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This Week's Bestsellers: August 23, 2021
Tucker Carlson's latest, 'The Long Slide,' is #3 in the country. Plus four of the 10 bestselling books of the week are backlist TikTok favorites, and a biography of NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo takes its shot.
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Saturday Is Bookstore Romance Day
Saturday, August 21, is Bookstore Romance Day. More than 250 bookstores around the country are participating, as well as Bookshop.org, and 14 virtual events and panels will take place over the weekend.
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Print Book Sales Dipped Last Week
While print unit sales improved last week over the week ended August 7, 2021, they still fell 1.3% compared to a year ago, as adult fiction remained the only category to post a meaningful increase.
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Soaring June Sales Boost 2021 First Half Bookstore Sales
Bookstore sales skyrocketed 81.1% in June over a year ago, and finished the first half of 2021 with a 30% increase over the first six months of 2020.
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Greenlight Bookstores in Brooklyn Unionize
A total of 39 employees at two locations of Greenlight Bookstore and one location of Yours Truly, Brooklyn, a stationery store, all located in Brooklyn, N.Y., have voted to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union.
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Print Sales Down Again in Early August
Unit sales of print books fell 8% in the week ended Aug. 7, 2021, compared to a year ago, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Profile: Brazos Bookstore
Brazos was established in 1974 by Karl Killian primarily as an art and architecture bookstore. Through his efforts, it developed a reputation as a literary haven in Houston.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 16, 2021
Among the hardcover fiction debuts are two August book club picks that delve into thorny relationships between women. Plus 'Black Boy Joy,' which our starred review called a "luminous middle grade anthology," lands on our children's fiction list, and manga continues its march toward bestseller dominance.
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Who's Buying All These New Trump Books, Anyway?
There has been lots of media buzz around the latest wave of books about the Trump administration. But how are they selling compared to yesterday's hits?
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Print Book Sales Fell 8% Last Week
Faced with tough comparisons a year ago—Stephenie Meyer's 'Midnight Sun' sold about 527,000 copies last year at this time—unit sales of print books fell 8% last week compared to the week ended August 8, 2020.
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ABA Issues Findings Following July Member Backlash
The American Booksellers Association has released, in a letter to members from CEO Allison Hill, the findings of an internal review after two July incidents led to backlash from members.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 9, 2021
Colleen Hoover’s 'It Ends with Us,' a 2016 publication and certified #BookTok hit, is the #4 book in the country. Plus 'Great British Baking Show' winner Nadiya Hussain serves up her latest, 'Nadiya Bakes,' and Shari Lapena drops another domestic thriller.
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Print Sales End July on a Down Note
Unit sales of print books dipped 1.7% in the week ended July 31, 2021, compared to the week ended Aug. 1, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Sales Fell 1.7% Last Week
Unit sales fell in all nonfiction categories last week, offsetting another week of increases in adult fiction and resulting in a 1.7% decline from the week ended August 1, 2020.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 4.9% in Late July
With sales in nonfiction categories all falling again, unit sales of print books declined 4.9% overall in the week ended July 24, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 02, 2021
Debuting at #2 in hardcover nonfiction and #2 overall is I Alone Can Fix it by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
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Declines in Nonfiction Dropped Print Book Sales Last Week
With sales in nonfiction categories all falling again, unit sales of print books declined 4.9% last week compared to the week ended July 25, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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CALIBA Names New Co-executive Directors
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance announced that Ann Seaton, CALIBA’s former director of operations, and Kristin Rasmussen, general manager of {pages} a bookstore in Manhattan Beach, have been appointed co-executive directors of the association.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 26, 2021
Fox News host Mark R. Levin has the #1 book in the country with 'American Marxism,' artist Amber Share debuts at #8 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'Subpar Parks,' and more.
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Bookselling Profile: Reads & Company
Jason Hafer was forced to close the bookstore he opened in Phoenixville, Pa., in 2011. In May 2019, Hafer and Robb Cadigan opened Reads & Company in the same location.
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