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This Week's Bestsellers: January 16, 2023
Holly Black has the #6 book in the country with the YA high fantasy 'The Stolen Heir.' Plus adult romance author Talia Hibbert makes the move to YA with 'Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute,' and January book club picks hit the bestseller lists.
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Romance Books Were Hot in 2022
2022 was a tale of two categories when it came to sales of adult books, with romance novels the runaway hit.
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Print Book Sales Start 2023 Flat with 2022
Unit sales of print books last week were even with the week ended January 8, 2022 with higher fiction sales offset by lower sales of nonfiction books.
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Book Club Picks for January 2023
Amerie and 'GMA' select the latest novel by Deepti Kapoor, B&N and 'Good Housekeeping' spotlight Parini Shroff's debut, and more.
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Colleen Hoover Was Queen of 2022's Bestseller List
It is something of an understatement to say that Hoover dominated the 2022 overall bestsellers list: she wrote the the three topselling books of the year, and her novels sold a combined 14.3 million print copies.
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Saluting Tattered Cover Founder Joyce Meskis
Former Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis is being remembered not only as a pioneer in bookselling circles but also a staunch supporter of the First Amendment.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 9, 2023
Three editions of the Final Report of the January 6 Select Committee hit the market, and our trade paperback list. Plus Ana Huang tells Twisted tales, and resolution-ready books resonate with readers.
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Barnes & Noble to Host Inaugural BookTok Festival
The bookstore chain has announced the first-ever BookTok Festival will be held at its flagship store in New York City's Union Square on February 4.
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Big Bad Wolf’s Big Plans
As the cofounder of BookXcess and Big Bad Wolf, Andrew Yap is the most powerful bookseller you likely don’t know.
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Print Book Sales Rose 10% Before Christmas
Helped by an extra Saturday of sales compared to 2021, unit sales of print books rose 10% the week before Christmas over the week ended December 25, 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. All six major categories posted increases.
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Denver Bookseller Joyce Meskis Dies at 80
Joyce Meskis, the long-time owner of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, has died. She was 80 years old. Meskis was known as an innovative indie bookseller and a champion of free speech.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 6.4% Last Week
Unit sales of print books rose 15.5% last week over the previous week, but were still down 6.4% from the comparable week last year at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Booksellers, Friends Raise Money for Ukraine
Mitchell Kaplan, owner of the Books & Books bookstore chain in Miami, has launched HUBB — Helping Ukrainian Books and Booksellers. Together with a group of literary friends and booksellers, HUBB is sending its first grant of $10,000 this week.
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Print Sales Dipped 4.1% in Early December
Unit sales of print books fell 4.1% in the week ended Dec. 10, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 19, 2022
The #6 book in the country is the trivia title 'Interesting Facts for Curious Minds.' Plus Cormac McCarthy completes the Passenger duology with 'Stella Maris,' and retired Navy SEAL David Goggins explains why he's 'Never Finished.'
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Print Book Sales Show Improvement, But Still Fell Last Week
Unit sales of print books had one of their best weeks of the year last week, but it wasn’t quite enough to top sales from a year ago. As a result, unit sales fell 4.1%, marking one of the smallest declines this fall.
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Bookstore Sales Slipped in October
Bookstore sales fell 2.9% in October compared to 2021, falling to $636 million from $655 million last year, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Amazon to End Print Textbook Rentals, Overhaul Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions
Amazon is discontinuing its print textbook rental program, and will phase out print and digital magazine and newspaper subscriptions as well, though some magazines and newspapers will remain available through Kindle Unlimited.
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Holiday Book Sales Trail 2021
Unit sales or print books fell 17.3% in the week ended December 3, 2022, from the week ended December 4, 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The sales total represented an increase over the previous week in 2021, but it is becoming clear that the holidays will not give a significant boost over seasonal sales in 2021. Unit sales through the week ended December 3, 2022, were down 6.6% compared to a year ago, but up 12% from 2019.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 12, 2022
The week's big debuts include Dav Pilkey's fourth Cat Kid Comic Club book and Louise Penny's 18th Chief Insp. Gamache novel. Plus A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series author Holly Jackson writes her first standalone YA thriller.
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