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This Week's Bestsellers: February 4, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Gambling on Book Clubs at the Mohegan Sun
Sue McCann’s Essex Books in Ivoryton, Ct., may be small, but she is coproducing one of the area’s largest book club gatherings, the Big Book Club Getaway at Mohegan Sun Resort this weekend.
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Cambridge's Lorem Ipsum Could Close This Weekend
In November, used bookstore Lorem Ipsum in Cambridge, Mass., went on the market. Now it's turning to Indiegogo to raise money to pay its back rent, or close this weekend.
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S&S, B&N in Dispute over Terms
Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble are locked in a dispute over terms.
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B&N is "Fully Committed" to Retail
Barnes & Noble has reacted to an article in the Wall Street Journal that quotes B&N retail group CEO Mitchell Klipper as saying the bookstore chain will have 450 to 500 stores in 10 years by stressing that the company’s management “is fully committed to the retail concept for the long term.”
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 20, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 28, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Grub Street’s Castellani Practices What He Teaches
Over the past decade, Christopher Castellani—artistic director of Grub Street in Boston, one of the country’s largest literary centers—has written a trio of novels about an Italian immigrant family, the Grassos, a family much like his own.
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Ingram Consumer Direct Program Has Something for Everyone
Ingram Content Group has been in the direct-to-consumer business since 2003, and as more publishers sell directly to consumers and retailers’ online businesses grow, Ingram’s business has evolved to permit different types of fulfillment.
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Obituary: Bookseller & Musician Craig Lieske (1964-2013)
Athens, Ga.-based musician Craig Lieske died on January 18; he was 48. In addition to being a well-known area musician, he was a strong supporter of the Avid Bookshop.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 21, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Beyond Book Rental: The Next Big Thing on Campus
Textbook rentals have grown exponentially over the past few years.
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News from ABA: Growing & Shopping Local
The independent channel continues to grow with the addition of 40 new stores and branches last year. The impact of those stores on the local economy is more than three times that of chains.
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Penguin Joins Espresso Book Machine Network
Penguin Group (USA) is the latest publisher to make a selection of titles, both children's and adult, available through the EBM's “digital-to-print at retail" sales channel.
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November Bookstore Sales Rose 3%
Bookstore sales rose 3.3% in November, to $965 million, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. With the November gain, bookstore sales were down just under 1%, at $13.51 billion, for 2012 with one month to go in the year.
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NAIBA Sets 2013 Trade Show Dates
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association will hold its 2013 fall trade show in New Jersey again this year at the Somerset Doubletreefrom September 30-October 2.
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A Look at a Year of Bestsellers
No one would have been able to predict at the start of 2012 that a BDSM erotic romantic trilogy—Fifty Shades—would set new records for book sales and change/spice up what women worldwide would admit to be reading, many for the first time.
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The Wal-Mart Effect
Nielsen BookScan began including book sales from Wal-Mart in its service starting with the week ending January 6, 2013, and the addition shed at least some light on the impact that the world’s largest retailer has in the book indusstry.
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Quebec Weighs Price Fixing
On August 22, 2012, 13 days before Quebecers went to the polls in one of the most hotly contested provincial elections of the past two decades, Quebec’s book industry launched its One Price for Books campaign (noslivresàjusteprix.com).
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