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Sales Surge at Tourist Town Indie Bookstores
Covid-19 and heat waves are drawing crowds of readers to bookstores in tourist towns near the Great Lakes and in the Rocky Mountains.
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Booksellers Hit the Books
A newly launched professional bookseller certification program aims to boost indie bookselling skills.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 6, 2021
History podcaster Mike Duncan has the #8 book in the country with his Marquis de Lafayette bio, 'Hero of Two Worlds.' Plus a pair of tennis books score in time for the U.S. Open, and Oprah makes her latest book club pick.
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Children's Institute 9: Indie Bookselling in a Post-Pandemic World
Booksellers focused on the nuts-and-bolts of indie bookselling in a post-pandemic world, with Wednesday roundtables on gift bundles and boxes and hosting virtual events especially well attended by Ci9 booksellers.
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Children's Institute 9: Sales and Moods Up as Conference Draws to a Close
The ninth annual American Booksellers Association Children’s Institute came to a close on September 1, marking the second year that the indie bookseller gathering was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Nonfiction Declines Led to 2.3% Drop in Print Book Sales Last Week
Unit sales of adult fiction print titles rose 18.7% last week, but that wasn't enough to offset more declines in nonfiction.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 30, 2021
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have the #2 book in the country with 'Bloodless.' Plus Christian Robinson's Target collaboration drops, sending sales of 'You Matter' soaring, and 'Sensor' shows why Junji Ito is the manga king of body horror.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 1.6% in Mid-August
Unit sales of print books rose 1.6% in the week ended Aug. 21, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Gorman Book's Price Hike Startles Booksellers
Penguin Random House surprised booksellers with the announcement that Amanda Gorman's forthcoming volume 'Call Us What We Carry' would be double the anticipated length, and that the price will be raised by $5.
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Print Book Sales Skid Ends After Four Weeks
Unit sales of print books increased 1.6% last week over 2020, ending four weeks of declines. Adult fiction sales led the rebound, with sales up 26.3%.
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B&N Rides a Wave of Positive Trends
Helped by a wave of positive trends, sales of the country’s largest physical bookstore retailer are higher than two years ago.
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Print Unit Sales Dip in Mid-August
Unit sales of print books declined 1.3% in the week ended Aug. 14, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Profile: The King’s English Bookshop
Calvin Crosby quit his job as executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance earlier this year and returned to Utah, where he joined Anne Holman and Betsy Burton as co-owner of Salt Lake City literary icon The King's English. Here's what's in store for the store.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 23, 2021
Tucker Carlson's latest, 'The Long Slide,' is #3 in the country. Plus four of the 10 bestselling books of the week are backlist TikTok favorites, and a biography of NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo takes its shot.
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Saturday Is Bookstore Romance Day
Saturday, August 21, is Bookstore Romance Day. More than 250 bookstores around the country are participating, as well as Bookshop.org, and 14 virtual events and panels will take place over the weekend.
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Print Book Sales Dipped Last Week
While print unit sales improved last week over the week ended August 7, 2021, they still fell 1.3% compared to a year ago, as adult fiction remained the only category to post a meaningful increase.
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Soaring June Sales Boost 2021 First Half Bookstore Sales
Bookstore sales skyrocketed 81.1% in June over a year ago, and finished the first half of 2021 with a 30% increase over the first six months of 2020.
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Greenlight Bookstores in Brooklyn Unionize
A total of 39 employees at two locations of Greenlight Bookstore and one location of Yours Truly, Brooklyn, a stationery store, all located in Brooklyn, N.Y., have voted to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union.
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Print Sales Down Again in Early August
Unit sales of print books fell 8% in the week ended Aug. 7, 2021, compared to a year ago, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Profile: Brazos Bookstore
Brazos was established in 1974 by Karl Killian primarily as an art and architecture bookstore. Through his efforts, it developed a reputation as a literary haven in Houston.
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