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Bookselling Spotlight: Zenith Bookstore
Zenith Bookstore in Duluth, Minn., sells both new and used books, and has become a community hub in a part of the city where residents never expected to have a bookstore.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 3, 2021
Diana Gabaldon has the #1 book in the country with her ninth Outlander novel, 'Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.' Plus Brandon Sanderson's latest Skyward novel, 'Cytonic,' lands at #3 on our children's fiction list, and 'The Wheel of Time' Prime Video series gets its first tie-in edition.
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Unit Sales Rose 9.7% Last Week Led by Adult Fiction
Facing difficult comparisons to last year when Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' was piling up huge sales numbers, unit sales still increased 9.7% last week over 2020 as adult fiction sales jumped 35.3%.
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Manga and YA Fuel B&N Black Friday Boom
Black Friday weekend was good for Barnes & Noble, continuing a trend of double-digit sales growth this year. The company attributed the increase to solid trade book sales through the weekend.
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Indies Enter Holidays Confident
Despite a number of concerns, many of the more than three dozen indies contacted by PW posted strong Thanksgiving weekend sales increases compared with 2019 and 2020, and even booksellers whose stores saw declines said they were cautiously optimistic about the weeks ahead.
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Indie Bookseller Panel Tackles Free Expression
As questions about freedom of speech continue to spark heated debate across the book business, the nation’s regional independent bookselling associations convened a panel on Tuesday to discuss how the issue impacts independent booksellers.
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Twin Cities Booksellers Bounce Back
The pandemic, coupled with the protests that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis last year, has transformed the Twin Cities bookselling scene in the last 20 months.
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Print Units Rose 11.7% in Mid-November
Gains in all categories led to an 11.7% increase in unit sales of print books in the week ended Nov. 13, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 22, 2021
Jocko Willink hits #10 on the hardcover fiction list this week with 'Final Spin,' Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich lands at #11 on our hardcover fiction list with her latest, 'The Sentence,' and Academy Award–nominated actor and Grammy-winning rapper Will Smith’s memoir is an instant success.
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GLIBA Holds Virtual Meeting; Members Look Forward to In-Person Gatherings
Much of the discussion during GLIBA's annual membership meeting, held virtually, centered upon upcoming in-person gatherings. GLIBA also reported a spike in new members, with 205 stores, the highest in many years.
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Print Sales Tumble in Early November
Unit sales of print books fell 17.1% in the week ended Nov. 12, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Sales Rose 11.7% Last Week
Gains in all categories led to a 11.7% increase in unit sales of print books last week over the week ended November 14, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. It was the second consecutive week of double-digit sales increases compared to 2020.
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Bookstore Sales Recovery Continued in September
Bookstore sales jumped 42.1% in September, to $881 million, over 2020 when September sales were $620 million. Through the first nine months of 2021, bookstore sales rose 38.6%
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Amazon Names 'The Lincoln Highway' Best Book of Year
'The Lincoln Highway' by Amor Towles (Viking) was named the Best Book of the Year by Amazon Books editors.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 15, 2021
Comics creator Rachel Smythe has the #5 book in the country with 'Lore Olympus, Vol. 1.' Plus YouTube science educator Philipp Dettmer lands two spots below with 'Immune,' and 'Aaron Slater, Illustrator,' the latest Questioneers book by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, tops our picture book list.
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Print Sales Jumped 17% in Early November
With all categories posting solid gains, unit sales of print books rose 17.3% in the week ended Nov. 6, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Parable
Inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parable novels, the hybrid bookstore/cultural center Parable in Tacoma, Wash., aims to be a community gathering space.
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Publishers Collaborate on Holiday Marketing Campaign
Workman Publishing Co., Abrams Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Candlewick Press, Chronicle Books, and Sourcebooks have partnered on Shop Local Forever, a consumer-focused marketing campaign to promote holiday book sales.
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Print Book Sales Jumped 17.3% Last Week
It looks like Christmas is coming early to the book industry, with unit sales of print books rising 17.3% last week over the comparable week in 2020. All major categories except juvenile nonfiction had double-digit gains over last year.
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Print Units Rose 12% at October’s End
With all categories posting increases, unit sales of print books rose 12% in the week ended Oct. 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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