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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 24, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Tapping into Innovation: Lessons for Booksellers
As new directions for bookselling evolve, the industry is increasingly looking to take advantage of the changes taking place across the entire retail spectrum.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending August 29, 2014
In the countdown to Labor Day, the pace at many bookstores hasn't slowed. Politics & Prose is readying for tomorrow's National Book Festival.
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Books-A-Million Has Solid Quarter
Books-A-Million reported that it cut its net loss for the second quarter ended August 2, 2014 to $3.0 million from $9.1 million in the comparable period last year.
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Laurel Book Store to Expand
The Oakland store is moving downtown in early October and quadrupling its space. To help defray costs she just launched an Indiegogo campaign.
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Ellora’s Cave CEO Confirms Amazon Sales Drop
Ellora’s Cave CEO Patty Marks confirmed the house is downsizing in the wake of what she described as "drastic" and unexplained declines in its e-book sales via Amazon.
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Earthquake Shakes Up Napa Bookstores
Books were flying off the shelves at two stores early Sunday morning, but not in the usual way. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake sent them tumbling.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 25, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 17, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Net Pricing: Is It Time to Take Prices off Book Covers?
Pointing to the need for pricing flexibility at a time when bookstores face a growing number of economic challenges, some booksellers question whether it’s time for publishers to stop printing suggested retail prices on book covers and dust jackets.
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Ellora’s Cave Cuts Staff, Blames Big Amazon Sales Drop
In a letter to her authors, Ellora’s Cave CEO Patty Marks blames the cuts on unexplained declines in e-book sales through Amazon.
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending August 22, 2014
Independents continue to grow with the addition of a second location for a particularly aptly named store, I Read Books.
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New Owner for Giovanni's Room
When the country's oldest LGBT bookstore reopens in a couple weeks, it will have a new name: Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni’s Room.
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B&N, Samsung Unveil Galaxy Tab 4 Nook
Barnes & Noble unveiled the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, a 7-inch tablet cobranded with hardware manufacturer Samsung Electronics, at a press conference at the B&N Union Square store in Manhattan.
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Make Way for New Children's Bookstore in Boston
The owners of the World's Only Curious George Store are opening a second picture-book concept store, the Make Way for Ducklings Store in Boston, Mass.
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Is Shakespeare & Co. in Danger of Extinction?
With the downtown store on Broadway closing in two weeks and the lease for the remaining store up for grabs, the New York City bookstore chain will soon be gone.
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Kensington, BAM Team to Sell New Paperback Line
Kensington Publishing has entered an exclusive partnership with the Books-A-Million bookstore chain to launch Lyrical High Notes, a new line that will release select titles from Kensington’s digital imprint in trade paperback editions.
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Iowa Bookseller Pumps Up Sales for Author's Memoir
About 25% of the sales of a Holt memoir by a debut author have been in Iowa's bookstores, due to the heroic efforts of a Decorah bookseller Kate Rattenborg.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 10, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Amazon vs Hachette: It’s Getting Nasty
The two-page ad that ran in the Aug. 10 issue of the 'New York Times,' which more than 900 authors signed calling for readers to email Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to air their displeasure at the company’s tactics in its terms dispute with Hachette Book Group, unleashed some of the harshest language yet in the months-long standoff.