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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 18, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 26, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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The Zuckerberg Effect
Mark Zuckerberg is not Oprah Winfrey. It may not matter to publishing folk, though.
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The Hottest (and Coldest) Book Categories of 2014
The self-help and graphic novels categories had the fastest growth in print book sales among adult segments in 2014, and children's books saw a big boost thanks to Divergent and Frozen titles.
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Bookselling News Roundup
Less than one month into the new year, stores continue to open, including a third Vermont location for Phoenix Books and an eighth store for Gottwals Books and the Walls of Books.
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Mixed Results for Bricks-and-Mortar Stores with Digital Content
For many bricks-and-mortar bookstores, 2014 was a banner year, helped by the overall improvement in the sale of print books.
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SIBA Starts Year of Engagement
Today SIBA kicked off its B3! Building Better Booksellers program, which enables booksellers to earn points to defray the cost of attending its Discovery Show in September.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 11, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 19, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending January 16, 2015
Transition continues among college stores at the start of the second semester. Beginning in May, UMass, Amherst students will be ordering and renting textbooks from Amazon.
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November Bookstore Sales Dropped 2.5%
November bookstore sales fell 2.5%, to $736 million from $755 million in November 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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ABA Asks Bookstores to Support #JeSuisCharlie
The ABA is working to obtain copies of the next issue of 'Charlie Hebdo' for bookstores to carry; it is also encouraging booksellers to show their support on social media.
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Read It and Eat Bookstore to Open in Chicago
Read It and Eat, a bookstore that will specialize in books about food and cuisine, will open in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in April.
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What the Numbers Reveal About the 2014 Bestsellers
It was much easier to characterize the bestseller terrain in the two years before 2014.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 4, 2015
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen's Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 12, 2015
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending January 9, 2015
Indies could be headed into another good year, with a number of new stores opening, including Walls of Books in Zanesville, Ohio, and Mustard Seed in Bath, Maine.
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Store Holiday Sales Rose at B&N
For the nine week period ended January 3, 2015, sales through Barnes & Noble's retail physical stores plus BN.com rose 0.2%, hitting $1.1 billion.
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Holiday Sales Up at Books-A-Million
Books-A-Million reported that total sales for the nine week period ended January 3, 2015 were up 1.1% over the same period a year ago.