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This Week's Bestsellers: April 2, 2018
'Clinton Cash' author Peter Schweizer has the #1 book in the country with 'Secret Empires.’ Plus two books about vice-president Mike Pence’s family rabbit debut on our lists, and the biopic ‘I Can Only Imagine’ boosts sales of the memoir of the same name.
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PW Launches a New Gathering Place For Booksellers to Connect
'Publishers Weekly' introduces "BXsellers" as a new virtual meeting place for booksellers.
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Boulder Book Store Named 2018 PW Bookstore of the Year; Mesjak Rep
The innovative Colorado bookstore is the 26th recipient of the PW Bookstore of the Year Award. Among the store's firsts, it is the first store to buy on Edelweiss and one of the first to offer consignment sections by publisher. John Mesjak with Abraham Associates was named this year's PW Sales Representative of the Year.
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Boston Literary Coalition Gets Boost for Cultural Hub Plan
Led by the writing non-profit Grub Street, a Boston literary coalition proposal for a cultural center along the city's waterfront got a boost this week with the announcement of a $2 million grant from the Calderwood Charitable Foundation should their plan be approved.
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Booksellers Outraged by Chronicle’s Rollout of John Oliver Book
Chronicle president Tyrrell Mahoney sent an e-mail to regional indie bookseller association board members apologizing for the rollout of 'A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo,' which left most indies with no copies of the surprise hit last week.
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Easter Books Contribute to 8% Sales Gain in Mid-March
With Easter occurring two weeks earlier this year than in 2017, unit sales of print books rose 8% in the week ended March 18, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 26, 2018
'Russian Roulette' by Michael Isikoff and David Corn is the #1 book in the country. Plus Peter Brown’s wild robot gets loose, and sales soar for Stephen Hawking’s 'A Brief History of Time.'
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Publishers Are Urged to Monitor Amazon Buy Buttons
The e-tailer's year-old strategy of letting third party sellers compete for buy buttons is here to stay.
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Bookseller Anderson Loses Congressional Primary
Becky Anderson of Anderson's Bookshops was knocked out of the campaign to unseat the Republican incumbent in Illinois' Sixth Congressional District after receiving 6% of the vote in a Democratic primary.
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Novelist Alex George to Open Bookstore in Columbia, Mo.
George, who is also the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, will open an indie bookstore in the college town in August.
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Booksellers Come Out in Support of University Press of Kentucky
The Midwest Indie Booksellers and the Great Lakes Indie Booksellers associations have issued a joint statement condemning Kentucky's governor for cutting the funding for the University Press of Kentucky.
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Sales in Juvenile Categories Continued to Rise in Early March
Unit sales of print books in the week ended Mar. 12, 2018, inched ahead 1% over the comparable week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 19, 2018
Madeleine L’Engle has the #1 and #7 book in the country with the conventional and tie-in editions of ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’Two ‘Today’ hosts have books debuting on our lists, and a novel related to ‘The Shape of Water’ debuts just after the movie’s Oscar win.
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Porter Square Owners Sell Half Their Store to Employees
Porter Square Books owners Dina Mardell and David Sandberg are selling half their stake in their Cambridge, Mass., bookstore to their senior staff members.
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January Bookstore Sales Fell 9.1%
According to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales fell 9.1% in January 2018 compared to the first month of 2017. It was the sixth month in a row store sales fell compared to the previous year.
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Shakespeare & Co. to Open Three Stores This Year
Over the past three years the new owners of New York City's iconic bookstore have perfected their mix of café, books, and book machine. This summer they will expand the Shakespeare concept to Philadelphia with two more Manhattan locations to open later in the year.
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Juvenile Categories Drive 5% Unit Gain in Early March
Unit sales of print books in the week ended Mar. 4, 2018, were 5% higher than in the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Trump Presidency Reinvigorates Feminist Bookstores
While there are only a handful of feminist bookstores in the U.S., several of them report that the perfect storm of Donald Trump’s 2016 election and the subsequent #MeToo movement have reinvigorated their businesses.
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Indie Bookstore Cries Censorship After Gay Marriage Title Pulled from School Book Fair
Newbery Medalist Richard Peck's middle grade novel 'The Best Man' has sparked tensions in Athens, Ga., after complaints from parents led to the book's removal from an indie bookstore's display at a school book fair.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers List, March 2018
The bestselling titles from Smashwords in the month of March, 2018.
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