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This Week's Bestsellers: August 15, 2022
'Long Live the Pumpkin Queen,' a paranormal YA romance based on 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' is the #6 book in the country. Plus the August book club picks hit our hardcover fiction list, and BookTok is atwitter over 'Husband Material.'
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Half Price Books Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Half Price Books, a Texas-based company, has firmly established itself as the nation’s third-largest bookstore chain with 121 stores.
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Print Sales Dipped in Early August
A double-digit increase in adult fiction sales and gains in YA were not enough to offset declines in adult nonfiction and the juvenile categories, leading to a 2.1% drop in unit sales of print books in the week ended Aug. 6, 2022.
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Print Book Sales Dipped Last Week
A double-digit sales increase in adult fiction sales and higher young adult sales were not enough to offset declines in adult nonfiction and the juvenile categories, leading to a 2.1% dip in print sales last week compared to the week ended August 7, 2021.
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New Rooms for Debate at Joint Bookstore Conference
The just-concluded New Voices New Rooms joint virtual gathering of the New Atlantic and Southern Independent Booksellers Associations delved into such issues as book banning, de-escalating confrontations, and ways to generate additional revenue.
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Indigo Reports 18.9% Rise in Revenue for the Quarter
A huge increase in sales through its physical stores offset a decline in online sales, leading to a 18.9% increase in total sales at Indigo Books & Music in the quarter ended July 2, 2022 compared with the same period of 2021.
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From the Archive: June 8, 1992
David McCullough, the author of 12 bestselling books, died August 7 at age 89. PW caught up with McCullough in 1992 shortly after his sixth book, 'Truman,' was released by the only publisher he ever had, Simon & Schuster.
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Book Club Picks for August 2022
The latest from Jamie Ford, a debut novel by Anthony Marra, and two Jane Austen classics are among the titles selected by book clubs across the country for the month of August.
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Binc Issues Plea for Flood Victims
Binc issued a plea to donors this past weekend, asking them to contribute to the organization to help booksellers affected by flooding after torrential rains hit parts of Missouri and Kentucky.
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U.K.'s Gardners Launches U.S. Wholesale Company
The Little Group, the parent company of Gardners, the U.K.’s largest book wholesale and book distribution company, has launched Gardners US. The new distribution company is based in Florida and offers 200,000 titles for U.S. delivery within 3-5 days.
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