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Book Sales Slipped at Hastings in 2012
Book sales fell about 7% at Hastings Entertainment in 2012, to $101 million.
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Online Sales Fell 8% at Books-A-Million
Books-A-Million has never done a big business online, and sales through the Web site fell 8.6% in the fiscal year ended February 2, 2013, the company disclosed in its 10-k filing with the SEC. The decline, to $27.4 million, was attributed to lower sales of digital reading devices which offset higher sales of books and other products.
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Making Preorders Work For Indies
Most readers who preordered Charlaine Harris’s forthcoming Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After (which will be released May 7), likely did so at Amazon, where it is 45% off and has hovered in the top 50 for weeks.
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Boston Bomber Chase Closes Bookstores & Libraries
At the request of police, businesses in Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, and surrounding communities will be closed Friday morning.
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Boston Book Industry Reacts to Marathon Bombing
Monday afternoon’s bombings had particular resonance for the literary community. The tragedy played out in front of the Boston Public Library, which remains closed, and forced the evacuation of Barnes & Noble at the Pru.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 3.6% in February
After increasing by more than 5% in January, bookstore sales fell 3.6% in February, to $958 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 15, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Whither Bargain Books?
E-books are affecting bargain books, like everything else in the publishing industry.
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Bezos on Competitors, Royalties, Kindles
Amazon may act as though it doesn’t hear criticism from outside of the company but, according to company founder and chairman Jeff Bezos, this is not the case.
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Publishing’s Big Week…in 2012
The release of The Hunger Games film and the debut of Fifty Shades of Grey resulted in a spike in sales in the first week of April 2012.
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Goodreads a Hot Topic at SCIBA Spring Meeting
How independent booksellers can react to Amazon's purchase of Goodreads was a hot topic of discussion at the April 9 spring meeting of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association spring meeting that attracted about 60 booksellers.
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Obituary: Marilyn Abel Dies at 74
The longtime executive director of the Educational Book and Media Association, died on April 5 following a brief illness. She was 74 years old.
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NEIBA & NAIBA Launch Joint Ad Program
Through the newly created Nor'easter Advertising Program publishers will be able to reach independent booksellers from Maine to Virginia.
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Blackwood & Brouwer to Close
The 23-year-old Kinderhook, N.Y. bookstore is the latest to suffer the double-whammy of aging staff and book industry changes.
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Follett Acquires BetterKnow, Inc.
Follett will create an integrated course-materials solution this fall by combining the technology platform with its new includED program.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending March 31, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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The Bestselling Books of 2013, January-March
Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven and the latest Wimpy Kid title were the only books to sell over 300,000 print units in the first three months of 2013, according to Nielsen BookScan, but neither is in Amazon’s top 20 bestselling Kindle titles of the year, showing the disparity between print and e-book sales.
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Vroman’s Bookstore Opens a Pop-Up Clearance Shop
The pop-up, which is open daily through April 30, is directly across the street from Vroman's and is selling book and gift items at a 75% discount.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 08, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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No Resale for Digital Music
Judge Richard Sullivan ruled against "the world's first pre-owned digital marketplace" ReDigi and cited the fact that music on the site was in fact copied.
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