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Porter Square Owners Sell Half Their Store to Employees
Porter Square Books owners Dina Mardell and David Sandberg are selling half their stake in their Cambridge, Mass., bookstore to their senior staff members.
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January Bookstore Sales Fell 9.1%
According to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales fell 9.1% in January 2018 compared to the first month of 2017. It was the sixth month in a row store sales fell compared to the previous year.
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Shakespeare & Co. to Open Three Stores This Year
Over the past three years the new owners of New York City's iconic bookstore have perfected their mix of café, books, and book machine. This summer they will expand the Shakespeare concept to Philadelphia with two more Manhattan locations to open later in the year.
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Juvenile Categories Drive 5% Unit Gain in Early March
Unit sales of print books in the week ended Mar. 4, 2018, were 5% higher than in the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Trump Presidency Reinvigorates Feminist Bookstores
While there are only a handful of feminist bookstores in the U.S., several of them report that the perfect storm of Donald Trump’s 2016 election and the subsequent #MeToo movement have reinvigorated their businesses.
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Indie Bookstore Cries Censorship After Gay Marriage Title Pulled from School Book Fair
Newbery Medalist Richard Peck's middle grade novel 'The Best Man' has sparked tensions in Athens, Ga., after complaints from parents led to the book's removal from an indie bookstore's display at a school book fair.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers List, March 2018
The bestselling titles from Smashwords in the month of March, 2018.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 12, 2018
Journalist Michelle McNamara’s posthumously published true crime investigation, 'I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,’ debuts at #5 in hardcover fiction. Plus Hot for Food vlogger Lauren Toyota publishers her first cookbook, and playwright and screenwriter David Mamet returns with his first novel in two decades.
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Conservative Activists Threaten To Burn Berkeley Bookstore
Berkeley's Revolution Books has been a favorite target of conservative activists and on March 3 a group threatened to burn down the bookstore.
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B&N Starts Nationwide Book Club
The Barnes & Noble Book Club will debut May 2, with Meg Wolitzer’s forthcoming novel 'The Female Persuasion' as its first title.
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No Quick Fix for B&N
Barnes & Noble's turnaround will be a multiyear effort at least.
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Juvenile Categories Post Double Digits Unit Gains
The Weekly ScUnit sales of print books rose 3% in the week ended Feb. 25, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 5, 2018
Mark Greaney’s ‘Agent in Place,’ the latest installment of his Gray Man series, debuts at #8 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus the 2018 Newbery and Caldecott Medalists get a print sales boost, and Alan Cumming brings a James Patterson character to TV life.
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B&N Will Open Five Prototype Stores in Fiscal 2019
The new stores will average about 14,000 sq. ft., making them roughly 12,000 sq. ft. smaller than the chain's current stores. The first prototype location is set to open in New Jersey in late summer.
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Indie Booksellers Grapple with Sherman Alexie Sexual Harassment Charges
Sherman Alexie has long been a champion of independent bookstores. Now, with the bestselling author facing sexual harassment charges leveled at him largely via social media, booksellers are grappling with how, and if, they should respond.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 26, 2018
Ahead of the ‘Red Sparrow’ movie release, ‘The Kremlin’s Candidate,’ which closes out Jason Matthews’s trilogy, debuts at #16 in hardcover fiction. Plus another book-turned-movie, Becky Albertalli’s ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,’ climbs the children’s and YA fiction chart, and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker offers ‘Enlightenment Now.’
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Rethinking College Stores
Can independent campus stores survive the onslaught from Follett and B&NE at a time when textbook sales continue to shrink?
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Board Book Sales Drive More February Unit Gains
A 31% leap in the print unit sales of board books in the week ended Feb. 18, 2018, helped drive total unit sales 5% higher than in the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Border Patrol Agent-Turned-Author Meets Protests in California
Activists have interrupted Francisco Cantú's tour for his buzzed-about new book 'The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border,' after descending upon a reading the author did in San Francisco.
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Booksellers Respond to Kid Lit Sexual Harassment Scandal
Booksellers are reacting in varied ways to the sexual harassment controversy that has engulfed the children's publishing world.
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