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Durham's Letters Bookshop Transitions to Community-Owned Cooperative
Founded in 2013, Letters Bookshop in Durham, N.C., is transforming from a privately owned business to a community-supported cooperative, selling shares for $116, in an aim to sustain the store amid a challenging retail environment.
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Book Club Picks for August 2024
Novels by Alison Espach, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Rainbow Rowell are among this month's selections by the nation's biggest book club purveyors, from Barnes & Noble and Jenna Bush Hager to 'Good Morning America' and Reese Witherspoon.
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Derek Holland Named Managing Director of Tattered Cover
The 35-year veteran has been tapped to oversee operations and revitalize the Denver-based bookstore chain in the wake of its bankruptcy and acquisition by Barnes & Noble.
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East Bay Booksellers Destroyed by Early Morning Fire
Firefighters arrived at the bookstore’s 5433 College Avenue location just before 5:30 a.m. on July 30, and Bay Area media described the business as a total loss. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
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TikTok Drives Growth at U.K. Online Retailer Books2Door
U.K. online book retailer Books2Door reported sales of £2.7 million in the first six months of 2024, a 38% increase compared to the same period in 2023. The company credits TikTok for giving it a significant boost.
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'Hillbilly Elegy' Sales Soared Last Week; Sales of Books by Kamala Harris Growing
The 2016 title by Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance sold more than 197,000 copies last week according to Circana BookScan and an estimated 650,000 copies according to publisher HarperCollins. Sales for titles by Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, are seeing a “surge in demand,” per her publisher, Penguin Random House.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: July 22, 2024
‘A Death in Cornwall,’ Daniel Silva’s lastest Gabriel Allon spy thriller is the #3 book in the country. Plus Sarah Beth Durst makes a cozy foray into romantasy with ‘The Spellshop,’ and YA author Tricia Levenseller embraces ‘The Darkness Within Us.’
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Always Here Bookstore Shows Up for LGBTQ Readers
Always Here Bookstore, a pop-up in Portland, Ore., aims to be a literary oasis for queer, trans, Latinx, and neurodivergent people of all ages. While they search for a bricks-and-mortar home, co-owners Rafael Hart and John Hart want Always Here to be a go-to source for books with LGBTQ authors and queer and trans content.
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This Week’s Bestsellers: Week of June 30, 2024
‘Reckless’, the latest YA romantasy from Lauren Roberts, is the #1 book in the country. Plus some new book clubs picks make strong showings on our lists, and we’ll get right to reading them after mixing up some ‘Freezer Door Cocktails.’
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Customer Traffic Improving at Books-A-Million, Half Price Books
Data from Placer.ai shows that, while both bookstore chains have had some successes in increasing customer traffic, their gains in 2024 trail that of Barnes & Noble.
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Book Club Picks for July 2024
Barnes & Noble and Read with Jenna pick two distinct titles featuring kidnappings in the year 1975—the former in the Adirondacks, the latter in Missouri—and more in this month's selections.
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With Fantasy on Fire, Print Book Sales Are Catching Up to 2023
Books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros, among the bestselling books of 2024 so far, sparked a huge increase in the adult fantasy category and helped keep print sales roughly flat with the first half of 2023.
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The Future of Children’s Bookselling
Forward-thinking booksellers are reinventing community programming staples, from author visits to subscription boxes.
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Barnes & Noble Education Puts a Wrap on a Turbulent Fiscal 2024
The college bookstore operator closed the fiscal year ended April 27, 2024, with a smaller loss than fiscal 2023, new financing, a new CEO, and a new board.
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Report Finds Customer Traffic Rising at Barnes & Noble
A new report by a market intelligence firm, whose services include store foot traffic analysis, found that customer visits at Barnes & Noble locations have increased every month but one since November 2023 compared to the prior year.
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Bookstores Challenge Amazon with Olympic Campaign
The ABA has unveiled "Indies Take The Gold," an Olympics-themed marketing campaign encouraging people to shop at independent bookstores on Amazon Prime Days, July 16 and 17. The Paris summer Olympics begin July 26.
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Cover to Cover Books for Young Readers Announces New Owner
The Columbus, Ohio–based children's bookstore, one of the country's oldest, has announced that it was sold to store manager Bryan Loar, a former librarian, in December.
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Print Book Sales Rose 5% in May
After a lackluster start to the year, unit sales of print books have improved in recent months, and were up 5% in May over a year ago at outlets that report to BookScan. A BookScan analyst said that if current trends last, summer sales could top those in 2023.
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An Online Feminist Bookstore Sets Up Shop in Oakland
The Womb House Books bricks-and-mortar store, which opened on June 15, features the carefully curated, women-focused vintage titles that are the Etsy shop's bread and butter, with the addition of frontlist books. Owner Jessica Ferri is doing it all on her own—and loving every minute.
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Black Garnet Books in St. Paul Goes on the Market
Dionne Sims, who opened Black Garnet Books in St. Paul, Minn., to sell books by BIPOC authors in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is selling the store to return to school and focus on writing.
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