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This Week's Bestsellers: January 4, 2016
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending December 23, 2015
As the year draws to a close, booksellers continue to make plans to open new stores in places across the country, including New York City’s Lower East Side.
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Monthly StatShot, August
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending December 13, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 21, 2015
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending December 18, 2015
New stores are opening in Midlothian, Va.; Anchorage; Plattsburgh, N.Y.; and Houston, Mo.
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Amazon Bottlenecks Frustrating Indie Publishers
This is the season in which the entire book industry depends upon consumer holiday purchases to drive sales and, for some, issues at Amazon are leaving their hottest titles languishing on shipping docks and sitting in truck trailers.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending December 6, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 14, 2015
'Humans of New York: Stories’ is the #2 book in the country, selling seven times as many print units this week as last week. Plus J.K. Rowling (and Newt Scamander) take three of our children’s list spots, David Pogue teaches readers how to peel a banana, and much more.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending December 11, 2015
New stores are opening this month in Gardner, Mass., and Sandy, Utah.
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October Bookstore Sales Rose 6.9%
Bookstore sales rose 6.9% in October over October 2014, hitting $747 million in the month.
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Children's Holiday Sales 2015: Picture Books and Middle Grade Top YA
We spoke with children's booksellers across the country about how they fared at the start of the busy holiday season, and found out what their early strong sellers have been.
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Maine Indie Breaks Records with 'A Man Called Ove'
Nonesuch Books & Cards, along with its second location in South Portland, have sold 1,000 copies of the Swedish paperback, making the novel the store's top seller since its May release.
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Retailers Object to New Internet Tax Act
The Retail Industry Leaders Association opposes legislation in which the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act inserted and says that it would "rob" Main Street retailers of the chance to level the sales tax playing field.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending November 29, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 7, 2015
Carly Simon’s memoir—which among other disclosures finally confirms one of the men who’s “so vain”—debuts on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Black Friday boosts numbers for several top-selling titles, James Patterson’s Alex Cross scores a bestseller hat trick, and much more.
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Coloring Books Drive Big Holiday Sales at Independent Booksellers
The enduring popularity of coloring books for adults and a successful Small Business Saturday got the holiday season off to a strong start for independent booksellers.
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PW Notables Of the Year: YouTube Celebrities
Concerned that screen time is cannibalizing reading time? Consider this: 2015’s top-selling humor book for adults, per Nielsen BookScan, was written by a YouTube celebrity.
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PW Notables Of the Year: Joyce Meskis
This July, Joyce Meskis began a two-year process of turning over the reins of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver to married industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending December 4, 2015
New stores are opening in Philadelphia; Decatur, Ga.; Rosalyn, Ore.; and Dorchester, Mass.