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Tracking Amazon: Killer Book Climbs the Chart
A memoir by a man who claims his father was the Zodiac Killer, kept under lock and key by HarperCollins for months, rocketed up Amazon's bestseller chart on May 13, the book's publication date.
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BAM Steps Into Hachette, Amazon Fray
While Amazon slow-tracks HBG titles, at least one chain is stepping up HBG's presence.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending May 4, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 12, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Hastings Fights Digital Disruption
Competition from digital editions has put pressure on more than one bricks-and-mortar retailer, and that trend is largely behind the decision by Hastings Entertainment to find a merger partner, according to documents filed by the company in connection with its pending acquisition by Joel Weinshanker, whose National Entertainment Collectibles Association owns 12% of Hastings’s stock.
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CampusBookRentals Rebrands for Growth
Renamed Sidewalk, the company is laying the groundwork to reinvigorate campus stores.
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Amazon Expands Sunday Delivery
Amazon has opened up Sunday delivery to an additional 15 cities.
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Indigo Named Bookseller for New Toronto Fair
Indigo Books and Music will be the official bookseller for the new Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair, which is set for for November 13-16 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
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A Triumphant California Bookstore Day
A year in the planning, California Bookstore Day proved to be a success for participating stores, all of which demonstrated significant sales increases.
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Retailers Finding Space for Diverse Range of Titles
When shelf space abounded at bricks-and-mortar locations, it was not uncommon for booksellers to stock political books that matched their own ideological leanings.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 27, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 5, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Copy Shop Opens Bookstore in Amherst
On May 1 Collective Copies, a worker-owned print shop in Western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, will hold the grand opening of its Off the Common Bookshop.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 20, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Teresa Rolfe Kravtin: PW 2014 Rep of the Year
This year’s PW Rep of the Year award winner, Teresa Rolfe Kravtin, a commission rep with Southern Territory Associates since 2002, owes it all to Faith—or at least a good part of it.
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Green Apple Books: PW Bookstore of the Year
Twenty years ago, if someone had told Pete Mulvihill, Kevin Ryan, and Kevin Hunsanger that they would one day own Green Apple Books, the store where they then worked, all three of them would have been “gob-smacked”—much like their reaction last month when they were told that their San Francisco indie had been selected as PW’s 2014 Bookstore of the Year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 28, 2014
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Upshur Bookstore to Open in DC
Washington's Petworth area, home to George Pelecanos's fictional Detective Strange, will get a bookstore in September.
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Book, Magazine Sales Fell 9% at BAM
Sales of books and magazines fell about 9% at Books-A-Million in the year ended February 1, 2014 compared to the prior year.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending April 13, 2014
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.