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This Week's Bestsellers: November 9, 2015
Adult coloring books take 12 of the top 25 trade paperback bestseller spots, with Johanna Basford’s ‘Lost Ocean' coming out on top. Plus fiction and nonfiction from all along the political spectrum (Rush Limbaugh, meet Ruth Bader Ginsburg).
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending November 6, 2015
This week saw the opening of an art bookstore in Chicago, and the reopening of a Michigan indie. Further south, in Raleigh, N.C., a bookstore-restaurant-brewery-florist shop is in the works.
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Louisiana Booksellers Challenge Online Age-Verification Law
Garden District Book Shop, Octavia Books, and the ABA are among the plaintiffs in a First Amendment suit leveled at a Louisiana law requiring websites to verify the age of Internet users, or face a $10,000 fine.
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Inside Amazon's First Physical Bookstore
On Tuesday, Amazon, the largest bookseller in the world, did something it has never done: it sold a book to a customer face-to-face. Despite appearances Amazon Books, the company's first branded retail storefront, is a far cry from the bookstore as we know it.
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PNBA’s Thom Chambliss to Retire
After more than 20 years at the helm of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, executive director Thom Chambliss will retire in February.
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Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore to Open Second Location
The six-year-old bookstore in the borough's Fort Greene neighborhood is branching out with a 2,100 sq. ft. location in nearby Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
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Amazon Opens First Bricks and Mortar Bookstore
The tech giant that pioneered online bookselling is going old school. Amazon unveiled its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore, Amazon Books, in Seattle’s upscale University Village shopping mall.
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Indigo Cuts Quarterly Loss as Sales Jump
Double digit growth in its general merchandise operation plus increases in its core book business led to a 8.8% increase in revenue at Indigo for its second quarter ended September 26, 2015 compared to last year’s second period.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending October 25, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Used Bookstores Bolster Bottom Lines with E-Commerce Partnerships
Rather than compete with mega-etailers, used booksellers are finding success by partnering with them and selling through their websites.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 2, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending October 30, 2015
Among other notable happenings this week are two Halloween openings, for Liberty Bay Books in Bremerton, Wash., and Nantucket Bookworks, which is holding its grand reopening after being closed nearly a year for renovations.
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New York City Indie Bluestockings Nears Funding Goal
With 18 days left on its $50,000 fall fix-up Indiegogo fundraiser, feminist bookstore Bluestockings has raised $37,800.
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ABA Tests ‘Buy Now’ Button to Up Sales Through IndieBound
The effort is aimed at improving the shopping experience offered by the organization's online retail platform, IndieBound.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending October 18, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Pew Survey Shows Adult Reading in Decline
Adult readership is down 4% from 2013, with 72% of American adults having read a book in the past year according to a new Pew survey. Young adults, meanwhile, were revealed as the nation's most avid readers.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 26, 2015
A pair of YouTube vloggers have the #4 book in the country, with ‘The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire.’ Plus Brandon Stanton tells more Humans of New York stories, Nobel and Booker Prize–winning authors get a sales boost, and much more.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending October 23, 2015
A new bookstore and coffee shop, Books & Brews, will open in Hurricane, W.V., while Long Beach, Calif., readies its first book bar, the Brass Lamp with books from Open Bookstore.
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What's Selling at One More Page Books
Chocoholics, oenophiles, and literature lovers are treated to one-stop shopping at One More Page Books in Arlington, Va., where Lelia Nebeker focuses on the store's offerings for readers. The book buyer talked up some of her favorite handsells of the fall season.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending October 11, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.