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A Literary Center Grows in Orange, California
The Open Book in Minneapolis has become an inspiration for similar projects around the country, including Levin Staniec's 1888 Center in Orange, Calif., which finally secured a storefront last year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 15, 2018
Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power,’ named to many “best of 2017” lists, is boosted onto our hardcover fiction list. Plus the movie tie-in edition of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ makes its first appearance on our lists, and former CPA Jesse Mecham explains why ‘You Need a Budget.’
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The Bestsellers of 2017
The year the crayons quit, 2017 finally saw adult coloring books give way—but the usual Big Five dominance was as present as ever.
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Bookstore Sales Dropped 6.4% in November
The late year swoon in bookstore sales continued into November with sales down 6.4% from November 2016. November was the fourth consecutive month bookstore sales fell compared to the same month in 2016.
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Feminism and Feel-Good Stories: A Children's Holiday 2017 Sales Report
Reports from around the country indicate a healthy season for children’s booksellers in particular, consistently citing sales hikes of 10% or more over the previous year.
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MPIBA Hires Tattered Cover Vet as Executive Director
Heather Duncan, a 28 year veteran of the Tattered Cover Book Store, has taken over the role of Executive Director of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
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Flooding Shutters Falmouth's Eight Cousins Bookstore
The Falmouth, Mass., is closed indefinitely after a pipe burst in an apartment above the independent bookstore, collapsing the store's ceiling and damaging its entire stock.
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Michigan Mini-Chain Schuler Books to Close Lansing Store
One of the retailer's anchor locations, in an open air shopping mall in Michigan's capital city, will close next month. The chain's co-owner cited issues with the mall's management as the driving force behind the decision.
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Backlist Books Win in 2017
In a nonelection year that saw politics leap even more to the forefront of public discourse than the year prior, 2017’s biggest books were, for the most part, nonpolitical—and many came from the backlist.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 8, 2018
Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power,’ named to many “best of 2017” lists, is boosted onto our hardcover fiction list. Plus the movie tie-in edition of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ makes its first appearance on our lists, and former CPA Jesse Mecham explains why ‘You Need a Budget.’
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Indie Booksellers Show Post-Holiday Confidence
The unpredictable climate throughout the U.S. in December, both environmental and political, didn’t stop consumers from shopping at independent bookstores—and they have the sales to show for it.
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Print Sales Up Again in 2017
Although no new book sold more than one million print copies last year,, unit sales of print books were still 10.8% higher last year than in 2013.
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Monthly StatShot, August 2017
August sales of adult trade books slipped by 0.3% from August 2016, according to AAP’s StatShot program.
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Booksellers Prepare to Meet Demand for 'Fire and Fury'
Facing high demand and a pushed-up pub date, booksellers big and small are scrambling to get copies of Michael Wolff's political exposé.
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B&N Has Disappointing Holiday Sales
Sales for the nine-week holiday period ended December 30, 2017, fell 6.4% compared to the 2016 holiday season at the retailer. With the weaker than expected sales performance, B&N lowered its financial forecast for the fiscal year ending in April.
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ABA, Authors Guild Slam Trump's Legal Campaign Against 'Fire and Fury'
The ABA, Authors Guild, and National Coalition Against Censorship have issued separate statements condemning a cease and desist letter sent to Henry Holt by a lawyer for President Trump demanding that the publisher stop publication of Michael Wolff's White House tell-all.
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As Book World Closes, Indie Booksellers Eye Its Locations
As the Midwest chain liquidates its inventory, it is fielding requests about its 45 locations from potential buyers who are considering turning the now-available sites into indie bookstores.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 1, 2018
Santa was good to booksellers this year. The week before Christmas, overall print unit sales were 7% higher than in the comparable week last year, and a lot of books saw substantial sales jumps. Here are the adult hardcover titles that saw the largest week-over-week increases in unit sales.
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Christmas Week Sales Jump 7% Over 2016
Led by solid gains through the retail and club channel, unit sales of print books rose 7% this Christmas week over last year. 'The Getaway' remained the season's most popular book, while Rupi Kaur sold a combined 136,000 copies of her two books in the week.
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Unit Sales Have First Weekly Holiday Increase in 2017
Unit sales of print books rose 3% in the week ended December 17, 2017, over the comparable period in 2016, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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