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Bookselling Profile: Hipocampo Children’s Books
In the months since Hipocampo Children’s Books has reopened to in-person browsing, a group of pre-teens and teens have made the space a regular stop on their wanderings through the Rochester, N.Y., neighborhood where it opened two years ago.
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Print Book Sales Rose 2.3% Last Week
Despite the blockbuster release of 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' by Suzanne Collins at this time last year, unit sales of print books managed to rise 2.3% last week over the week ended May 23, 2020.
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Booksellers Grapple with a Host of Issues at Annual Meeting, Town Hall
The ABA held its second virtual annual meeting Thursday, followed by a Town Hall. While some booksellers expressed concerns over publisher discounts and plans by Ingram to ship all IPS titles from a single warehouse, others focused on the future of in-person events.
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Eso Won and Crockett Named PW’s Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year
Publishers Weekly has named the L.A.-based indie bookstore Eso Won Books its Bookstore of the Year, and Simon & Schuster sales rep Toi Crockett has been named PW Sales Rep of the Year. The announcement was made at the inaugural U.S. Book Show.
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CALIBA's Crosby Leaving for Utah Bookstore
Calvin Crosby, executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, has purchased Betsy Burton's majority share of The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City and will be relocating. Burton is retiring this summer.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 24, 2021
Stacey Abrams has the #7 book in the country with 'While Justice Sleeps.' Plus Jennifer Weiner and Emily Henry have new beach-bag bringalongs, and a trio of memoirs representing three generations of celebrity make strong debuts.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 8.8% in Mid-May
Unit sales of print books rose 8.8% in the week ended May 15, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Booksellers to CDC: In My Store, You Mask Up
Unclear. Unhelpful. Irrelevant. That's what booksellers are calling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidelines on mask-wearing.
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Print Book Sales Rose 8.8% Last Week
Another good performance by the adult fiction category helped to drive up unit sales of print books by 8.8% last week over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Fiction sales increased 19% last week.
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CALIBA Creates Community for BIPOC Bookstores
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance has established the Mosaic Community, a new group for BIPOC store owners and booksellers.
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Booksellers Unionize at Los Angeles's Skylight Books
Booksellers at the Los Angeles independent bookstores Skylight Books announced Tuesday that they have unionized.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Prairie Lights
For decades Prairie Lights has been the hub of Iowa’s vibrant literary scene, hosting the author reading series Live from Prairie Lights for the past 20 years.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 10.1% in Early May
In the week ended May 8, 2021, unit sales of print books rose 10.1% over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 17, 2021
'The Martian' author Andy Weir has the #10 book in the country with 'Project Hail Mary.' Plus a trio of book club picks land on our hardcover fiction list, and Christina Hunger explains canine communications in 'How Stella Learned to Talk.'
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PW Bookstore of the Year Finalist: Word Up Community Bookshop/ Librería Comunitaria
For close to a decade, Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria in New York City has redefined what bookselling can look like.
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PW Bookstore of the Year Finalist: Seminary Co-op Bookstores
The Seminary Co-op, founded by five students in 1961 in the Chicago Theological Seminary’s basement as a member-owned cooperative, has become a cultural institution with an impact extending far beyond the Windy City.
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PW Bookstore of the Year Finalist: MahoganyBooks
In the nearly four years since it opened, Mahogany has garnered national recognition for its emphasis that books by Black authors matter.
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PW Bookstore of the Year Finalist: Eso Won Books
"Eso Won has long been one of the country’s preeminent Black-owned bookstores and, of course, was indispensable this past year,” noted Ellen Adler, publisher of the New Press.
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PW Bookstore of the Year Finalist: Charis Books & More
At a time when so many have rallied in support of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, Charis Books & More in Decatur, Ga.,is filling a niche in today’s bookselling landscape.
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Bookstore Sales Jumped 34.7% in March
March bookstore sales rose 34.7% over a year ago, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Last March was the first month in which bookstore sales were impacted by pandemic-induced lockdowns.
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