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Bookstores in America, 2013: A State-by-State Guide
California may have the most bookstores, but Montana is tops on a per-capita basis.
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BEA 2013: Town Hall and Annual Meeting: The Bookstores Are Alright
ABA CEO Oren Teicher’s report at the annual meeting offered news of a segment coming back: with membership up for the fourth year in a row and strong finances.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 27, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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New Guide Navigates World of Kids' Books
Released in April, The Barnes & Noble Guide to Children's Books by Kaylee N. Davis, offers evaluations of 1,000-plus titles, guidelines for books in different categories, and essays by 20 children's authors and illustrators.
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Revenue Fell 4% at Indigo
Revenue for the fiscal year ended March 30 fell 4.4% at Indigo Books & Music, to C$893 million, with the Canadian chain attributing the decline primarily to lower physical book and e-reader sales.
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Slow Start for Books-A-Million
Sales for the first quarter ended May 4 fell 7.4%, to $104.5 million, at Books-A-Million and the net loss increased to $3.7 million from $1.9 million in last year’s first quarter.
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S&S Streamlines Coop Through New Portal
Simon & Schuster has unveiled a new portal for booksellers that will give them access to promotional funds and make it easier for them to collect information on titles.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending May 19, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Rowman & Littlefield Launches E-bookstore
Rowman & Littlefield has opened its e-bookstore, going live with roughly 12,000 titles.
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Updates for Indies: Powell's Renovates; Politics & Prose Launches Lit Mag
Powell's Books is doing a "seismic" update to its flagship store, which occupies a city block in Portland; Politics & Prose launches literary journal.
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Above the Treeline Branches Out
Above the Treeline, which introduced its Edelweiss digital catalogue database to the industry at BookExpo America in 2009, continues to add to the services it provides to the 140 companies it works with, as well as to its 34,000 registered users.
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Children's Book Week 2013: A Bookstore Photo Essay
Here's a look at the May 13–19 celebrations, held in more than 50 cities across the U.S.
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Borders Gift Card Holders to Get Nothing
The Borders bankruptcy plan will continue, without payments for any of the unredeemed $210.5 million on approximately 17.7 million outstanding gift cards.
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E-book Sales Were 15% of Canadian Market in 2012
BookNet Canada's latest consumer survey results suggests that e-book unit sales in Canada accounted for about 15% of the market.
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Barefoot Books Stops Selling to Amazon
Seven years after Barefoot Books in Cambridge, Mass., cut off Barnes & Noble and Borders, it announced that it has terminated its relationship with Amazon in North America and in the U.K.
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Philly Bookstore to Open Next Week
After the closing of two Borders stores and a Barnes & Noble, the Main Line is getting a new general store in time for the U.S. Open.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending May 12, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Losses Lead to Restructuring at Hastings
Hastings Entertainment reported a revenue decline of 5% in the first quarter ended April 30 and a net loss of $2.2 million compared to net income of $833,000 in last year’s first quarter.
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Trade Books a Winner in 2012
Total book industry sales fell to $27.12 billion in 2012, down by just under 1% from the prior year.