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Powell's Books and Employee Union in Dispute Over Rehires
The management of Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., says it has hired back some 170 former employees, out of approximately 400 laid off, but argues that, with the passage of a year, it is no longer obligated to honor the seniority of former employees or to maintain a recall list of unionized employees. The union disagrees, and former employees feel aggrieved and betrayed.
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New Pilkey Title Leads a Good Week for Book Sales
An early 2021 Easter, combined with declining sales last spring as the pandemic heated up, resulted in a huge gain in unit sales of print books for the week ended March 28, 2021, over the comparable week last year at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New Grant Program Will Aid Indie Bookstores
A new industry initiative to help independent booksellers and comic shops recover from the Covid-19 pandemic is being launched today, with a $500,000 contribution from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group as well as significant gifts from Bookshop.org and four major publishers. The Survive to Thrive grant program hopes to raise a total of $2 million by the end of May to support indie bookstores.
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Print Unit Sales Have Big Mid-March Gain
Print unit sales rose 37.4% in the week ended Mar. 20, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, but year-to-year comparisons are starting to get more complex, as sales at this time last year were becoming more affected by the spreading pandemic.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 29, 2021
Harlan Coben has the #2 book in the country with 'Win.' Plus debut author Angeline Boulley lands at #8 on our children's fiction list with the YA thriller 'Firekeeper's Daughter,' starring what she calls "an Indigenous Nancy Drew," and a trio of new self-help titles offer spring cleaning for the psyche.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Brain Lair Bookstore
South Bend, Ind.’s sole independent bookstore, Brain Lair Bookstore, may be only three years old, but its roots go back many years, to owner Kathy Burnette’s childhood in a rough Chicago neighborhood.
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Unit Sales Post More Big Weekly Gains
Print units rose 37.4% in the week ended March 20, 2021, over the same period in 2020. The jump came despite a 24.5% decline in sales in the juvenile nonfiction category; last year at this time, parents were buying educational workbooks in droves as schools closed.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 22, 2021
Walter Isaacson's 'The Code Breaker,' about Nobel Prize–winning CRISPR chemist Jennifer Doudna, is the #5 book in the country. Plus the heroine of Kate Quinn's latest historical cracks 'The Rose Code,' and Floret Farm's Erin Benzakein says it with dahlias.
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Unit Sales of Print Books Soared 36.5% Last Week
Though unit sales began softening a bit at this time last year because of the early impact of the pandemic, the spike in sales last week was mainly due to the continued demand for print books.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 16.6% in January
Bookstore sales were $797 million in January, down from $956 million a year ago. The 16.6% decline was only a slight increase over the December drop, and was another indication that bookstore sales declines may be levelling off.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 15, 2021
Sister Souljah has the #4 book in the country with ‘Life After Death,’ sequel to 1999’s ‘The Coldest Winter Ever.” Plus a trio of new books speak to lockdown pastimes, and the March book club picks hit our lists.
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March Starts with 34% Pop in Print Unit Sales
Fueled by huge gains for a host of Dr. Seuss titles, as well as solid results for several new books, unit sales of print books soared 34.2% in the week ended Mar. 6, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Cavalier House Books
We talk with John Cavalier, co-owner of Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, La. He and his wife grew the store out of a shed in his parents’ backyard.
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Dr. Seuss Books Ruled Last Week's Bestseller List
Fueled by huge gains for a host of Dr. Seuss titles as well as solid results for several new books, unit sales of print books soared 34.2% last week over the week ended March 8, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Green Apple Books to Downsize at Flagship Location
San Francisco’s Green Apple Books will consolidate space at its flagship Clement Street location by September, reducing the store’s overall size back to its original 1996 footprint.
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Moe's Booksellers Unionize
Employees at Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., announced that they have formed a union and joined the International Workers of the World.
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Book Club Picks for March 2021
Among this month's book club picks, Vox Book Club taps 'The Power' and B&N selects 'We Begin at the End.'
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 8, 2021
Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 fable, ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,’ is the #1 book in the country, and ‘Believe It’ by It Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima is #3. Plus a pair of buzzword-heavy diet books debut this week.
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Print Unit Sales Finish February with 26% Gain
With the help of strong backlist sales, unit sales of print books rose 26% in the week ended Feb. 27, 2021, over the similar week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Backlist Drives Print Book Unit Gains Higher Through February
Driven by strong backlist sales, unit sales of print books rose 26% last week over the week ended February 29, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. It was the largest week-over-week gain compared to 2020 so far this year, helping unit sales finish the first two months of 2021 with a 21.2% increase over the first two months of 2020.
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