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This Week's Bestsellers: December 20, 2021
Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman has the #1 book in the country with her first collection of verse, 'Call Us What We Carry.' Plus Jimmy Chin, the Oscar-winning codirector of 2018’s 'Free Solo,' takes readers 'There and Back,' and Reese's Book Club makes a 'Lucky' pick with Marissa Stapley's latest.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 12.2% Last Week
With only the adult fiction segment posting an increase, unit sales of print books fell 12.2% last week compared to the week ended December 12, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookstore Sales Jumped 53.4% in October
Bookstore sales increases picked up the pace in October, with sales jumping 53.4% over 2020, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Hudson’s Book Business Takes Flight
The airport bookseller welcomes the return of travel in book sales.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 13, 2021
Brené Brown has the #1 book in the country with 'Atlas of the Heart,' a look at emotional intelligence. Plus James S.A. Corey's Expanse series finishes strong with 'Leviathan Falls,' and Hervé Le Tellier's 'The Anomaly' lands on our list in its second week on sale.
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Print Sales Dipped in Early December
Unit sales of print books slipped 0.2% in the week ended Dec. 4, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Sales Slipped Last Week
Unit sales of print books dipped 0.2% last week compared to the week ended December 5, 2020, ending a long string of weekly sales growth. Only adult fiction and young adult fiction had sales increases over last year.
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Binc Fundraising Efforts Head to Finish Line
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation says that it has reached its $100,000 goal in its matching gift challenge, but is still $200,000 short of its annual fundraising target.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 9.7% in Late November
Driven once again by gains in fiction, unit sales of print books rose 9.7% in the week ended Nov. 27, 2021, over the similar week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Zenith Bookstore
Zenith Bookstore in Duluth, Minn., sells both new and used books, and has become a community hub in a part of the city where residents never expected to have a bookstore.
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This Week's Bestsellers: December 3, 2021
Diana Gabaldon has the #1 book in the country with her ninth Outlander novel, 'Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.' Plus Brandon Sanderson's latest Skyward novel, 'Cytonic,' lands at #3 on our children's fiction list, and 'The Wheel of Time' Prime Video series gets its first tie-in edition.
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Unit Sales Rose 9.7% Last Week Led by Adult Fiction
Facing difficult comparisons to last year when Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' was piling up huge sales numbers, unit sales still increased 9.7% last week over 2020 as adult fiction sales jumped 35.3%.
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Manga and YA Fuel B&N Black Friday Boom
Black Friday weekend was good for Barnes & Noble, continuing a trend of double-digit sales growth this year. The company attributed the increase to solid trade book sales through the weekend.
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Indies Enter Holidays Confident
Despite a number of concerns, many of the more than three dozen indies contacted by PW posted strong Thanksgiving weekend sales increases compared with 2019 and 2020, and even booksellers whose stores saw declines said they were cautiously optimistic about the weeks ahead.
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Indie Bookseller Panel Tackles Free Expression
As questions about freedom of speech continue to spark heated debate across the book business, the nation’s regional independent bookselling associations convened a panel on Tuesday to discuss how the issue impacts independent booksellers.
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Twin Cities Booksellers Bounce Back
The pandemic, coupled with the protests that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis last year, has transformed the Twin Cities bookselling scene in the last 20 months.
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Print Units Rose 11.7% in Mid-November
Gains in all categories led to an 11.7% increase in unit sales of print books in the week ended Nov. 13, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 22, 2021
Jocko Willink hits #10 on the hardcover fiction list this week with 'Final Spin,' Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich lands at #11 on our hardcover fiction list with her latest, 'The Sentence,' and Academy Award–nominated actor and Grammy-winning rapper Will Smith’s memoir is an instant success.
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GLIBA Holds Virtual Meeting; Members Look Forward to In-Person Gatherings
Much of the discussion during GLIBA's annual membership meeting, held virtually, centered upon upcoming in-person gatherings. GLIBA also reported a spike in new members, with 205 stores, the highest in many years.
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Print Sales Tumble in Early November
Unit sales of print books fell 17.1% in the week ended Nov. 12, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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