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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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Print Unit Sales Fell in Mid-July
Unit sales of print books fell 3.9% in the week ended July 17, 2021, compared to the similar week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Unit Sales Fall Again
For the second week in a row, unit sales of print books were down compared to 2020. Units dropped 3.9% last week compared to the week ended July 18, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Unit Sales Fell in Early July
Unit sales of print books fell 1.3% in the week ended July 10, 2021, compared to the similar week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 19, 2021
'The Paper Palace,' Miranda Cowley Heller's debut, is the July Reese's Book Club pick and the #5 book in the country. Plus two new novels, 'Falling' and 'Fallen,' have similar titles and starred reviews, but the likeness ends there.
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May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%
Rebounding from the lows of spring 2020, bookstore sales in May soared 130% over last May, hitting $632 million.
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Print Book Sales Fell Last Week, Ending Long Winning Streak
The long run of unit sales of print books posting weekly sales gains over the comparable week in 2020 came to an end last week, with units falling 1.3% compared to the week ending July 11, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Booksellers Denounce ABA Promotion of Anti-Trans Book
The American Booksellers Association is facing withering criticism from booksellers after walking back its promotion of Abigail Shrier's anti-trans title 'Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters' to member bookstores.
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Bookselling Profile: Baker Book House
By quickly embracing social media platforms, Baker Book House, which claims to be the oldest and largest indie Christian bookstore in North America, has successfully raised its visibility far beyond its community in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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The Bestselling Books of 2021 (So Far)
The first six months of the year may have seen sales of adult fiction buoy print sales week after week, but the year's only runaway bestseller to date is a children's book.
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Print Book Sales Soar in Year's First Half
Strong fiction sales drove an 18.5% increase in print unit sales during the first six months of 2021.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 12, 2021
A pair of BookTok favorites, 'They Both Die at the End' and 'The Song of Achilles,' are among the 10 bestselling books of the week. Plus Riley Sager's 'Survive the Night' lives to have a strong opening week, and two authors tell one historical woman's story in the novel 'The Personal Librarian.'
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Fiction Titles Dominated Last Week's Bestseller List
The top 15 bestsellers last week were all fiction, led by Quentin Tarantino’s 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,' which sold more than 48,000 copies in its first week on sale. Overall, unit sales increased 4% over the week ended July 4, 2020.
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Bookshop.org Continues to See Strong Sales
With the reopening of bookstores across the U.S. to in-store customers, Bookshop.org has seen sales slip in the April-June period compared to the second quarter of 2020, but sales for the entire first half of 2021 are still up 17%.
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Print Sales Rose 6.4% at the End of June
Unit sales of print books rose 6.4% in the week ended June 26, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Quarto Group CEO Resigns
Polly Powell, CEO of Quarto Group since September 2020, has resigned. The U.K.-based publisher, which also has a large U.S. presence, will look for a successor on "both sides of the Atlantic," a Quarto executive said.
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Fiction Sales Continue to Rise
Sales of adult fiction rose 28.1% last week and young adult fiction jumped 49.6%, driving a 6.4% increase in total unit sales of print books last week over the week ended June 27, 2020.
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