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S&S, Barnes & Noble Finally Settle Terms Dispute
After a protracted disagreement over terms between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster, that left the retailer's stock of titles from the publisher diminished, the companies have announced that they have settled their dispute.
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Local Couple Buys Porter Square Books
Customers and Cantabrigians Dina Mardell and David Sandberg completed the purchase of the nine-year-old Cambridge bookstore over the weekend.
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Overstock Continues Pricing Battle
Overstock.com has announced that members of their loyalty program, Club O, will now receive "Club O Dollars" equaling 15% of a book purchase price to use toward future purchases.
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Byrd’s Books Prepares for Move
Less than two years after it opened, the Bethel, Conn., bookstore is moving from its 450 sq. ft. second-story perch to a ground floor downtown location that is nearly triple the size.
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Spotlight on Book-Buying Behavior
The long-term trend of consumers buying more books on impulse at bricks-and-mortar stores than at online retailers continued in 2012, according to Bowker’s 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Book Buying Behaviors Annual Review.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 11, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 19, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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'Burn' Hot, 'Hothouse' Not
Burn, the third volume in Maya Banks's Breathless trilogy, knocked The Casual Vacancy out of the top spot on the trade paperback list for the week ended August 11 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan, selling 25,613 copies.
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What's Selling at the Magic Tree Bookstore
At the Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., in Chicago's western suburbs, co-owner Rose Joseph and bookseller Ann Krusek talk about current favorites.
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Astoria Bookshop to Open Next Week
With a boost from volunteers who have helped with painting and alphabetizing inventory, Astoria, Queens, will have its first general bookstore.
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'Find Waldo Local' II a Success
For the second year in a row, the July Find Waldo Local promotion boosted book sales, solidified the Shop Local movement on many Main Streets, and made a lot of kids very happy.
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June Bookstore Sales Drop 9.5%
According to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales in June dropped 9.5%, to $829 million from $916 million in June 2012. Bookstore sales for the first half of 2013 were down 1.5% to $6.06 billion.
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Overstock Quietly Ends Price War
With as little fanfare as it began, Overstock.com moved away from trying to undercut rival Amazon in the book market and is focusing on home goods.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 4, 2013
The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending July 28, 2013
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Spotlight on Book-Buying Behavior
Consumers paid less for books in all formats in 2012 than they did in 2009.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 12, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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'Cuckoo' Slips, But Stays #1
The Cuckoo’s Calling remained the top-selling print book in the country for the week ending August 4 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan despite a 29% drop in sales
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New Children's Bookstore to Open in Berkeley
When Mr. Mopps' Children's Books opens this October, Berkeley, Calif., will have its first children's bookstore.
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Sales Fall, Losses Rise at Indigo
Indigo Books & Music reported that its revenue was down 8.1% in its first quarter compared to the same quarter in the previous year and that its net loss increased to C$15 million from C$5.5 million a year ago.
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