April Bookstore Sales Up 7.7%
-- Publishers Weekly, 6/28/1999
Bookstore sales followed up a strong March, when sales increased 6.8%, with a more robust performance in April, when sales increased 7.7% to $906 million. Sales for the entire retail segment also rose 7.7% in April, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. For the first four months of 1999, bookstore sales were up 4.3% to $4.24 billion.
