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Sales Rose 5.2% In Week Ended Dec. 19
In the last full shopping week before Christmas, unit sales of print books rose 5.2% over the week ended December 12 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The two adult categories led the sales gain.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 21, 2020
Maggie O’Farrell’s much-lauded ‘Hamnet’ debuts on our hardcover nonfiction list. Plus James Patterson remembers ‘The Last Days of John Lennon,’ and Crown closes out the year with a hat trick.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 10.5% In Mid-December
With gains across all categories, unit sales of print books rose 10.5% in the week ended Dec. 12, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Many Bookstores Still Raising Cash on GoFundMe
A number of bookstores across the United States are still relying on GoFundMe to keep afloat during a catastrophic year.
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Print Book Sales Rose 16.9% Last Week
With gains across all categories, unit sales of print books rose 16.9% last week over the week ended December 5. Adult nonfiction and juvenile nonfiction led the way with increases of 19.7% and 19.5%, respectively.
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Bookstore Sales Post Another Decline in October
Bookstore sales fell 28.8% in October compared to October 2019, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. October was the second consecutive month bookstore sales fell by roughly 28% compared to 2019.
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Denver Indie Bookstore Launches BookBar Press with Debut Release
Independent Denver bookstore BookBar has launched its new publishing division, BookBar Press, with the publication of an anthology of micro-plays written by area playwrights.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 14, 2020
With ‘A Sky Beyond the Storm,’ Sabaa Tahir concludes the tetralogy she began with ‘An Ember in the Ashes.’ Plus Steven Rinella of Netflix’s ‘MeatEater’ returns with lessons in wilderness skills and survival, and book club picks from ‘GMA’ and Reese Witherspoon land on our trade paperback list.
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Black Booksellers Denounce Tattered Cover Announcement
Black booksellers are offended and angered by the decision of Tattered Cover's new owners to call the store the country’s largest Black-owned bookstore, which they say appears to be little more than a branding opportunity.
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Bookshop Santa Cruz Employees Ask Owner to Recognize Union
A committee made up of booksellers and non-managerial staff at Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., has sent a letter to store owner Casey Coonerty Protti asking her to voluntarily recognize their joining with the Communication Workers of America Local 9423.
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Print Unit Sales Soared Last Week
Holiday book buying kicked into high gear last week, with unit sales of print books jumping 44.3% over the week ended November 29, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore Sold to Two Entrepreneurs
The Mile-High City institution, which has been owned by Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan since 2015, has been sold to two entrepreneurs and Denver natives, Kwame Spearman and David Back, and is now arguably the largest Black-owned bookstore in the U.S.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 7, 2020
Ernest Cline has the #2 book in the country with 'Ready Player Two.' Plus Charles Yu's 'Interior Chinatown,' winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, debuts in trade paperback, and YA fantasy author Holly Black's latest alights at #5 on our children’s fiction list.
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Print Unit Sale Rose 8.7% At the End of November
Double-digit gains in the adult categories helped boost print unit sales 8.7% in the week ended Nov. 28, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Unit Sales Slipped 1.6% Last Week
Following blockbuster sales of 'A Promised Land" in the week ended November 21, print unit sales dipped 1.6% last week. Barack Obama's memoir once again was the top seller by a wide margin last week, but sales amounted to about half of those in its debut week.
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Booksellers See Subdued In-Store Holiday Sales, Online Eruption
Booksellers reported a significant drop in customer traffic and a commensurate drop in sales, but online orders were way up, forcing bookstores to adapt. Barack Obama's memoir and Jeff Kinney's latest were the most popular titles over the Thanksgiving weekend at stores surveyed by 'PW.'
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'A Promised Land' Drove Big Weekly Sales Gain
Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' sold nearly 835,000 copies at outlets that report to BookScan in its first week on sale, leading to a 14.5% sales increase for the week ended November 21.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 23, 2020
Fox Sports analyst Emmanuel Acho invites white readers to have ‘Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,’ #5 in hardcover nonfiction. Plus Anthony Horowitz returns with ‘Moonflower Murders,’ and ‘This Is Your Time’ by Ruby Bridges joins other activist-minded titles on our picture book list.
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Print Unit Sales Jump in Mid-November
With all categories posting gains of at least 11%, unit sales of print books jumped 19.5% in the week ended Nov. 14, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Has the Holiday Shopping Surge Started? Book Sales Say Yes
Unit sales of print books increased 18.3% last week, an indication that the early shopping surge that retailers have been hoping for may be taking place.
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