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Waterstones Shows Profit, But B&N Is a ‘Big Mess’
In the year ended April 27, 2019, sales and profits rose at Waterstones, but over the Christmas holiday season, sales at Barnes & Noble "were awful," James Daunt, CEO of B&N and Waterstones, told the U.K. press.
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B&N, PRH Cancel Diverse Editions Promotion
Backlash against a Black History Month promotion from Barnes & Noble and Penguin Random House that saw racially and ethnically diverse covers put on classic books by mostly white authors led to its cancellation.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 3, 2020
‘A Very Stable Genius,’ a critique of the Trump presidency, is the #1 book in the country. Plus Isabel Allende floats onto the hardcover fiction list with ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ and ‘El Traidor,’ a Spanish-language true crime title, debuts on our trade paper list.
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ABA Added 111 Stores in 2019
The American Booksellers Association added 111 new member bookstores last year. In addition, the ABA indicated that 25 stores were sold to new owners last year.
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Bookstores, Flatiron Cancel Cummins Appearances for 'American Dirt'
Citing customer concerns and demands on social media to cancel, Left Bank Books in St. Louis called off an offsite author event featuring Jeanine Cummins speaking about 'American Dirt' less than 24 hours before it was set to start on Sunday. Shortly after, Flatiron canceled events set for two California stores, and Vroman's has also canceled its events with Cummins.
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WI15: Treeline Readies Targeted E-Marketing Product for Indies
Above the Treeline is in beta for a two-pronged tool to increase revenue for indies. With Edelweiss360 booksellers will be able to do targeted e-marketing mailings a lot more quickly and to view their success. A second component will enable them to sell direct to customers where they are via a mobile-friendly branded website.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 27, 2020
Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink has the #1 book in the country with ‘Leadership Strategy and Tactics.’ Plus Bryan Stevenson’s ‘Just Mercy,’ recently adapted for film, jumps to #10 in the country, and the NYPL’s all-time most checked out title, ‘The Snowy Day’ by Ezra Jack Keats, has its best sales week in years.
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Finalists Named for 2020 PW Bookstore of the Year
This year's shortlist of five bookstores includes a number of stores with multiple locations and with years of bookselling experience, from both coasts and as far south as Texas.
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WI15: ABA Town Hall Focuses On Perennial Concerns
The Town Hall meeting at Winter Institute addressed several of the perennial big issues vexing booksellers: finding a solution for health insurance, the increasingly slim margins on books, and more.
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WI15: Cummins Speaks, Booksellers Divided on 'American Dirt'
Jeanine Cummins, the author of 'American Dirt,' a novel about the immigration experience that is both being celebrated and denigrated in media outlets and on social media, defended her novel to a packed room of booksellers at WI15.
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WI15: Prof Says Community Is Key to Bookstore Resurgence
Harvard Business School professor Ryan Raffaelli gave the keynote speech at Winter Institute 15, identifying the fostering of community as the key to the resurgence in indie bookselling.
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WI15: ABA Session Discusses Antitrust Options Against Amazon
The American Booksellers Association hosted a symposium in Washington, D.C., featuring a quartet of speakers addressing the perils of Amazon’s dominance in online retailing and what might be done to level the playing field.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 20, 2020
Novelist Ann Napolitano has the #6 book in the country with ‘Dear Edward,’ January’s Read with Jenna pick. Plus ‘You Were Born for This’ by astrologer Chani Nicholas debuts at #7 in the country, and YA thriller author Karen M. McManus returns with ‘One of Us Is Next.'
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Breaking Down the Bestsellers of 2019
Getting on the bestseller list in 2019 wasn't a problem for the year's hottest titles—but staying on it was.
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Bookbar Launches ReadTribe to Match Readers, Book Clubs
Nicole Sullivan, the owner of Bookbar in Denver, has launched ReadTribe, a website that is designed to match individual readers with book clubs that are affiliated with indie bookstores.
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November Bookstore Sales Fell 7.3%
November bookstore sales took a pretty big hit, falling 7.3% compared to November 2018, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Booksellers Launch Certification Program
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, which represents booksellers from the mid-Atlantic and New York State, will offer the certification program for booksellers nationwide.
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HMH Exec Buys Venerable Bookstore
Hannah Harlow, executive director of marketing of general interest books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has bought the Book Shop of Beverly Farms in Beverly, Mass., together with her brother.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 13, 2020
Food blogger Alex Snodgrass has the #2 book in the country with the Whole30-endorsed cookbook ‘The Defined Dish.’ Plus Kiley Reid debuts with the book-club favorite ‘Such a Fun Age,’ and Andrzej Sapkowski’s ‘The Witcher’ books get a boost from the new Netflix series.
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‘Crawdads’ Takes the Triple Crown
After selling the most print books in 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' also sold the most e-books and audiobooks, and in impressive fashion.
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