Fall Regional Shows Get High Attendance—and High Marks
This fall's independent bookstore regional trade shows started off last week with two big virtual fairs held by three organizations—and did so swimmingly. more...Book Deals: Week of September 28, 2020
Swedish author Alex Schulman sells a novel to Doubleday in a high-six-figure preempt, St. Martin’s buys Therese Anne Fowler’s latest for seven figures, and more. more...
Bookstores Need More than Hope. They Need Sales. And Soon.
Despite expanding their services during the most challenging time for retailers in recent memory, booksellers enter the holiday season worried about forces beyond their control. more...Will Poetry Push This Publisher Through the Pandemic?
Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it. more...and more.
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BooksellingWith Challenges Ahead, New England Booksellers Stress Resilience
In an annual meeting and town hall that touched on the many issues and challenges that booksellers face today, New England Independent Booksellers Association members took up a message of resilience and looked ahead to 2021 with good spirits in spite of it all.
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Bookselling
This Week's Bestsellers: September 28, 2020
Bob Woodward has the #1 book in the country, and the third-biggest debut of the year, with ‘Rage.’ Plus 16 years after ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell,’ Susanna Clarke avoids the sophomore slump with ‘Piranesi,’ and ‘Three Keys’ by Kelly Yang is among the titles new to our children’s fiction list.
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Bookselling
Print Unit Sales Continue to Roll in Mid-September
Helped by the release of Bob Woodward’s Rage, unit sales of print books jumped 16.4% in the week ended Sept. 19, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Shows & Events
Fall Regional Shows Get High Attendance—and High Marks
This fall's independent bookstore regional trade shows started off last week with two big virtual fairs held by three organizations—and did so swimmingly.
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Publisher News
Will Poetry Push This Publisher Through the Pandemic?
Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it.
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Bookselling
Bookstores Need More than Hope. They Need Sales. And Soon.
Despite expanding their services during the most challenging time for retailers in recent memory, booksellers enter the holiday season worried about forces beyond their control.
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of September 28, 2020
Swedish author Alex Schulman sells a novel to Doubleday in a high-six-figure preempt, St. Martin’s buys Therese Anne Fowler’s latest for seven figures, and more.
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Religion
Loyola's Publisher Predicts More Kid's Books on Spirituality, Adventure
Loyola Press' Joellyn Cicciarelli says mysteries and fantasies can reach young readers about of faith and doubt.
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Publisher News
Macmillan Ups Baseline Salary to $42K
Macmillan Publishers U.S. will raise its entry-level salary to $42,000 a year starting December 27. The raise will apply to all incoming and existing employees.
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Financial Reporting
Club, Fair Declines Plague Scholastic
Cost cuts improved Scholastic's bottom line in the first quarter, but sales at book fairs and book clubs tumbled during the period, and are expected to remain low in the current quarter.
