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WI16: Indies Look Back While Charting the Future
Winter Institute 16 kicked off yesterday as a virtual gathering of booksellers. Inspired by such high wattage speakers as Barack Obama and Amanda Gorman, booksellers celebrated their past while charting their future.
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Print Units Have Another Big Sales Week
For the week ended February 13, 2021, unit sales of print books increased 21.3% over the week ended February 15, 2020, at outlets that report to BookScan. It was the second consecutive week that unit sales rose by more than 20% over the comparable week last year.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 28.3% in 2020
Bookstore sales fell 15.2% in December, the smallest monthly decline since February, but sales fell 28.3% for the year, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 15, 2021
Kristin Hannah has the #1 book in the country with ‘The Four Winds.’ Plus February book club picks include a pair of bestsellers, and manga makes its presence known on our lists.
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Literati Gets Big Money for Book Boxes
The Austin, Tex.–based book box subscription service has pulled in more than $50 million recently. Here's what's happening.
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New Releases Spark Another Big Book Sales Week
Unit sales of print books jumped 25.7% last week over the first week in February 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Kristin Hannah's 'The Four Winds' was the #1 title in the week, selling more than 115,000 copies.
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Villarosa Joins Tattered Cover to Curate BIPOC Books
Clara Villarosa, the founder of the Hue-Man Experience in Denver, who also at one time was a partner in the Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe in New York City, will curate BIPOC books for the Tattered Cover Bookstore.
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Store Closures Challenged Indigo in Q3
Canada' Indigo Books and Music saw a 5% drop in revenue, to C$365.4 million, for the quarter ended December 26, compared with the same period last year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 8, 2021
‘Just as I Am,’ which published two days before author Cicely Tyson died at age 96, is the #1 book in the country. Plus Caldecott Medal winner ‘We Are Water Protectors’ debuts on our picture book list, and Brigid Kemmerer concludes her Cursebreaker YA trilogy with ‘A Vow So Bold and Deadly.’
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Print Sales Rose 19.5% at the End of January
With all major categories posting double-digit gains, unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended Jan. 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Indie Bookstores Embrace E-Commerce... and It Pays Off
After a year spent pivoting out of necessity, booksellers now see online sales as a permanent part of their business model.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books
At Philadelphia’s Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books, bookstore manager Evisa Gallman sees a long future for herself in bookselling.
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WI16: Keynote Conversations
Keynote discussions look at what’s ahead for bookselling and literature.
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WI16: Black Bookselling in 2021
Four black store owners reflect on how their businesses are changing.
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WI16: Bookstores Emphasize Community
Though the “pandemic bookstores” that have opened since fall vary in size and focus, they share a commitment to their cities and towns and optimism about the future of bookselling.
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Sales of Print Books End January on High Note
Unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended January 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to BookScan. For the month of January, print unit sales were 21.3% higher than January 2020.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 1, 2021
Titles related to the new administration, and especially the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris, made strong showings on our lists. Plus new releases include ‘Winterkeep,’ Kristin Cashore’s long-awaited return to the Graceling Realm.
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A Year for the (Record) Books in Publishing
Unit sales hit an all-time high at BookScan in 2020, which the service said could be attributed to a combination of strong sales of both print books and e-books.
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Bookselling Spotlight: The Writer’s Block
Taking a look at the only independent bookstore in southern Nevada and one of only two indies in the state focused on selling new books.
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