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Independent Bookstore Day 2019: Like Christmas in April
With a record number of stores participating, independent booksellers held a wide range of events to attract customers to April 27's Independent Bookstore Day.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 29, 2019
‘The Mister,’ E.L. James’s first non–Fifty Shades romance, in #2 in the country, with her softest first week to date. Plus lauded Irish author Sally Rooney’s sophomore effort, ‘Normal People,’ lands at #6 in hardcover fiction, and Pete Buttigieg’s popularity is rising in the polls and at bookstores.
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Units Jumped 20.2% in Easter Week
The final week before Easter proved to be a boon for juvenile publishing, with sales in the nonfiction category rising 80.8% over the week ended Apr. 21, 2018, while fiction sales jumped 67.1%.
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Independent Bookstore Day Gets Even Bigger
The fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day takes place on Saturday, April 27, with 580 stores participating, up from 507 last year.
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Juvenile Titles Push Unit Sales Up 5.9% in Mid-April
Led by big gains in the juvenile categories, total print unit sales rose 5.9% in the week ended Apr. 13, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 22, 2019
Chelsea Handler’s ‘Life Will Be the Death of Me,’ which PW called ‘amusingly offbeat,’ is the #2 book in the country. Plus Martha Hall Kelly is in full flower with ‘Lost Roses,’ her follow-up to ‘Lilac Girls,’ and new Macmillan imprint Celadon has its second bestseller in ‘Wolfpack.’
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Bookstore Sales Have Second Consecutive Bad Month
Bookstore sales fell 6.4% in February compared to a year ago, dropping to $626 million from $669 million in February 2018. In January, sales were down 9.6%.
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Booksellers Publish First Copies of Mueller Report
Giving new meaning to the publishing industry term “instant book,” two independent bookstores turned the release of the redacted 400-page investigative report by special counsel Robert Mueller into a print-on-demand feature within hours of its release on Thursday.
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Easter Titles Help Lift Unit Sales 4.3% in Early April
With Easter having passed by this time in 2018 and the holy day still a few weeks away this year, overall unit sales of print books rose 4.3% in the week ended Apr. 6, 2019, over the comparable week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 15, 2019
Historian Douglas Brinkley launches a new season of space exploration books with ‘American Moonshot.’ Plus Lori Gottlieb, who writes the Dear Therapist column for ‘The Atlantic,’ debuts at #9 in hardcover nonfiction with ‘Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,’ and YA novelist Tahereh Mafi builds on her Shatter Me series with ‘Defy Me.’
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Follett Will Open Five Book Fair Fulfillment Centers
Follett Corp., which entered the school book fair business in fall 2017, will open five new fulfillment centers by August 1.
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Porter Square Books to Open in New Boston Literary Center
Porter Square Books will open a second location in Boston’s Seaport District, taking a ground floor space in a new literary center that will house the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet and the poetry non-profit Mass Poetry.
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Indies Want Support for New Stores
Opening order specials for new bookstores were nonexistent at major publishers as recently as fall 2015. The ABA is working to change all that.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 8, 2019
Bobby Hall, aka hip-hop artist Logic, has the #1 book in the country with ‘Supermarket,’ his debut novel. Plus new installments of the Expanse and Miasie Dobbs series land their authors on our hardcover fiction list.
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An Array of Business Updates at NEIBA Conference
Amid a daylong series of author readings, educational sessions, and a town hall, NEIBA attendees heard updates on the latest bookstore financials, the progress on ABA's pre-order campaign, and how the installation of Batch is proceeding.
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Last Year's Books Top This Year's First Quarter Sales
Michelle's Obama's 'Becoming,' released in early November, was the biggest title, selling 629,000 copies through outlets that report to BookScan in the period ended March 30. Only three books released in 2019 made the top 20 list in the quarter.
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January Bookstore Sales Had Big Decline
Faced with what should have been easy comparisons to January 2018 when bookstore sales fell 9.6% compared to 2017, bookstore sales nonetheless fell 10.6% this past January compared to a year ago.
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Booksellers Announce First Annual Bookstore Romance Day
As independent bookstores continue to deepen their ties with romance readers, a group of enthusiast booksellers has announced the first Bookstore Romance Day to be held on August 17, 2019.
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Late Easter Leads to Unit Drop at End of March
Unit sales of print books dropped 7.1% in the week ended Mar. 23, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 1, 2019
‘Doing Justice’ by Preet Bharara and Evan Thomas’s Sandra Day O’Connor bio, ‘First,’ nab courtside seats on our hardcover nonfiction list. Elsewhere in nonfiction, food magazines serve up a pair of new cookbooks, and the second collection from the Moth storytelling project alights.
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