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Adult Titles Drove a 24% Print Book Sales Gain Last Week
Unit sales of print books rose 24% last week over the comparable week in 2020. Sales of travel books continued to rebound after a disastrous 2020, and graphic novel sales soared again.
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Shermans, Maine's Oldest Bookstore, Adds 3 Locations
Sherman's Book Shops, Maine's oldest bookstore, is poised to open three new locations this summer.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 26, 2021
Sally Hepworth's 'The Good Sister,' a breakthrough title for the thriller author, debuts at #6 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Patrick Radden Keefe follows 'Say Nothing' with 'Empire of Pain,' #12 in hardcover nonfiction, and Pepper Teigen joins daughter Chrissy on the cookbook shelves.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Malvern Books
Malvern Books was founded in Austin, Tex., in 2013 by Joe Bratcher, the owner of Host Publications, which specializes in books by marginalized groups—women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ writers.
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Sales of Adult Titles Had Big Gains Last Week
Unit sales of print books jumped 35% last week over the comparable week in 2020, driven by huge sales gains for adult books. At this point last spring, sales of adult books were soft because of the pandemic.
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Independent Bookstore Day Adapts to Covid
Independent Bookstore Day, administered by the American Booksellers Association, takes place this coming Saturday, April 24; more than 740 stores are participating and booksellers are adjusting to the times, moving many events outdoors.
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Unit Sales of Print Books Rose 6% in Early April
Unit sales of print books rose 6% in the week ended Apr. 10, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 19, 2021
Manga makes its mark: 'My Hero Academia, Vol. 27' by Kohei Horikoshi is the #6 book in the country. Plus chef Erin French's memoir finds its way onto our hardcover nonfiction list, and we spy Flynn Berry in hardcover fiction.
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Print Unit Sales Rose 6% Last Week Led by Adult Titles
Unit sales of adult titles jumped for the week ended April 10, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, offsetting steep declines in the juvenile categories.
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February Bookstore Sales Dropped 22.3%
February bookstore sales fell to $446 million in February compared to sales of $573 million in 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Bookselling Profile: Midtown Reader
In October 2016, a new independent bookstore opened in Tallahassee, Fla., just weeks before an acrimonious election put Donald Trump in the White House. And national politics was the reason for the store's opening.
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The Surge of Print Books Sales Continues
Print unit sales jumped 29% in 2021’s first quarter. Most of the increase was due to the surge in book-buying that began last spring and carried over into 2021.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 12, 2021
Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman has the #1 book in the country with 'The Hill We Climb.' Plus financial educator Tiffany Aliche lands at #4 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'Get Good with Money,' and Gabriela Garcia debuts with the novel 'Of Women and Salt.'
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B&N CEO Says Things Are 'Much Better Now'
Addressing the IBPA 's annual conference, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said the company was acting on several promises, including making individual stores more autonomous, improving e-commerce, and diversifying management, all of which make it a viable competitor to Amazon.
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Gorman's Poem Sparks Big Weekly Sales Gains
'The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country' by Amanda Gorman sold nearly 215,000 copies in its first week on sale, helping to drive another good sales week for books.
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Tattered Cover to Open Children's Bookstore in Denver Suburb
This summer, Tattered Cover Bookstore will open a children's bookstore in Aurora, Colo., a Denver suburb; the new store will be Tattered Cover's fifth outlet and its first children's specialty bookstore.
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Powell's Books and Employee Union in Dispute Over Rehires
The management of Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., says it has hired back some 170 former employees, out of approximately 400 laid off, but argues that, with the passage of a year, it is no longer obligated to honor the seniority of former employees or to maintain a recall list of unionized employees. The union disagrees, and former employees feel aggrieved and betrayed.
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New Pilkey Title Leads a Good Week for Book Sales
An early 2021 Easter, combined with declining sales last spring as the pandemic heated up, resulted in a huge gain in unit sales of print books for the week ended March 28, 2021, over the comparable week last year at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New Grant Program Will Aid Indie Bookstores
A new industry initiative to help independent booksellers and comic shops recover from the Covid-19 pandemic is being launched today, with a $500,000 contribution from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group as well as significant gifts from Bookshop.org and four major publishers. The Survive to Thrive grant program hopes to raise a total of $2 million by the end of May to support indie bookstores.
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Print Unit Sales Have Big Mid-March Gain
Print unit sales rose 37.4% in the week ended Mar. 20, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, but year-to-year comparisons are starting to get more complex, as sales at this time last year were becoming more affected by the spreading pandemic.
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