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Units Dip 1.8% at the Start Of August
A 3.3% increase in juvenile fiction print unit sales in the week ended Aug. 3, 2019, compared to the similar week last year, was not enough to offset declines in the other major categories, leading to a 1.8% drop overall, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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800-CEO-Read Adopts New Name
Milwaukee-based 800-CEO-READ, which specializes in bulk book sales, has changed its name to Porchlight Book Company to reflect its expansion beyond selling only business books.
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Booksellers Purchase Cabot St. Books
Booksellers Meg Wasmer and Julie Karaganis have purchased Cabot St. Books & Cards in Beverly, Mass., and will rename the store Copper Dog Books.
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Filling the B&T-Shaped Gap
Various industry members are working to ensure that B&T’s withdrawal from trade wholesaling will not disrupt the fall selling season.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers June 2019
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 5, 2019
The 2018 back-to-school picture book ‘We Don’t Eat Our Classmates’ is the #8 book in the country, thanks to some timely promotion. Plus Laura Lippman’s latest Baltimore crime novel, ‘Lady in the Lake,’ stirs up local interest, and ‘Ask Again, Yes’ is the summer reading pick of ‘The Tonight Show.’
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An American Bookseller's Summer in Rome
John Francisconi, the general manager of Bank Square Books in Mystic, Conn., is finishing up a three-week residency at Otherwise Bookshop in Rome and reflects on the experience for PW.
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Print Units Were Down 3% at End of July
Unit sales of print books fell 3% in the week ended July 27, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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‘Crawdads’ Tops One Million Print Sales In 2019
Delia Owens’s 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is the feel-good publishing story of the year. This is how it got there.
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Unit Sales Soft in Mid-July, Dropping 4.1%
With all categories posting declines, overall unit sales of print books fell 4.1% in the week ended July 20, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New ABA Board President Has a Full Agenda
Jamie Fiocco, owner and general manager of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, N.C., is prepared to expand the focus of the American Booksellers Association as its new president.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 29, 2019
Colson Whitehead has the #4 book in the country with ‘The Nickel Boys,’ his follow-up to ‘The Underground Railroad.’ Plus the second Adventure Zone graphic novels debuts on our trade paper and hardcover lists, and ‘Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass’ lands at #8 in hardcover nonfiction seven months after publication.
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NACS Has New CEO and Plans More Changes
The National Association of College Stores is changing leadership in the face of financial losses for the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2019, planning to exit college textbook distribution, and expecting layoffs.
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Bookselling Groups Ready Green Initiatives
The U.K.'s Booksellers Association is working with the ABA and the Australian Bookseller Association to develop a manifesto detailing environmentally friendly practices for the book business.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 22, 2019
Buzzed about crime novelist Adrian McKinty debuts at #10 in hardcover fiction with ‘The Chain.’ Plus Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’ draws avid attention, and a pair of baseball titles swing for the fences.
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#BookstoresAgainstBorders Still Going Strong, $100,000 Raised to Date
#BookstoresAgainstBorders, the book world's fundraising campaign for an organization that assists immigrants to the U.S. who have been incarcerated at the border, has raised more than $100,000 in about two weeks.
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Bookstore Sales Dipped in May
Bookstore sales fell 0.6% in May compared to May 2018, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 15, 2019
Mo Willems has the #5 book in the country with 'The Pigeon Has to Go to School!' Plus we look at books that got a boost around the July 4 holiday, and notable debuts of the week.
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B&N Sale Moves Closer to Completion
B&N issued a final tender offer to its shareholders for an acquisition bid from Elliott Capital Advisors in documents filed with the SEC that also offered a detailed look at the acquisition process.
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Michael Seidenberg, NYC's Speakeasy Bookseller, Dies
In his later years, the beloved owner of New York's Brazenhead Books ran the bookstore out of his apartment, attracting the city's literati and bookworms.
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