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This Week's Bestsellers: March 12, 2018
Journalist Michelle McNamara’s posthumously published true crime investigation, 'I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,’ debuts at #5 in hardcover fiction. Plus Hot for Food vlogger Lauren Toyota publishers her first cookbook, and playwright and screenwriter David Mamet returns with his first novel in two decades.
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Conservative Activists Threaten To Burn Berkeley Bookstore
Berkeley's Revolution Books has been a favorite target of conservative activists and on March 3 a group threatened to burn down the bookstore.
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B&N Starts Nationwide Book Club
The Barnes & Noble Book Club will debut May 2, with Meg Wolitzer’s forthcoming novel 'The Female Persuasion' as its first title.
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No Quick Fix for B&N
Barnes & Noble's turnaround will be a multiyear effort at least.
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Juvenile Categories Post Double Digits Unit Gains
The Weekly ScUnit sales of print books rose 3% in the week ended Feb. 25, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 5, 2018
Mark Greaney’s ‘Agent in Place,’ the latest installment of his Gray Man series, debuts at #8 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus the 2018 Newbery and Caldecott Medalists get a print sales boost, and Alan Cumming brings a James Patterson character to TV life.
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B&N Will Open Five Prototype Stores in Fiscal 2019
The new stores will average about 14,000 sq. ft., making them roughly 12,000 sq. ft. smaller than the chain's current stores. The first prototype location is set to open in New Jersey in late summer.
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Indie Booksellers Grapple with Sherman Alexie Sexual Harassment Charges
Sherman Alexie has long been a champion of independent bookstores. Now, with the bestselling author facing sexual harassment charges leveled at him largely via social media, booksellers are grappling with how, and if, they should respond.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 26, 2018
Ahead of the ‘Red Sparrow’ movie release, ‘The Kremlin’s Candidate,’ which closes out Jason Matthews’s trilogy, debuts at #16 in hardcover fiction. Plus another book-turned-movie, Becky Albertalli’s ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,’ climbs the children’s and YA fiction chart, and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker offers ‘Enlightenment Now.’
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Rethinking College Stores
Can independent campus stores survive the onslaught from Follett and B&NE at a time when textbook sales continue to shrink?
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Board Book Sales Drive More February Unit Gains
A 31% leap in the print unit sales of board books in the week ended Feb. 18, 2018, helped drive total unit sales 5% higher than in the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Border Patrol Agent-Turned-Author Meets Protests in California
Activists have interrupted Francisco Cantú's tour for his buzzed-about new book 'The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border,' after descending upon a reading the author did in San Francisco.
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Booksellers Respond to Kid Lit Sexual Harassment Scandal
Booksellers are reacting in varied ways to the sexual harassment controversy that has engulfed the children's publishing world.
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Juvenile Categories Drive Sales Gains in Early February
With the juvenile fiction and nonfiction categories both posting 7% gains, total print unit sales were 3% higher in the week ended Feb. 11, 2018, than in the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 19, 2018
Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Great Alone’ is the #1 book in the country. Plus the Oprah-annointed ‘An American Marriage’ by Tayari Jones takes two positions in hardcover fiction, and Christian lifestyle blogger Rachel Hollis gives readers life lessons in ‘Girl, Wash Your Face.'
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Chicagoland Bookseller Named GLIBA Executive Director
The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association has named GLIBA board member Larry Law as its executive director, effective March 1. Law currently serves as director of e-commerce and marketing at Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, Ill.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 3.6% in 2017
A slump in the second half of 2017 resulted in bookstore sales falling to $10.73 billion last year, down from $11.14 billion in 2016.
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SIBA Bids to Create Eureka Moments
The Southern Independent Booksellers Association is preparing to hold its first ever “EUREKAsiba” on February 20 in Atlanta, a day-long event aimed at inspiring booksellers to think outside the box.
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Opening a Queer/Feminist Bookstore in Small-Town Mississippi
With its official grand opening on February 3, owner Jaime Harker’s dream has become a reality: the small town of Water Valley, Miss. has its first (and only) Queer/Feminist bookstore – Violet Valley Bookstore.
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B&N to Save $40 Million Following New Layoffs
After posting disappointing holiday results, Barnes & Noble instituted a round of layoffs yesterday that it says will save the company $40 million annually and result in severance payments of about $11 million.
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