Purpose
The final day of CI2023 was packed with a mix of educational sessions and author presentations—including a conversation with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges—and closed on an exuberant note with karaoke, bookseller-style.
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Barnes & Noble Flagship Store in NYC Unionizes
The third Barnes & Noble store to unionize, the bookstore workers voted 97% in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, citing safety issues, substandard pay and lack of workplace structure.
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Indigo Loses Reisman, Four Board Members
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's dominant bookstore chain, announced founder Heather Reisman will retire in August; simultaneously, four board members resigned with one citing a loss of confidence in the board and mistreatment.
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CI2023: Trends in the Children’s Book Market
Circana's Brenna Connor assessed the state of the children’s book market, speaking about transformations, troubles, and growth opportunities across the children’s, middle grade, and YA sectors.
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Book Club Picks for June 2023
The latest novels by R.F. Kuang, Steven Rowley, and Emma Törzs are among this month’s selections by the nation’s biggest book clubs.
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CI2023: Children's Institute Welcomes New Booksellers
Children's Institute brought together more than 350 booksellers to Milwaukee this week, with 70% of attendees taking part in the conference for the first time; speakers celebrated indie booksellers while also suggesting that they tweak their models in order to remain sustainable.
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This Week's Bestsellers: June 5, 2023
Regional chart-toppers include Nora Roberts's latest, 'Identity,' and Abraham Verghese's 'The Covenant of Water,' which enjoyed its best sales since its May 2 release. Plus the movie adaption of David Grann's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is one step closer to release.
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Print Book Sales Fell 5.5% Last Week
More softness in all categories except adult fiction and the lack of big new titles combined to drop unit sales of print books 5.5% last week compared to the week ended May 28, 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Books Inc. Builds a Bridge to Book Fairs
Books Inc., the Bay Area's oldest independent bookstore sporting 11 locations, will operate two book fair models—one traditional, one designed for underserved schools—through its new literary nonprofit, the Reading Bridge.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 29, 2023
A new book skewers the publishing industry's race issues, the author of 'Eragon' returns to science fiction, and two new nonfiction titles take an alternate view of history on this week's bestseller list.
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ABA Meetings Highlight Membership Growth, Strategic Plans
During its annual meeting and community forum, ABA leaders pointed to steady growth in membership over the last three years and outlined plans to deal with new issues, including book bans.
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Workers at Park Slope B&N File for Union Election; Hadley, Mass. Store Votes for Union
Barnes & Noble workers at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, store filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on May 25, making them the third B&N store to do so in less than two months. On the same day, workers at B&N in Hadley, Mass., unanimously voted to unionize.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 5.7% Last Week
With only the adult fiction category posting an increase, unit sales of print books fell 5.7% last week compared to May 21, 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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U.S. Book Show: B&N CEO Says Chain Is in Midst of Significant Change
As Barnes & Noble continues to put its troubled past behind it, CEO James Daunt outlined the "process of change" at the company, which includes renovating stores to make them more appealing, empowering employees, adding sidelines, and renewing the browsing experience both offline and on.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 22, 2023
'The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece' by actor and debut novelist Tom Hanks is the #6 book in the country. Plus two novels win the 2023 Pulitzer for fiction, and both get a boost on our lists.
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Expanding the Reimagining Bookstores Campaign
A cornerstone of the Reimagining Bookstores campaign is encouraging booksellers to rethink “outdated” frameworks for maximizing profits and instead emphasizing bookstores’ social value—and now, organizers say, is the time to double down on that.
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With a Boost from Adult Fiction, Print Book Sales Rose 1.3% Last Week
A combination of a 13.1% increase in the adult fiction category and flat sales in adult nonfiction was enough to lift unit sales of print books up 1.3% last week over the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Booksellers Advocate for Trans/Nonbinary Employees, Denounce Anti-Trans Legislation
In response to the rise in anti-trans legislation, SIBA sponsored a virtual panel discussing how booksellers can support their trans and nonbinary employees, and be good allies in general.
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Bookstore Sales Rose 11.9% in First Quarter
Three months of double-digit increases resulted in bookstore sales rising to $2.07 billion in the first quarter of 2023, from $1.83 billion in the first period of 2022.
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Rutgers University's Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Unionize
The workers at B&N College Booksellers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have voted unanimously to unionize.
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