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This Week's Bestsellers: August 26, 2019
Dav Pilkey has the #1 book in the country with ‘For Whom the Ball Rolls,’ the latest entry in his Dog Man series. Plus National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ is #9 in the country, and Orange Prize winner Téa Obreht’s sophomore effort, ‘Inland,’ debuts in hardcover fiction at #12.
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Print Units Have Another Down Week in August
A big gain in the juvenile fiction category couldn’t stem the slide of weekly declines of print unit sales in August compared to last year.
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Three Bookstores Battle Local Government
In the last six months, three independent bookstores have received particularly large outpourings of support from their customers—yet all three say they were pushed to ask for help after becoming victims of state and local policies that put their businesses at risk.
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Colorado, Maryland Bookstores Get New Locations
Denver's Tattered Cover is adding a new location in the Origin Hotel in nearby Westminster, Colo. In Baltimore, Emma Snyder is moving the Ivy Bookshop, which she bought in January, two miles down the road into a church she recently acquired, with plans to expand the store's role in the local literary community.
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Amazon Responds to 'NYT' Story Questioning Its Policing of Copyright In Its Bookstore
After a story in Monday's 'New York Times' pointed to the availability of counterfeit books in Amazon's bookstore, marking the second piece in two months on the topic, Amazon said the real issue has to do with "differing copyright timing between countries."
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Indie Booksellers Celebrate First Bookstore Romance Day
More than 160 independent bookstores celebrated the first Bookstore Romance Day on August 17 with author events, book clubs, and panel discussions that emphasized a growing embrace for a genre that once received scant attention in independent bookstores.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 19, 2019
The news of Toni Morrison’s death on August 5 led to an outpouring of tributes from colleagues and admirers, and renewed focus on her body of work. Plus Ruth Ware earns her first PW starred review and the #7 spot in the country with ‘The Turn of the Key,’ and Kitten Lady Hannah Shaw debuts with ‘Tiny but Mighty.’
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Print Unit Sales Fell 1.9% in Early August
Declines in adult nonfiction and young adult fiction were deep enough to offset gains in other categories, leading to a 1.9% drop in print unit sales for the week ended Aug. 10, 2019.
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Buzz Builds for Atwood 'Handmaid's Tale' Follow-up
Author Margaret Atwood's forthcoming sequel to her bestselling novel is expected to be the big book of early fall.
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Bookstore Sales Dropped 5.1% in First Half of 2019
Bookstore sales finished a soft first half of the year, with sales falling 5.1% compared to the same period in 2018. June sales were off 4.9%.
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Indigo Sees Another Quarterly Sales Drop
Sales at Indigo, Canada's leading book retailer, continue to slide, with the company reporting a total sales decline of 6.3% for the first quarter of its current 2020 fiscal year.
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Chicagoland Booksellers Partner to Open Store
Veteran bookseller Javier Ramirez, who has worked for Chicagoland's most renowned indies in the past 25 years, is partnering with another bookseller, Mary Mollman, to open their own store in Chicago's West Loop.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 12, 2019
‘The Art of Racing in the Rain,’ Garth Stein’s canine-narrated 2008 hit, zooms onto the big screen. Plus Shari Lapena jumps to the #12 spot in hardcover fiction with ‘Someone We Know,’ and psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson sees ‘Signs’ at #18 in hardcover nonfiction.
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Units Dip 1.8% at the Start Of August
A 3.3% increase in juvenile fiction print unit sales in the week ended Aug. 3, 2019, compared to the similar week last year, was not enough to offset declines in the other major categories, leading to a 1.8% drop overall, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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800-CEO-Read Adopts New Name
Milwaukee-based 800-CEO-READ, which specializes in bulk book sales, has changed its name to Porchlight Book Company to reflect its expansion beyond selling only business books.
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Booksellers Purchase Cabot St. Books
Booksellers Meg Wasmer and Julie Karaganis have purchased Cabot St. Books & Cards in Beverly, Mass., and will rename the store Copper Dog Books.
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Filling the B&T-Shaped Gap
Various industry members are working to ensure that B&T’s withdrawal from trade wholesaling will not disrupt the fall selling season.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers June 2019
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 5, 2019
The 2018 back-to-school picture book ‘We Don’t Eat Our Classmates’ is the #8 book in the country, thanks to some timely promotion. Plus Laura Lippman’s latest Baltimore crime novel, ‘Lady in the Lake,’ stirs up local interest, and ‘Ask Again, Yes’ is the summer reading pick of ‘The Tonight Show.’
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