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Can NYC's Shakespeare & Co. Create a National Indie Chain?
With a bookstore about to open in New York City's Greenwich Village and a fifth store slated to open next year at the upscale Brookfield Place mall, also in New York City, and another three or four in the works for 2020, Shakespeare & Co. is looking to create a "constellation" of bookstores with cafes and book machines.
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D.C.'s Loyalty Bookstore Looks to Expand
Loyalty Books in Washington D.C. is looking to add a second location, this time in Silver Spring, Md.; the organization has also brought on publishing industry veteran Gene Taft as a partner and marketing specialist.
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Print Unit Sales Increased 3% in Early May
Unit sales of print books rose 3% for the week ended May 11, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New Owner and Move for Curious George Store
The World's Only Curious George store has been sold to Astra Titus, a consultant working with the store on a partnership with Reach Out and Read.
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S&S Launches Indie Quick Start
Simon & Schuster has become the latest publisher to create a new ordering program for independent booksellers following the decision by Baker & Taylor to exit the retail wholesale business.
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James Patterson's Holiday Bonuses for Booksellers Are Back
For the sixth year running, author James Patterson has renewed his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program, pledging $250,000 to be distributed in denominations of $500 to 500 independent booksellers and bookstores.
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Hachette, IPG Launch Direct Sales Promos for Indies
Further to the news that Baker & Taylor is closing its retail wholesale business, both Hachette Book Group and Independent Publishers Group are offering independent booksellers special programs to transition them to direct sales.
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Unit Sales Had Small Gain in Early May, Led by Nonfiction
Unit sales of print books inched up by just under 1% in the week ended May 3, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 13, 2019
Class is back in session for Stuart Gibbs’s Spy School series as the seventh installment, ‘British Invasion,’ debuts at #3 in children’s frontlist fiction. Plus the team behind ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ score with ‘High Five,’ and thriller-writing collaborators Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley put their own spin on the question of ‘Collusion.’
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PRH Offers Direct Sales to Orphaned Bookstores
In response to Baker & Taylor closing its retail wholesale business, Penguin Random House has launched the "Indies Express Program" to transition B&T indie bookstore accounts to direct sales.
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Baker & Taylor News Sparks ABA into Action
Following last week's news that Baker & Taylor is ending its retail wholesale business, the American Booksellers Association wrote to members to say it was working to limit any damage to the community and find the best solutions for moving forward.
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BISG Annual Meeting Tries to Make Sense of the Supply Chain
This year’s BISG annual meeting, held April 26 at the Harvard Club in New York City, surveyed a range of trends across the publishing supply chain.
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Soft Adult Sales Drop Units 3.6% in Late April
Weakness in the two adult categories led to a 3.6% decline in overall print unit sales in the week ended Apr. 27, 2019, compared to the same week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 6, 2019
Scribner publishes an edition of ‘The Mueller Report’ that hits #2 in the country and sweeps the East Coast. Plus economist Emily Oster lands at #5 in hardcover nonfiction with a data-driven take on parenting, and Melinda Gates’s nonfiction debut is among the week’s notable releases.
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Industry Reacts to B&T Exiting the Retail Wholesale Business
Booksellers and former competitors alike are developing plans on how to deal with the news that Baker & Taylor will be closing down its retail wholesale business.
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Shakespeare & Co. to Open in Lower Manhattan
New York City-based bookseller Shakespeare & Co. will open a store in Brookfield Place, a retail mall in lower Manhattan, in January 2020. There, it plans to host large scale author events.
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B&T to Close Its Retail Wholesale Business
Baker & Taylor will close down its retail wholesale business in order to better align itself with the education focus of parent company Follett Corp. About 500 jobs will be lost in the process.
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White Supremacists Take Over D.C. Bookstore Reading
White supremacists briefly took over a reading by author Jonathan Metzl at the flagship location for Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, shouting “this land is our land” and marching through the store yelling the name of a group that helped to organize the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.
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Independent Bookstore Day 2019: Photos
A total of 580 bookstores participated in the fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day, hosting special events, author readings and parties. Here are some photos from the day from our PW team and other contributors.
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NAIBA Booksellers Talk Education, Health Care, and the Bottom Line
New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association members gathered in Baltimore on April 25 for discussions about bookseller education, health care, and finances for independent bookstores across the region.
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