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They Don't Call Them the Big Five for Nothing
The Big Five publishers held their usual tight grip on hardcover bestsellers in 2024, with one publisher taking a notable leap forward.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: February 3, 2025
Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller, ‘The Crash,’ tops our trade paperback list. Plus Neko Case plays confessor, brings the flood of emotions in her new memoir, and MSNBC host Chris Hayes sounds the alarm against ‘The Sirens’ Call.’
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Can a Nonprofit Model Work for Bookstores?
Community outreach is a cornerstone of independent bookselling, but it doesn’t come cheap. The Emerson Collective is helping bookstores find better ways to fund it
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Falling in Love in Indie Bookstores
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Brandeis University Press will publish 'Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes' by former PW bookselling editor Judith Rosen, which profiles 24 couples who proposed, or held their weddings, at independent bookstores.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: February 3, 2025
As fans snap up copies of ‘Onyx Storm,’ the #1 (and #2) book in the country, author Rebecca Yarros is regrouping, swiftly. Plus Han Kang’s first novel since her Nobel Prize win, ‘We Do Not Part,’ debuts on our list, and Aurora Ascher has sympathy for the devil.
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High Five Books in Massachusetts Turns Five
On a frigid evening earlier this month, affection and appreciation warmed a children’s bookshop in the Western Massachusetts village of Florence, where 30 local children’s book creators came together to fete High Five Books' owner Lexi Walters Wright.
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First Week Sales of ‘Onyx Storm’ Top One Million
The third volume in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series sold nearly 1.1 million copies of the deluxe edition and another 178,000 copies of the standard hardcover.
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Indie Booksellers Launch Ambitious Global Bookstore Crawl
Independent bookstores in more than 30 cities across six continents will participate in the first synchronized Global Bookstore Crawl on April 26, coinciding with Independent Bookstore Day in the U.S.
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Bookshop.org Debuts Its E-book Platform
The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 27, 2025
Horror writer Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,' debuts at the top of our hardcover fiction list. Plus Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings land at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'You Deserve to Be Rich,' and in her own words, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.'
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