February Bookstore Sales Drop

-- Publishers Weekly, 4/16/2007

Bookstore sales tumbled 6.5% in February, to $1.01 billion, according to estimates released this morning from the U.S. Census Bureau. With the 1.4% decline in January, bookstore sales for the two first months of 2007 were down 3.1%, to $3.19 billion. Sales for all of retail were up only 1.5% in February and up 3.9% in the two-month period.