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Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks 'Testaments' Embargo
A highly anticipated new book. A broken embargo. A cluster of angry booksellers. Penguin Random House has reacted to the fact that Amazon seems to have shipped copies of Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' in spite of the fact that it's on-sale-date is nearly a week away.
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Jewell to Retire as Head of SIBA
Wanda Jewell will retire as the executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance next June. A search for a successor will begin later this month.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 1.2% In Late August
Unit sales of print books rose 1.2% in the week ended Aug. 24, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 2, 2019
The #3 book in the country is ‘Thank You for My Service’ by YouTuber and five-tour Army Ranger Mat Best. Plus Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ flies to the #7 spot in the country ahead of the movie adaptation’s release, and the new novel in Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series, ‘The Last Widow,’ kills it on our hardcover fiction list.
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Diesel, A Bookstore to Add San Diego Branch
Just in time for its 30th anniversary, Diesel, A Bookstore will open a 2,200-sq.-ft. location in San Diego this November.
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New Owners Set for Writers' Workshoppe & Imprint Books
Samantha Ladwig and her partner Thom Nienow are in the process of buying the Writers' Workshoppe & Imprint Books in Port Townsend, Wash., which is currently owned by author Anna Quinn and her husband Peter Quinn.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 26, 2019
Dav Pilkey has the #1 book in the country with ‘For Whom the Ball Rolls,’ the latest entry in his Dog Man series. Plus National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ is #9 in the country, and Orange Prize winner Téa Obreht’s sophomore effort, ‘Inland,’ debuts in hardcover fiction at #12.
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Print Units Have Another Down Week in August
A big gain in the juvenile fiction category couldn’t stem the slide of weekly declines of print unit sales in August compared to last year.
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Three Bookstores Battle Local Government
In the last six months, three independent bookstores have received particularly large outpourings of support from their customers—yet all three say they were pushed to ask for help after becoming victims of state and local policies that put their businesses at risk.
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Colorado, Maryland Bookstores Get New Locations
Denver's Tattered Cover is adding a new location in the Origin Hotel in nearby Westminster, Colo. In Baltimore, Emma Snyder is moving the Ivy Bookshop, which she bought in January, two miles down the road into a church she recently acquired, with plans to expand the store's role in the local literary community.
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Amazon Responds to 'NYT' Story Questioning Its Policing of Copyright In Its Bookstore
After a story in Monday's 'New York Times' pointed to the availability of counterfeit books in Amazon's bookstore, marking the second piece in two months on the topic, Amazon said the real issue has to do with "differing copyright timing between countries."
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Indie Booksellers Celebrate First Bookstore Romance Day
More than 160 independent bookstores celebrated the first Bookstore Romance Day on August 17 with author events, book clubs, and panel discussions that emphasized a growing embrace for a genre that once received scant attention in independent bookstores.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 19, 2019
The news of Toni Morrison’s death on August 5 led to an outpouring of tributes from colleagues and admirers, and renewed focus on her body of work. Plus Ruth Ware earns her first PW starred review and the #7 spot in the country with ‘The Turn of the Key,’ and Kitten Lady Hannah Shaw debuts with ‘Tiny but Mighty.’
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Print Unit Sales Fell 1.9% in Early August
Declines in adult nonfiction and young adult fiction were deep enough to offset gains in other categories, leading to a 1.9% drop in print unit sales for the week ended Aug. 10, 2019.
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Buzz Builds for Atwood 'Handmaid's Tale' Follow-up
Author Margaret Atwood's forthcoming sequel to her bestselling novel is expected to be the big book of early fall.
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Bookstore Sales Dropped 5.1% in First Half of 2019
Bookstore sales finished a soft first half of the year, with sales falling 5.1% compared to the same period in 2018. June sales were off 4.9%.
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Indigo Sees Another Quarterly Sales Drop
Sales at Indigo, Canada's leading book retailer, continue to slide, with the company reporting a total sales decline of 6.3% for the first quarter of its current 2020 fiscal year.
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Chicagoland Booksellers Partner to Open Store
Veteran bookseller Javier Ramirez, who has worked for Chicagoland's most renowned indies in the past 25 years, is partnering with another bookseller, Mary Mollman, to open their own store in Chicago's West Loop.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 12, 2019
‘The Art of Racing in the Rain,’ Garth Stein’s canine-narrated 2008 hit, zooms onto the big screen. Plus Shari Lapena jumps to the #12 spot in hardcover fiction with ‘Someone We Know,’ and psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson sees ‘Signs’ at #18 in hardcover nonfiction.
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