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Amazon Makes Cuts to Its Book Group
As part of a companywide effort to reduce costs, Amazon has eliminated an unspecified number of jobs in its Books business. Word of the reductions came in a letter sent yesterday to employees from CEO Andy Jassy describing “role eliminations” in the company's Books and Devices units.
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Another Bad Week for Print Book Sales
Unit sales of print books fell 17.1% last week compared to the week ended November 13, 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. It was the third consecutive week that sales fell by double digits compared to 2021.
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Bookstore Sales Edge Closer to 2019 Levels
Bookstore sales were up 8.5% over last year, reaching $6.45 billion, in the first nine months of 2022. The steady improvement in the year leaves bookstore sales 0.8% below pre-pandemic nine-month sales.
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Evanston's Bookends & Beginnings Moving After Rent Hike
Faced with a huge increase in rent from a new landlord, Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, Ill., is moving to a slightly larger space on a main street two blocks away from its current location.
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Unnamed Press and Rare Bird Now Double as Indie Booksellers
The two Los Angeles–based independent publishers opened North Figueroa Bookshop earlier this month.
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Fall Book Festivals Return
After two years of dealing with Covid restrictions, fall book festivals returned in earnest this year, providing readers opportunities to engage with some of publishing’s best-known authors.
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Indie Bookstores Adopt New Strategies for Growth
To find out what changes independent bookstores have made during the pandemic and are planning to keep, PW reached out to several.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 14, 2022
New book club picks include Katy Hays's debut novel, 'The Cloisters,' and a 10th-anniversary edition of Cheryl Strayed's 'Tiny Beautiful Things.' Plus Matthew Perry and Bono release memoirs, and Bob Dylan and Quentin Tarantino contemplate the greats in their respective fields.
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Print Book Sales Slide Continues
The soft fall sales season continued last week, with print unit sales falling 14.9% compared to the week ended November 6, 2021. Sales declined in all categories, including sales of adult fiction, which has been the best-performing segment this year.
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B&N to Open 16th New Store Next Week
Barnes & Noble is set to open a new store on November 16 in the Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Ill. It will be the 16th new outlet that B&N has opened this year.
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Wholesaling Online Via Faire
Faire, the online B2B marketplace, is attracting bookstores with its convenience and items that can be hard to find elsewhere.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 7, 2022
Cormac McCarthy has the #8 book in the country with 'The Passenger,' first in a two-volume work. Plus Siddhartha Mukherjee plays 'The Song of the Cell,' and cookbooks by Food Network stars Ina Garten and Kardea Brown debut on our lists.
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Literature Lovers Night Out Expands With New Bookstore Partnership
Literature Lovers Night Out, a speakers program launched in the Twin Cities in 2015, will return after a three-year interval to the Minneapolis suburbs by partnering on events with Cream & Amber in Hopkins, Minn.
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ABA Report Charts Damage Done to Retailers by Amazon's Expansion
A new study backed by the ABA found that the movement of dollars to Amazon and away from retailers displaced 136,000 shops, occupying 1.1 billion square feet of traditional commercial space in 2021. A further 1.7 million retail jobs were displaced.
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Print Book Sales Dropped 14.2% Last Week
Despite three books posting sales of more than 100,000 copies last week, unit sales of print books fell 14.2% compared to the week ended October 30, 2021 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Sales Fell 9.1% in Mid-October
Blockbuster sales of Colleen Hoover’s It Starts with Us were not enough to prevent overall unit sales of print books from falling 9.1% in the week ended Oct. 23, 2022, compared to the similar week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 31, 2022
Colleen Hoover has the #1 book in the country – and so much more – with 'It Starts with Us.' Plus new celeb memoirs include two by Harry Potter movie alums, and Jen Hatmaker and Phil Rosenthal each feed readers' need for new cookbooks.
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Regionals Update: MIBA Numbers Up, SIBA and NAIBA Move to In-Person Show
Several regionals are sharing good news with their memberships: while MIBA reports that its membership numbers are skyrocketing, SIBA announced that it will hold a joint show with NAIBA in-person in August 2023.
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Booksellers Thrilled to Get Back Together
In-person regional bookseller conferences came roaring back to life this fall with six high-energy shows.
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Print Sales Dropped 10.5% in Early October
Unit sales of print books fell 10.5% in the week ended Oct. 15, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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