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May Bookstore Sales Bounce Back
After falling in April, bookstore sales rose 6% in May over 2022, rising to $650 million from $613 million a year ago.
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The Bestselling Books of 2023 (So Far)
In the U.K., Harry Sussex is a prince and a duke. In the U.S., he’s the lord regent of the bestseller list, thanks to 'Spare.' But Colleen Hoover remains the bestselling queen.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 17, 2023
A viral TikTok sends a debut author's self-published YA murder mystery soaring. Plus a Legend of Zelda guide receives a royal reception, and new book club picks hit the lists.
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Print Book Sales Improve, Falling Only 1.6% Last Week
A flat sales performance by the adult category and smaller declines in the children’s segments than has been typical in recent weeks resulted in a smaller decline in total unit sales of print books last week.
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Global Book Sales Trends Remain Mixed
The new Global Bookselling Markets Report, published by the European and International Booksellers Federation, found that approximately half of the markets it monitors were on an upswing and that the other half were in decline.
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Bookstores in the Northeast Recover from Flooding
Two days after New England and the Mid-Atlantic were inundated with record rainfall that left parts of Vermont and other states flooded, booksellers in the region are recovering.
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Book Club Picks for July 2023
R.F. Kuang's publishing parody 'Yellowface' is a Reese’s Book Club pick, Thao Thai's 'Banyan Moon' gets the Read with Jenna nod, and more.
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Top 25 Overall Bestsellers: June 25–July 1, 2023
Here’s a peek at the top 25 books of the week. New titles include, at #1, yet another Colleen Hoover book—this one an updated edition of her self-published 2016 novel, 'Too Late.'
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Book Sales Continue to Slow Down in First Half of 2023
Unit sales dipped 2.7% in the first half of 2023 and were down 8.5% from the midpoint of 2021.
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South Brooklyn Bookstores Adapt to Community Needs
A growing crop of indie booksellers in the area are aiming to be multipurpose spaces for their neighborhoods.
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Despite a Colleen Hoover Reissue, Print Books Sales Fell 4.7% Last Week
Sales from a new edition of a Colleen Hoover novel were not enough to overcome huge sales racked up by Jenny Han's young adult titles last year.
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NYC Bookstore Yu and Me Crowdfunds $200K After Fire
The woman and Asian American–owned bookstore, in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, will require a total renovation over the next year due to a fire in a residential unit above its premises. It topped its goal of $150,000 overnight.
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Tattered Cover Names New Interim CEO
Tattered Cover has named Brad Dempsey interim CEO of the Denver bookstore chain, replacing CFO Margie Keenan, who served as interim CEO after former CEO and co-owner Kwame Spearman left in April to start a political career.
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Customers Race to Support Chicago Bookstore Shut by Holiday NASCAR Event
NASCAR's Chicago street race over the holiday weekend shut down Exile in Bookville, which sustained losses in the thousands—although online orders spiked thanks to customers hoping to support the store.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 3, 2023
'It Ends with Us' author Colleen Hoover invites readers to her Book Bonanza. Plus, NBA point guard Chris Paul scores with 'Sixty-One,' and Riley Sager is 'The Only One Left.'
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Barnes & Noble Workers at Main Brooklyn Store Join Union
After an 88% vote in favor of unionization, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union will represent more than 30 workers at the store when contract negotiations commence this year.
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Print Book Sales Weren't Pretty Last Week
Last year at this time, the Amazon Prime series 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' gave a sales surge to the Jenny Han books that inspired it. With nothing comparable occurring last week, unit sales of print books plunged 25% in the young adult fiction category and fell 4.8% overall from last year.
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Indigo Had C$49 Million Loss in Fiscal 2023 on Small Sales Decline
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's leading book retailer, reported that retail sales improved, as the company recovered from pandemic-era lockdowns, but online sales suffered, due in part to a cyberattack earlier this year. Markus Dohle has also joined the company board.
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This Week's Bestsellers: June 26, 2023
'The Five-Star Weekend' by beach-read queen Elin Hilderbrand is the #1 book in the country, with Bonnie Garmus’s 'Lessons in Chemistry' and Emily Henry's 'Happy Place' rounding out the top 3.
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Print Book Sales Fell 3.6% Last Week with Nonfiction Still Soft
A good showing by the adult fiction category was not enough to prevent unit sales of print books from falling 3.6% last week from the week ended June 17, 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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