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News from ABA: Growing & Shopping Local
The independent channel continues to grow with the addition of 40 new stores and branches last year. The impact of those stores on the local economy is more than three times that of chains.
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Penguin Joins Espresso Book Machine Network
Penguin Group (USA) is the latest publisher to make a selection of titles, both children's and adult, available through the EBM's “digital-to-print at retail" sales channel.
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November Bookstore Sales Rose 3%
Bookstore sales rose 3.3% in November, to $965 million, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. With the November gain, bookstore sales were down just under 1%, at $13.51 billion, for 2012 with one month to go in the year.
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NAIBA Sets 2013 Trade Show Dates
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association will hold its 2013 fall trade show in New Jersey again this year at the Somerset Doubletreefrom September 30-October 2.
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A Look at a Year of Bestsellers
No one would have been able to predict at the start of 2012 that a BDSM erotic romantic trilogy—Fifty Shades—would set new records for book sales and change/spice up what women worldwide would admit to be reading, many for the first time.
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The Wal-Mart Effect
Nielsen BookScan began including book sales from Wal-Mart in its service starting with the week ending January 6, 2013, and the addition shed at least some light on the impact that the world’s largest retailer has in the book indusstry.
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Quebec Weighs Price Fixing
On August 22, 2012, 13 days before Quebecers went to the polls in one of the most hotly contested provincial elections of the past two decades, Quebec’s book industry launched its One Price for Books campaign (noslivresàjusteprix.com).
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Print Loosens Grip on the Coasts
Unit sales of print books fell in every region of the country in 2012, with the largest declines coming along the coasts.
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Big Names Dominated Bestsellers in 2012
Parsing through the top 10 bestsellers of 2012 in a number of major publishing categories reads like a usual suspects list, as a small number of authors filled a large number of spots.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 14, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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News from ABA: Strong Sales, Spring Forums & Bookseller Hotel
The American Booksellers Association is starting off the new year in their new offices on a high note with strong sales for indies, up almost 8%, and new initiatives.
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The Wal-Mart Effect
Last week was the first time that Nielsen BookScan added Wal-Mart data to its report on book sales. Wal-Mart sales are now part of BookScan’s mass merchandisers & other strata and as you might suspect, provided a huge boost to sales in that segment. In the week ended January 6, 2013, units in the segment rose 65% to over 1.8 million units from 1.1 million in the first week of January 2012.
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Barbara Meade Retires from P&P
After 35 years in bookselling, Barbara Mead, former owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., has "hung up my book bag" and retired.
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Literati Bookstore Scheduled to Open in Ann Arbor
Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, which lost Shaman Drum in 2009 and Borders Books' flagship store in 2011, will once again boast a general bookstore, when Literati Bookstore opens its doors this spring.
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NetGalley and ABA Team Up for Indies
Through a new program, Digital White Box, ABA members will have access to electronic advanced copies of select print titles each month.
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Amazon Plans New Jersey DC
Amazon continues to grow its number of distribution centers, announcing plans to open a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Robbinsville, N.J. in early 2014.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 7, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Ka-ching: Indie Booksellers Ring Up Strong Holiday Sales
Reuters called 2012 possibly the worst holiday retail season since the 2008 financial crisis—it certainly wasn’t very merry for Barnes & Noble, which was down 10.9% from 2011—but most independent booksellers PW spoke with were pleased.
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The Bestselling Books of 2012
Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks 75%-80% of prints sales.
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