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This Week's Bestsellers: October 24, 2022
Jimmy Fallon and Jennifer Lopez serve up a picture book 'Con Pollo,' #9 on our children's picture book list. Plus neuroscientist Friederike Fabritius advocates for 'The Brain-Friendly Workplace,' and clinical psychologists John and Julie Schwartz Gottman write 'The Love Prescription.'
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Ng Named ABA's Inaugural Indie Bookstore Ambassador
Celeste Ng, the author of three novels beloved by indie booksellers, was named the American Booksellers Association's inaugural bookstore ambassador, deputized to champion indies throughout the year.
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Ingram Says Shipping Error Was Unintentional
The Ingram Content Group says that a shipping mistake that replaced some orders for a pro-choice book with fundamentalist Christian titles was "completely unintentional" and not the result of a "rogue employee," as some reports had claimed.
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Independent Bookstore in New York Launches Publishing Division
The Hudson Valley-based Golden Notebook Bookstore will launch its publishing press next year with author Abigail Thomas's memoir 'Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing.'
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Ingram Backs Book.io, an NFT Book Marketplace
Book.io, which describes itself as “an NFT marketplace for buying, reading, and selling e-books and audiobooks,” is looking to help authors build new revenue streams, and has buy-in from Ingram.
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Print Sales Dropped 8% in Early October
Unit sales of print books fell 8% in the week ended Oct. 8, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 17, 2022
A trio of October book club selections make their debuts on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Adam Silvera goes back to the beginning with 'The First to Die at the End,' and Instagrammer Yung Pueblo sees the 'Lighter' side.
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August Bookstore Sales Rose 5.4%
Following two months of declines, bookstore sales rose 5.4% in August over August 2021, hitting $1.14 billion.
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Print Sales Fell 8% Last Week
Unit sales of print books dropped 8% last week as a 2% increase in the adult fiction category was offset by declines in all other segments.
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SIBA Holds Virtual Annual Meeting, Town Hall
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance held a virtual annual meeting and town hall Tuesday, with SIBA leadership demonstrating that the organization is adapting well to the post-pandemic industry.
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Book Club Picks for October 2022
Reese Witherspoon and 'Good Housekeeping' pick Celeste Ng's latest, Jenna Bush Hager spotlights Joanna Quinn's debut, and more.
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Print Book Sales Are Slipping
The decline in unit sales slowed in the third quarter as adult fiction sales soared, but sales are still down for the year so far.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 10, 2022
Kerri Maniscalco and Naomi Novik bring their popular, well-reviewed fantasies to a close. Plus Kate Atkinson and Chloe Gong respectively bring historical London and Shanghai to vivid life, and new cooking books from Jacques Pépin and others feed readers' appetites.
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Print Book Sales Fell 9% at End of September
Deep declines in adult nonfiction and juvenile categories and only a small gain in adult fiction resulted in a 9.6% drop in print sales last week compared to a year ago.
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Alex George Named 2022 Midwest Bookseller of the Year
Author Alex George, the owner of Skylark Bookshop in Columbia, Mo., was named Midwest Bookseller of the Year by the Midwest Indie Booksellers Association.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Third Eye Books
We talk with Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah, who own and operate Third Eye Books, a store in Portland, Ore., focused on anti-racism and social justice titles.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 4.2% in Late September
A 17.3% increase in adult fiction print unit sales was not enough to prevent print unit sales overall from falling 4.2% in the week ended Sept. 24, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 3, 2022
Richard Osman hits our hardcover fiction list at #3 with 'The Bullet That Missed,' his new Thursday Murder Club mystery. Plus Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer revisit favorite protagonists, and Colleen Hoover has a new(-ish) book.
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Print Sales Fell 4% Last Week
Unit sales of print books declined 4.2% last week, as good debuts in adult fiction were not enough to offset declines in adult nonfiction and children's fiction.
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Denver's BookBar to Close in January
Nicole Sullivan, the owner of Denver's BookBar, a bookstore and wine bar that she founded in 2013, announced that she will close the store on January 31 to focus more on her other business, the Bookies.
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