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Baby Got Backlist: Backlist Backbones 2021
Children’s booksellers say they tend to reach for beloved older titles to start kids on the path to becoming lifelong readers.
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Print Book Sales Rose Nearly 11% Last Week
Unit sales of print books cooled somewhat last week, but still managed to increase 10.9% over the week ended February 22, 2020.
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Congressman and Others Vow to Fight Amazon, Monopolies
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance hosted a seminar on the topic of "Reining in Monopoly Power," where Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) and others vowed to level the playing field for small businesses competing against Amazon and other dominant tech companies.
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WI16: Booksellers Told to Prepare for Constant Disruption
Author Brené Brown offered the keynote talk on the final day of the ABA's Winter Institute and urged booksellers to improve their communication skills and not to anticipate a return to normalcy, but to prepare for a future of constant disruption.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 22, 2021
“Life, Interrupted” columnist Suleika Jaouad debuts at #15 on our hardcover fiction list with ‘Between Two Kingdoms.’ Plus a revamped edition of Sonya Renee Taylor’s ‘The Body Is Not an Apology’ lands at #7 on our trade paperback list, and Adam Grant’s latest, ‘Think Again,’ is the #8 book in the country.
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Print Unit Sales Up 21.3% in Mid-February
For the week ended Feb. 13, 2021, unit sales of print books increased 21.3% over the week ended Feb. 15, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookselling Spotlight: Talk Story Bookstore
Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe, Hawaii, is the talk of the town for a reason.
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WI16: Booksellers Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best
The second day of this year’s virtual Winter Institute was true to the conference’s founding spirit with a streamlined series of sessions aimed to address indie booksellers' core business needs, particularly finances.
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WI16: Indies Look Back While Charting the Future
Winter Institute 16 kicked off yesterday as a virtual gathering of booksellers. Inspired by such high wattage speakers as Barack Obama and Amanda Gorman, booksellers celebrated their past while charting their future.
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Print Units Have Another Big Sales Week
For the week ended February 13, 2021, unit sales of print books increased 21.3% over the week ended February 15, 2020, at outlets that report to BookScan. It was the second consecutive week that unit sales rose by more than 20% over the comparable week last year.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 28.3% in 2020
Bookstore sales fell 15.2% in December, the smallest monthly decline since February, but sales fell 28.3% for the year, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 15, 2021
Kristin Hannah has the #1 book in the country with ‘The Four Winds.’ Plus February book club picks include a pair of bestsellers, and manga makes its presence known on our lists.
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Literati Gets Big Money for Book Boxes
The Austin, Tex.–based book box subscription service has pulled in more than $50 million recently. Here's what's happening.
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New Releases Spark Another Big Book Sales Week
Unit sales of print books jumped 25.7% last week over the first week in February 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Kristin Hannah's 'The Four Winds' was the #1 title in the week, selling more than 115,000 copies.
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Villarosa Joins Tattered Cover to Curate BIPOC Books
Clara Villarosa, the founder of the Hue-Man Experience in Denver, who also at one time was a partner in the Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe in New York City, will curate BIPOC books for the Tattered Cover Bookstore.
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Store Closures Challenged Indigo in Q3
Canada' Indigo Books and Music saw a 5% drop in revenue, to C$365.4 million, for the quarter ended December 26, compared with the same period last year.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 8, 2021
‘Just as I Am,’ which published two days before author Cicely Tyson died at age 96, is the #1 book in the country. Plus Caldecott Medal winner ‘We Are Water Protectors’ debuts on our picture book list, and Brigid Kemmerer concludes her Cursebreaker YA trilogy with ‘A Vow So Bold and Deadly.’
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Print Sales Rose 19.5% at the End of January
With all major categories posting double-digit gains, unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended Jan. 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Indie Bookstores Embrace E-Commerce... and It Pays Off
After a year spent pivoting out of necessity, booksellers now see online sales as a permanent part of their business model.
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