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Arcadia Goes Local at Winter Institute
Arcadia Publishing, which has a backlist of 14,000 local and regional titles, will present personalized catalogs to booksellers at Winter Institute, touting 16 store-specific titles the location's employees can handsell.
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Shutdown Has Mixed Effect on D.C. Bookstores
Nearly four weeks into the government shutdown, some bookstores in the nation’s capital are beginning to experience the financial effects of the federal furlough, while others remain unscathed.
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Posman Books to Open Boston Location
New York City-based Posman Books is slated to open a fifth location, this time in Boston, by summer. The bookstore will be the second Posman’s to open nationally this year and the first new bookstore in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood in a generation.
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Drag Queen Readings Win Fans, Draw Protests
As story times hosted by drag queens become more commonplace at indie bookstores, booksellers are having to contend with some unwanted realities, including protests.
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Genre Fiction Is Finding a Place At Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstores aren't known for stocking a wide assortment of genre fiction titles, but booksellers are finding that it's time for that to change.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 14, 2019
Marie Kondo’s TV series premieres on Netflix, giving ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up’ its best week of sales in two years. Plus Christopher Paolini returns to the world of ‘Eragon' with a three-story collection, and two new cookbooks promise instant gratification.
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Unit Sales Start 2019 with a 9% Increase
Sales of print books got off to a good start in the first week of 2019, with units up 9.3% over the week ended January 6, 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Holiday Comps Rose 4.0% at B&N
After a long string of quarterly comp store sales declines, B&N reported that 2018 holiday same store sales rose 4.0% over the comparable period a year ago. Higher promotional spending, however, may cause the retailer to cut its earnings forecast by as much as 10%.
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Indie Bookstore Count Grew in the U.K. Last Year
The number of independent bookshops with Booksellers Association membership in the U.K. and Ireland has grown for the second year in a row, rising to 883 stores from 868 in 2017. The growth follows more than 20 years of decline in the sector.
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‘Becoming’ Is Top-Selling Title In 2018
In the year of nonfiction, ‘Becoming’ was one of 10 nonfiction books among 2018’s 20 bestselling titles.
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Indie Booksellers Report Strong Holiday Finish
Although independent booksellers reported difficulty in keeping certain titles in stock, the problem was not enough to prevent many booksellers from reported a record holiday season.
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Preorders Make a 2019 Title a Houston Indie's 2018 Bestseller
Brazos Bookstore pre-sold more than 300 copies of Mike Freedman's 'King of the Mississippi,' a book that won't be published until July, making it the store's bestselling fiction title of 2018.
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Unit Sales Dropped 6.5% in Mid-December
The publishing industry does not look like it is headed for a big finish to 2018. In the week ended Dec. 15, 2018, unit sales of print books fell 6.5% compared to the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Booksellers’ Favorite Titles of 2018
Nearly 800 members of Bxsellers, a private Facebook group of booksellers established by PW, name their favorite titles of the year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 24, 2018
‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ and other titles that appear on multiple best-of-2018 lists enjoyed a boost in sales. Plus the self-described ‘worst alphabet book ever’ debuts in children’s picture books, and a trio of backlist, naughty-list titles proved popular with holiday shoppers.
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Teicher Reports on Another Good Year for Indies
In a year-end holiday letter ABA CEO Oren Teicher thanked publishers for reducing the cost of goods, enabling bookstores to be more profitable. He also said sales were up 5% for the year over 2017.
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Brover, Donohue, Malat Promoted at B&N Education
In the wake of Patrick Maloney's upcoming retirement as executive v-p, operations, BNED and president, BNC, Barry Brover, Thomas D. Donohue, and Lisa Malat have been promoted and have taken on new duties.
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Soft Kids, Adult Fiction Sales Drop Units 0.8% in Early December
Declines in adult fiction and juvenile fiction and nonfiction offset a 7.6% increase in adult nonfiction sales, resulting in a 0.8% drop in unit sales of print books for the week ended Dec. 8, 2018, compared to the similar week last year at outlets the report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 17, 2018
Charles Krauthammer’s posthumously published collection, ‘The Point of It All,’ is the #4 book in the country. Plus Reese Witherspoon’s latest book club pick, ‘One Day in December,’ debuts at #3 in trade paper, and Graywolf releases Booker Prize winner ‘Milkman’ in the U.S.
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Bookstore Sales Increased 7.2% in October
After two months of declines, bookstore sales were $699 million in October, up from $649 million in October 2017. Sales were flat in the first 10 months of the year compared to 2017.
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