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This Week's Bestsellers: April 20, 2020
The #1 book in the country is ‘Magnolia Table, Vol. 2’ by Joanna Gaines, who held a shelter-in-place “book signing” on launch day. Plus Oprah Book Club pick ‘Hidden Valley Road’ by Robert Kolker lands at #5 in hardcover fiction, and Marie Kondo helps readers find the ‘Joy of Work’—at home.
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Print Unit Sales Had Double-Digit Gain Last Week
Print unit sales rose 13.7% in the week ended April 11 over the week ended April 4 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales benefited from the release of 'Magnolia Table, Volume 2' by Joanna Gaines, which sold more than 130,000 copies last week.
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Independent Bookstore Day to Host Virtual Party
Independent Bookstore Day has been rescheduled for August 29 from its original date next week. In lieu of postponing the event entirely, organizers are hosting what they call a virtual party, and are working with stores on promotions to run all next week.
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February Bookstore Sales Had Slight Gain
Bookstore sales ended a long monthly losing streak by posting a 0.8% sales increase in February over February 2019, but numbers are certain to fall again in March, when the impact of the new coronavirus on sales is reflected.
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Midwestern Booksellers Step Up Virtual Get-Togethers
The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Independent Booksellers Association are both stepping up efforts to keep members in their far-flung regions connected with weekly Zoom conference calls.
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Fundraiser Buys City Lights Time to Plan
San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore raised nearly half a million dollars on GoFundMe. The money was necessary to cover short term costs and buy time to form a viable strategic and succession plan for the future.
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Indie Bookstores Report Problems with GoFundMe Disbursements
Several indie bookstores that launched GoFundMe campaigns in March are reporting that the funds raised on that platform are not being disbursed to them as promised, despite repeated inquiries.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 13, 2020
April Read with Jenna pick ‘Valentine’ by first-time author Elizabeth Wetmore debuts at #4 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Terry McMillan’s ‘It’s Not All Downhill from Here’ lands at #13 in hardcover fiction, and though the movie’s release date is uncertain, the tie-in edition of A.J. Finn’s ‘The Woman in the Window’ arrives.
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Survey of Independent Bookstores Shows Coronavirus Toll
We surveyed nearly three dozen bookstores with more than a thousand years of bookselling experience between them to find out how the new coronavirus outbreak has altered the work that they do.
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B&N Copes
With most of its stores closed, B&N is using a skeleton crew to buy new titles, mainly for BN.com and rapidly refurbishing its closed outlets. It has also responded to a protest by employees at a New Jersey warehouse.
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Diamond Reveals New Payment Terms; Execs Take Pay Cut
Diamond Distributors founder Steve Geppi outlined the terms under which the distributor of comics, graphic novels, and prose books would resume payments to publishers and other vendors.
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Bay Area Booksellers Get Virtual Boost
#WeLoveBookstores, a slate of virtual literary events to support Bay Area independent bookstores during the Covid-19 crisis, will kick off April 8.
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B&NE Furloughs College Store Employees
After closing most of its college campus stores, Barnes & Noble Education has furloughed "the majority of the [Barnes & Noble College] workforce and a select number of employees from the company’s other segments,” the company said in a memo.
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Libro.fm to Hire 10 Unemployed Booksellers
Libro.fm is hiring 10 booksellers from the ranks of those who were laid off due to the new coronavirus crisis as part of a special month-long project.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 6, 2020
A 2014 picture book with the timely topic of patience returns Mo Willems to our list. Plus Broken Earth series author N.K. Jemisin launches a new trilogy with ‘The City We Became,’ and ‘Station Eleven’ author Emily St. John Mantel checks in with ‘The Glass Hotel.’
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Print Unit Sales Dropped 13.5% in Mid-March
Steep drops in both adult segments led to a 13.5% decline in print unit sales in the week ended Mar. 28, 2020, compared to the similar week in 2019, at outlets the report to NPD BookScan.
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Book Publication Date Changes Due to Covid-19 Pandemic
As part of our ongoing Covid-19 coverage, 'PW' is tracking book publication dates that are changing as a result of the pandemic.
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In Mexico, PRHGE Prioritizes Digital as Coronavirus Hits
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Mexico has shifted to teleworking and added new digital workflows, and is offering online classes prioritizing the sales of e-books, much for the first time.
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James Patterson Leads Group Seeking to Raise Millions for Bookstores
Author James Patterson is spearheading a group that includes Reese Witherspoon, Reese’s Book Club, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and the American Booksellers Association in an effort to raise millions of dollars to help save independent bookstores.
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