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This Week’s Bestsellers: June 30, 2025
E. Jean Carroll offers a plaintiff’s-eye view in Not My Type. Plus Ashley Poston’s latest romance, Sounds Like Love, takes the #4 spot on our trade paperback list, and Elyce Arons recalls her longtime friendship and business partnership with the late fashion designer Kate Spade.
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Independent Publishers Are Fed Up with Barnes & Noble
While presses of all stripes are glad that James Daunt has put the largest bricks-and-mortar bookstore chain in the U.S. back on its financial feet, many indies feel deliberately left out of the retailer’s revival.
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Bookstores Take Pride in Banned Books
As Pride Month 2025 comes to a close, we’re spotlighting some indie bookstore displays around the country that mix LGBTQ+ pride with frequently challenged titles.
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Harvard Book Store Union Secures ‘Record’ New Contract
After more than three months of negotiations, approximately 30 unionized workers at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., have secured a new contract that includes, among other benefits, increased starting salaries and a “record raise” for current employees.
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Children’s Institute 2025: ‘More Important Now Than Ever’
The American Booksellers Association’s Children’s Institute 2025 took place in Portland, Ore., June 11–14, with keynotes from Samira Ahmed, Mac Barnett, Mychal Threets, and a panel of LGBTQ+ authors.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: June 16, 2025
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere sits atop our hardcover fiction list. Plus Molly Jong-Fast’s staggering new memoir explains How to Lose Your Mother, and our children’s fiction list welcomes several new YA releases.
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Children's Institute 2025: Championing Ideas Over Ideology
This year’s Children’s Institute has begun in sunny Portland, Ore., with a welcome from American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill and an earnest keynote from “library joy” proponent Mychal Threets.
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Book Club Picks for June 2025
Good Morning America selects Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest romance, Read with Jenna highlights Claire Lynch’s debut novel, and more.
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Center for Fiction Staff Win Union Recognition
Employees of the Brooklyn bookstore and literary hub have won voluntary union recognition from management and will begin contract negotiations in the coming weeks, joining the growing number of booksellers organized under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
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Barnes & Noble Makes Change in Nook Leadership
Replacing Susan McCulloch with Jennifer Perry is the latest move at the bookselling chain in its pivot to focus its resources on its bricks-and-mortar stores.
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