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Amazon Reports Record Early Holiday Sales
Led by such categories and toys and fashion, Amazon had record sales between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. One book managed to make it onto the company's top-selling items over the period.
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New Edelweiss Tool Will Create Personalized Emails
Edelweiss360 is a bookstore-to-consumer marketing tool that will allow booksellers to create and send store-branded, personalized emails to customers based on individual purchase behavior and staff knowledge of customers.
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Bookselling Too Hard To Pass Up: New England Bookstores
Boston-area booksellers prove that pop-ups are no passing fad.
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Daunt Tweaks B&N for the Holidays
The new B&N CEO has made some merchandising changes but says the real work to refurbish the stores will start in January.
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San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy Seeks New Owner and New Location
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore must find a new owner and a new location before its lease expires in less than 60 days.
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Booksellers Offer Promos for Holiday Shopping Kickoff
Store owners from BXsellers, PW's bookstore Facebook group, are prepping special promotions for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, focusing on loyalty discounts and gift card bonuses.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 25, 2019
Bush twins Jenna and Barbara have the #5 book in the country with ‘Sisters First.’ Plus Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ hits our list for the first time in its third week on sale, and the latest incarnation of ‘Joy of Cooking’ remains a family affair.
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The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics
Technically, one could call Tough Poets, the Arlington, Mass.–based micropublisher, a self-publisher. But it has a catalog to be reckoned with.
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Publishers Continue the Battle Against Book Tariffs
Publishers are currently fighting something of a rearguard action to exclude books from tariffs that were imposed September 1, even as a December 15 deadline looms. Here's the lowdown.
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The Weekly Scorecard: November 2019
Print Unit Sales Fell 7.1% in Mid-November
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Indie Scouting Report: November 2019
In this month’s roundup of the best-reviewed BookLife titles, we highlight a Sri Lankan cookbook, a guide for
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Amazon Book Orders on the Rise
After several weeks of receiving orders from Amazon that had been significantly lower than the comparable period in 2018, publishers said orders have improved this week.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 18, 2019
Eight years after ‘The Night Circus,’ Erin Morgenstern returns with ‘The Starless Sea,’ #10 in the country. Plus Neal Shusterman concludes his Arc of a Scythe trilogy with ‘The Toll,’ and ‘I Heard You Paint Houses,’ retitled ‘The Irishman,’ hits the big and small screens.
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Print Units Post Solid Sales Gain in Early November
With both juvenile categories posting double-digit increases and a strong gain in adult nonfiction, unit sales of print books rose 5.9% in the week ended Nov. 9, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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A Soft Third Quarter for Big Publishers
All four of the large publicly held trade publishers saw sales fall in the period.
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September Bookstore Sales Fell 2.3%
With bookstore sales declining 2.3% in September compared to a year ago, sales for the first nine months of 2019 were down 5.6% compared to the same months in 2018.
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Binc Survey Finds One in Five Booksellers in Need
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation's third industry-wide survey found 22% of respondents had situations in the past two years requiring financial assistance, yet less than half of those in need asked for help.
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B&N Launches Book of the Year Award
As one of the first initiatives under the leadership of new CEO James Daunt, Barnes & Noble has announced the shortlist for a new Book of the Year award. The nominees and winner are chosen by B&N booksellers.
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Amazon Reducing Orders to Publishers
In order to deal with congestion issues at its warehouses, Amazon has been cutting book orders to publishers over the last several weeks, a move publishers say is on track to damage their holiday sales.
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The Weekly Scorecard: End of October 2019
Print units fell 3% at the end of October.
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