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What It's Like to Be a Frontline Bookseller During a Pandemic
Frontline booksellers are the first people customers see when they set foot in bookstores across America, and are among the most vulnerable workers in the publishing industry. This is what their world looks like now.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 5.5% Last Week
The 5.5% decline in print unit sales last week compared to the previous week was mainly due to a 25.5% sales drop in the young adult category, in which 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' sold more than 270,000 copies in the week ended May 23.
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The Uncles Bookstores in Minneapolis Conduct Fundraising Campaign
After confusion regarding the legitimacy of a GoFundMe campaign to benefit two Minneapolis bookstores that burned down Friday night, the store's owner has taken it over and is urging supporters to donate.
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Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Now
Activists across the United States are encouraging book lovers who want to show support for the ongoing protests against police violence to buy books from black-owned and African-American focused bookstores.
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S&S Offers New Program for Indie Booksellers
Beginning today, the S&S programs will include dating on open invoices, extra discount and dating for a reopening order between now and the end of August, and enhanced terms for orders during the fall bookselling season.
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Bookstores Show Support for Protests
Bookstores across the country are expressing support for the protests against police violence by offering material support, promoting antiracism books, and encouraging people to shop at black-owned businesses.
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Minneapolis Bookstores Deal With Fire, Vandalism During Chaotic Weekend
Twin Cities bookstores tried to weather the civil unrest that continued throughout the weekend. While Moon Palace Books remained mostly unscathed during days of rioting, Uncle Edgar's and Uncle Hugo's burned down.
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This Week's Bestsellers: June 1, 2020
The #1 book in the country is ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games prequel. Plus Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines the life of ‘Rodham,’ and Bill Gates sends Disney exec Robert Iger on a wild ride.
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Print Units Jumped 11% in Mid-May
The release of Suzanne Collins’s prequel to her Hunger Games series in the week ended May 23, 2020, drove up unit sales of print books by 11.1% over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Riots Continue to Affect Twin Cities Shops and Bookstores
A second night of rioting in Minneapolis/St. Paul continues to affect booksellers located in the areas that have become scenes of violence.
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2020 Pannell Award Winners Announced
The awards, presented by the Women’s National Book Association, have been given to BookPeople in Austin, Tex., and Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Ga.
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Minneapolis Indie Bookstores Weather Riots
Two Minneapolis indie bookstores on the city blocks most torn apart by the protests on Wednesday evening that continued into the early morning hours on Thursday have so far escaped unscathed.
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Two Indie Booksellers Associations Join Forces for Fall Conference
In lieu of in-person gatherings, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association will host a combined virtual conference from September 21-25.
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WORD Bookstore and Authors Team Up for Charity
All this week WORD Bookstores in Brooklyn and New Jersey will donate 10% of the purchase prices of books by a rotating group of authors to a different charity each day.
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Denver's BookBar Switches Up Business Model
Denver's BookBar bookstore is marking its seventh anniversary by changing its business model to provide services beyond retail, such as a literary imprint, BookBar Press, and a writers-in-residence program.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 25, 2020
‘The Henna Artist,’ Alka Joshi’s debut novel and the Reese’s Book Club pick for May, debuts at #16 in hardcover fiction. Plus a pair of backlist titles offering advice on coping with adversity have seen renewed interest since Covid-19 took hold in the U.S., and Scott Turow returns for ‘The Last Trial.’
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Print Units Up 7.7% in Mid-May
Unit sales of print books rose 7.7% in the week ended May 16, 2020, over the comparable period in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Commission Reps See Challenges Ahead—As Well As Opportunities
As stores slowly reopen, commission reps see a host of issues they will need to navigate to have a successful second half of 2020.
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As Canadian Bookstores Reopen, Challenges Await
Indigo has reopened less than 10% of its bookstores across Canada and will close 15 outlets permanently this summer. In Winnipeg, McNally Robinson says customers are returning, but sales are still down 60% from last year.
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Print Unit Sales Fell 7.8% Last Week
After two weeks of consecutive double-digit growth, unit sales of print books fell last week compared to the week ended May 9, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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