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This Week's Bestsellers: December 11, 2023
Dav Pilkey's fifth Cat Kid Comic Club volume, 'Influencers,' is the #1 book in the country. Plus Nicole "the Holistic Psychologist" LePera returns with 'How to Be the Love You Seek,' and Lynn Painter, who writes rom-coms for teens and adults, has her best first week yet with 'Betting on You.'
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Holiday Book Sales Have Another Good Week
Holiday sales of print books followed a small increase over Thanksgiving week with a 4.2% gain last week over the week ended December 3, 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 4, 2023
'Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography,' now in its seventh month on sale, is the #7 book in the country. Plus Snoop Dogg and Earl “E-40” Stevens serve up a new cookbook, 'Goon with the Spoon,' and Skyward series author Brandon Sanderson remains 'Defiant.'
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A Primer for Protecting and Supporting Bookstores
‘How to Protect Bookstores and Why,’ the new book by The Raven bookstore co-owner Danny Caine, offers strategies for booksellers and their customers to keep indie stores kicking.
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The Holiday Season Looks Promising for Indie Bookstores
Independent bookstores saw steady sales over the shopping spree that increasingly characterizes the three days after Thanksgiving, which brought with them a much-needed confidence boost for booksellers going into the holiday season.
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Suzanne Collins, Rebecca Yarros Drove Print Book Sales Up over Thanksgiving
Titles in the Hunger Games and Empyrean series sold in big numbers last week, leading to a 1.4% increase in sales of print books over 2022.
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Grand Gesture Books Goes Big on Romance
Bookseller Katherine Morgan has founded her own online bookstore—all while working two gigs at Bookshop.org and Powell's City of Books.
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Workers at Two More B&N Stores Vote to Unionize
The union drives at Barnes & Noble are spreading beyond East Coast stores, to California and the Midwest, as workers at locations in San Jose, Calif., and Bloomington, Ill., have voted join unions.
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Kristin Rasmussen and Ann Seaton Are Moving On from CALIBA
After co-directing CALIBA since 2021, Rasmussen is leaving to become a Scholastic district sales rep, while Seaton will stay on a for a period to facilitate the association's leadership change.
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Black-Owned Bookstores in the Twin Cities
Black entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities build solidarity through bookselling.
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