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This Week's Bestsellers: August 9, 2021
Colleen Hoover’s 'It Ends with Us,' a 2016 publication and certified #BookTok hit, is the #4 book in the country. Plus 'Great British Baking Show' winner Nadiya Hussain serves up her latest, 'Nadiya Bakes,' and Shari Lapena drops another domestic thriller.
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Print Sales End July on a Down Note
Unit sales of print books dipped 1.7% in the week ended July 31, 2021, compared to the week ended Aug. 1, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Sales Fell 1.7% Last Week
Unit sales fell in all nonfiction categories last week, offsetting another week of increases in adult fiction and resulting in a 1.7% decline from the week ended August 1, 2020.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 4.9% in Late July
With sales in nonfiction categories all falling again, unit sales of print books declined 4.9% overall in the week ended July 24, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 02, 2021
Debuting at #2 in hardcover nonfiction and #2 overall is I Alone Can Fix it by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
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Declines in Nonfiction Dropped Print Book Sales Last Week
With sales in nonfiction categories all falling again, unit sales of print books declined 4.9% last week compared to the week ended July 25, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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CALIBA Names New Co-executive Directors
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance announced that Ann Seaton, CALIBA’s former director of operations, and Kristin Rasmussen, general manager of {pages} a bookstore in Manhattan Beach, have been appointed co-executive directors of the association.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 26, 2021
Fox News host Mark R. Levin has the #1 book in the country with 'American Marxism,' artist Amber Share debuts at #8 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'Subpar Parks,' and more.
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Bookselling Profile: Reads & Company
Jason Hafer was forced to close the bookstore he opened in Phoenixville, Pa., in 2011. In May 2019, Hafer and Robb Cadigan opened Reads & Company in the same location.
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Print Unit Sales Fell in Mid-July
Unit sales of print books fell 3.9% in the week ended July 17, 2021, compared to the similar week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Book Unit Sales Fall Again
For the second week in a row, unit sales of print books were down compared to 2020. Units dropped 3.9% last week compared to the week ended July 18, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Unit Sales Fell in Early July
Unit sales of print books fell 1.3% in the week ended July 10, 2021, compared to the similar week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 19, 2021
'The Paper Palace,' Miranda Cowley Heller's debut, is the July Reese's Book Club pick and the #5 book in the country. Plus two new novels, 'Falling' and 'Fallen,' have similar titles and starred reviews, but the likeness ends there.
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May Bookstore Sales Jumped 130%
Rebounding from the lows of spring 2020, bookstore sales in May soared 130% over last May, hitting $632 million.
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Print Book Sales Fell Last Week, Ending Long Winning Streak
The long run of unit sales of print books posting weekly sales gains over the comparable week in 2020 came to an end last week, with units falling 1.3% compared to the week ending July 11, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Booksellers Denounce ABA Promotion of Anti-Trans Book
The American Booksellers Association is facing withering criticism from booksellers after walking back its promotion of Abigail Shrier's anti-trans title 'Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters' to member bookstores.
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Bookselling Profile: Baker Book House
By quickly embracing social media platforms, Baker Book House, which claims to be the oldest and largest indie Christian bookstore in North America, has successfully raised its visibility far beyond its community in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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The Bestselling Books of 2021 (So Far)
The first six months of the year may have seen sales of adult fiction buoy print sales week after week, but the year's only runaway bestseller to date is a children's book.
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Print Book Sales Soar in Year's First Half
Strong fiction sales drove an 18.5% increase in print unit sales during the first six months of 2021.
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This Week's Bestsellers: July 12, 2021
A pair of BookTok favorites, 'They Both Die at the End' and 'The Song of Achilles,' are among the 10 bestselling books of the week. Plus Riley Sager's 'Survive the Night' lives to have a strong opening week, and two authors tell one historical woman's story in the novel 'The Personal Librarian.'
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