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Astoria Bookshop to Open Next Week
With a boost from volunteers who have helped with painting and alphabetizing inventory, Astoria, Queens, will have its first general bookstore.
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'Find Waldo Local' II a Success
For the second year in a row, the July Find Waldo Local promotion boosted book sales, solidified the Shop Local movement on many Main Streets, and made a lot of kids very happy.
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June Bookstore Sales Drop 9.5%
According to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales in June dropped 9.5%, to $829 million from $916 million in June 2012. Bookstore sales for the first half of 2013 were down 1.5% to $6.06 billion.
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Overstock Quietly Ends Price War
With as little fanfare as it began, Overstock.com moved away from trying to undercut rival Amazon in the book market and is focusing on home goods.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending August 4, 2013
The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending July 28, 2013
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Spotlight on Book-Buying Behavior
Consumers paid less for books in all formats in 2012 than they did in 2009.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 12, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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'Cuckoo' Slips, But Stays #1
The Cuckoo’s Calling remained the top-selling print book in the country for the week ending August 4 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan despite a 29% drop in sales
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New Children's Bookstore to Open in Berkeley
When Mr. Mopps' Children's Books opens this October, Berkeley, Calif., will have its first children's bookstore.
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Sales Fall, Losses Rise at Indigo
Indigo Books & Music reported that its revenue was down 8.1% in its first quarter compared to the same quarter in the previous year and that its net loss increased to C$15 million from C$5.5 million a year ago.
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SIBA Gets Into Publishing
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is the first regional association to offer print-on-demand to its members.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 5, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending July 28, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Gottwals Books Tries Franchising
Over the past six years, Georgia-based Gottwals Books has gone from a single used bookstore in the town of Warner Robins to four 3,000 sq. ft. stores, each with 40,000–50,000 books.
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Galbraith, Rowling Go One-Two on Bestseller List
J.K Rowling, with the help of Robert Galbraith, had the two top-selling books for the week ended July 28 at outlets that report their print sales to Nielsen BookScan.
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Allison Hill Promoted to CEO at Vroman’s Bookstore
After working in executive capacities at Vroman's since 2004, Allison Hill is named CEO.
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Overstock Extends Pricing War
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne plans to keep up the pressure on Amazon by continuing the deep discounts through midnight August 7.
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Obama Talks Up Middle Class in Amazon Visit
Amazon could not buy the kind of positive publicity that it garnered during Tuesday’s almost two-hour visit by President Obama to its Chattanooga, Tenn., fulfillment warehouse to promote his proposals to “secure a better bargain” for the middle-class.
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Controversy Swirls Around Obama Speech at Amazon Facility
As President Obama prepares for a scheduled 2 pm EST speech today at an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee, setting out his proposals to jumpstart the economy with a combination of corporate tax cuts and job creation programs, controversy continues to swirl among booksellers.
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Village House of Books to Open in Los Gatos
Owners Cheryl and Steve Hare look forward to opening the only general bookstore in the Los Gatos community since Borders closed there in 2011.
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