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This Week's Bestsellers: September 20, 2021
Sally Rooney's 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' is the #1 book in the country. Plus 'The Hawthorne Legacy' by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the week's seventh bestselling title, and the September book club picks are out and on our lists.
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Print Unit Sales Dipped in Early September
Strong sales of adult fiction were not enough to prevent unit sales of print books from falling 1.2% in the week ended Sept. 11, 2021, compared to the similar week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Unit Sales Slipped 1.2% Last Week
Another strong performance by adult fiction was not enough to prevent unit sales of print books from falling 1.2% last week compared to the week ended September 12, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookstore Sales Soar Again in July
Bookstore sales jumped 63.8% in July over a year ago. Sales were $716 million, making this the highest July total since 2012.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 13, 2021
'Washington Post' investigative reporter Craig Whitlock has the #6 book in the country with 'The Afghanistan Papers.' Plus a cookbook and party guide inspired by 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' also lands in our top 10, and contemporary romance author Helen Hoang makes her first appearance on our lists.
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Print Sales Dip in Early September
Unit sales of print books fell 5.2% in the week ended Sept. 4, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Profile: Children’s Book Cellar
When Ellen Richmond looks out the front window of the Children’s Book Cellar in Waterville, Maine, she sees a main street torn up by equipment but she also sees what it will be like when the work is finished.
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Adult Fiction Couldn't Save Last Week's Print Book Sales
With all categories except adult fiction having declines, unit sales of print books fell 5.2% in the week ended September 4, 2021 from the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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How TikTok Makes Backlist Books into Bestsellers
Books like Colleen Hoover's 2016 novel 'It Ends with Us' are blowing up with BookTok influencers—and seeing huge sales spikes that often send titles to the top of the bestseller lists.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 2.3% at End of August
Increases in fiction sales were not enough to offset another round of declines in nonfiction, leading to a 2.3% drop in unit sales of print books in the week ended Aug. 28, 2021,
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