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Book Club Picks for March 2022
Barnes & Noble, 'Good Morning America,' and other big clubs look toward the summer and believe in love in this month's book club picks.
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PLA & Pacific Northwest Spotlight: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Stay Strong
Known for store-specific, unique curation, Pacific Northwest bookstores are flavored by their local environs.
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Unit Sales of Print Books Fell 8.3% in Early March
Unit sales of print books fell 8.3% in the week ended Mar. 12, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 21, 2021
Dolly Parton and James Patterson have the #1 book in the country with 'Run, Rose, Run." Plus 'The Wok' by J. Kenji López-Alt is #3 in the country, and another cookbook, 'Jane Austen's Table' by Robert Tuesley Anderson, serves up shortbreads and sensibility.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 8.3% Last Week
With juvenile sales falling 13% and adult nonfiction dropping 8.6%, print unit sales fell 8.3% last week at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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January Bookstore Sales Rose 11.5% in 2022
January bookstore sales increased to $914 million in 2022, but were 7.7% below bookstore sales in January 2020.
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PW Bookstore, Rep Finalists Announced
The five bookstore finalists and five sales rep finalists have been announced in PW's annual award program. Winners will be announced at PW's U.S. Book Show set for May 23-26.
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Print Sales Fell 16.2% in Early March
Unit sales of print books dropped 16.2% in the week ended Mar. 5, 2022, from the comparable week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Mitzi’s Books
We talk with Mary Ackland, retail manager of Mitzi’s Books in Rapid City, S.Dak.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 14, 2022
Tessa Bailey lands at #3 on our trade paperback list with her latest rom-com, 'Hook, Line, and Sinker." Plus V.E. Schwab's YA fantasy novel 'Gallant' is #2 on our children's fiction list, and a trio of March book club picks claim their spots on our hardcover fiction list.
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Snow Days 2022: Booksellers Use Their Superpower in Cultural War
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys set the tone for the final afternoon of the ABA's new virtual conference for indie booksellers when she urged them to tap into their superpower: the ability to fight back against book bannings.
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Snow Days 2022: Four Novelists Expand Consciousness
Three authors joined author/moderator Emma Straub in a thought-provoking keynote panel, “Storytelling in the Cultural Moment,” to begin the third day of ABA's Snow Days online conference.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 16% Last Week
A year ago, sales of Dr. Seuss titles were soaring following the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to stop publishing some older Seuss titles. With no such controversy this year, unit sales of print books fell 16.2% last week from a year ago.
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Snow Days 2022: Unions Are About Dignity, Respect
A pair of labor law experts explained the basics of unions and collective bargaining to ABA members during the Snow Days virtual conference replacing Winter Institute. It's about dignity and respect, they told booksellers.
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Snow Days 2022: Booksellers Time Travel to 2032, Return Before Lunch
In the first event of ABA's Snow Days conference, game designer Jane McGonigal led more than 500 participants in a few rounds of “mental time travel,” in which she asked listeners, among other things, to peer 10 years ahead to everyone's collective future in bookselling,
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Barnes & Noble's 'Solid' 2021
After seeing growth last year, B&N CEO James Daunt says the trajectory has changed for America's largest bricks-and-mortar bookseller.
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Amazon to Close All Bookstores
After opening its first bookstore with much fanfare in November 2015, Amazon is closing all of its 24 physical bookstores as well as its 4-star and pop-up stores, which carry a mix of items, including some books.
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Cincinnati's Blue Manatee Loses Lease, Will Close
The Blue Manatee Literacy Project announced that the children's bookstore is closing on March 13.
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U.K. Waterstones Buys Blackwell's
Waterstones, the U.K. bookstore chain owned and overseen by the same team—Elliott Advisors and James Daunt—that runs Barnes & Noble has acquired Blackwell's that operates 18 U.K. bookstores.
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New ABA Board Officers Outline Priorities, Goals
American Booksellers Association board president Christine Onorati and co-v-ps Kelly Estep and Angela María Spring have laid out the organization's priorities and goals for ABA membership.