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A Surprisingly Strong Year of Book Sales Continues
In spite of historic challenges, unit sales of print books were up 6.4% in the first nine months of 2020.
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Mountains & Plains Booksellers Conference Kicks Off with Children's Authors
The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's virtual trade show, FallCon, showcased a group of children's and YA authors demonstrating the magic that storytelling holds.
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Weekly Unit Sales Slip Again
Despite seven new titles appearing among the top 10 bestsellers last week, unit sales of print books fell 1.2% compared to the week ended September 26. The decline followed a 5.5% unit sales decline in the last full week of September.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 5, 2020
‘Hyperbole and a Half’ cartoonist Allie Brosh has the #3 book in the country with ‘Solutions and Other Problems.’ Plus ‘My Own Words,’ a 2016 collection of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s writings, is the #7 book in the county, and a trio of new recipe collections speak to time-strapped home cooks.
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Print Units Post Double-Digit Gains at the End of September
With the juvenile and YA nonfiction categories both posting better than 32% gains, unit sales of print books rose 10.3% in the week ended Sept. 26, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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A Bookstore as Tough as New York City Itself
Book Club, an indie on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was only open for a few months before the pandemic hit. Since then, its owners have gotten creative, and are raising the store’s profile. Here's how.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 5.5% Last Week
With no new big book hitting shelves last week, unit sales of print books fell 5.5% compared to the week ended September 19 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, but were up 10.3% over the week ended September 28, 2019.
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Despite Difficult Year, PNBA in Good Financial Shape
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association gathered on Zoom for its annual membership meeting this week. Despite a difficult year, attendance was good and leadership said the organization is in strong financial shape.
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With Challenges Ahead, New England Booksellers Stress Resilience
In an annual meeting and town hall last week, NEIBA members took up a message of resilience and looked ahead to 2021 with good spirits in spite of many challenges.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 28, 2020
Bob Woodward has the #1 book in the country, and the third-biggest debut of the year, with ‘Rage.’ Plus 16 years after ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell,’ Susanna Clarke avoids the sophomore slump with ‘Piranesi,’ and ‘Three Keys’ by Kelly Yang is among the titles new to our children’s fiction list.
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Print Unit Sales Continue to Roll in Mid-September
Helped by the release of Bob Woodward’s Rage, unit sales of print books jumped 16.4% in the week ended Sept. 19, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookstores Need More than Hope. They Need Sales. And Soon.
Despite expanding their services during the most challenging time for retailers in recent memory, booksellers enter the holiday season worried about forces beyond their control.
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SIBA Membership Nearly Quadrupled in 2020
The annual meeting of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, which took place at the New Voices New Rooms conference on Thursday, revealed that its membership jumped from 160 stores in 2019 to 589 stores this year, after it waived membership dues.
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NAIBA Membership Pulls Together During a Difficult Year
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association board met virtually with its membership on Thursday morning to review a year that was marked by both unprecedented challenges and bold new initiatives.
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Release of 'Rage' Led to Small Unit Sales Increase Last Week
Helped by the release of Bob Woodward's 'Rage,' unit sales of print books rose 2.3% last week at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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New England Booksellers Announce Major Diversity Reading Initiative
Word of the new NEIBA Reading Challenge, aimed at radically reshaping the reading habits of booksellers in the region, came just hours before the announcement that only one charge would be brought against a police officer in the killing of Breonna Taylor—news that reverberated during the bookselling organization’s evening awards banquet.
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Suburban Toronto Indigo Store Unionizes
Workers at the Indigo Books & Music location in Mississauga, Ontario, in suburban Toronto, have voted to join UFCW Local 1006A, prompted in part by orders to clean customer bathrooms.
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How Bookstores Can Keep Bestsellers In Stock
The Heartland Summer virtual trade show's final education session for GLIBA and MIBA booksellers featured a panel of publishers explaining the 'witchy science' of determining print runs to keep books moving from printers to bookstores during a tough time for American printers.
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Booksellers Talk Lost Books, Sex, and Good Business at NAIBA/SIBA Conference
In packed workshop sessions and thematic buzz panels, booksellers and editors were able to rekindle much of the educational reason for attending—and some of the interpersonal reasons as well.
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Combined Regional Bookseller Conference Draws a (Digital) Crowd
In a partnership that may turn out to be a rare, notable success during the pandemic, the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance saw their five-day combined conference kick off on Monday with high attendance.
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