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This Week's Bestsellers: March 9, 2020
This week, we’re looking at the top-selling e-books as ranked by Bookstat, and comparing those unit sales to print unit sales from BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 2, 2020
Lisa Kleypas has the #10 book in the country with ‘Chasing Cassandra.’ Plus Simone St. James checks into ‘The Sun Down Motel,’ and historian Alexis Coe reminds readers why ‘You Never Forget Your First.’
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 24, 2020
‘Hair Love,’ based on the Oscar-winning animated short, enjoyed a spike in sales after the awards show. Plus Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ debuts in hardcover fiction, and Harlan Coben’s ‘The Stranger’ becomes a Netflix series.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 17, 2020
Fashion mogul and onetime pop singer and reality TV star Jessica Simpson has the #1 book in the country with ‘Open Book.’ Plus Reese Witherspoon and Jenna Bush Hager’s new book club picks make their list debuts.
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Bookstores Team Up to Turn Arizona Blue
Bookshop Santa Cruz in California and Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona, have partnered in a drive to register Arizona voters and persuade them to vote Democrat in this year's presidential election.
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Bookstore Sales Fell 5.7% in 2019
Bookstore sales, which struggled for most of the year, ended 2019 with a weak December and finished the year with a 5.7% sales drop compared to 2018, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 10, 2020
‘New Kid,’ the first graphic novel to win a Newbery Medal, debuts on our children’s fiction list. Plus Costco Pennie’s Pick ‘The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek’ lands on our trade paper list nine months after publication, and books associated with the late Kobe Bryant draw renewed attention.
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Judging a Book by Its Title
A recent test found that titles can be more important than cover art in attracting prospective readers.
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PLA 2020: Indie Booksellers Keep Nashville Humming
After losing Davis-Kidd Booksellers, the Nashville bookstore scene is celebrating an indie resurgence.
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Waterstones Shows Profit, But B&N Is a ‘Big Mess’
In the year ended April 27, 2019, sales and profits rose at Waterstones, but over the Christmas holiday season, sales at Barnes & Noble "were awful," James Daunt, CEO of B&N and Waterstones, told the U.K. press.
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B&N, PRH Cancel Diverse Editions Promotion
Backlash against a Black History Month promotion from Barnes & Noble and Penguin Random House that saw racially and ethnically diverse covers put on classic books by mostly white authors led to its cancellation.
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 3, 2020
‘A Very Stable Genius,’ a critique of the Trump presidency, is the #1 book in the country. Plus Isabel Allende floats onto the hardcover fiction list with ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ and ‘El Traidor,’ a Spanish-language true crime title, debuts on our trade paper list.
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ABA Added 111 Stores in 2019
The American Booksellers Association added 111 new member bookstores last year. In addition, the ABA indicated that 25 stores were sold to new owners last year.
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Bookstores, Flatiron Cancel Cummins Appearances for 'American Dirt'
Citing customer concerns and demands on social media to cancel, Left Bank Books in St. Louis called off an offsite author event featuring Jeanine Cummins speaking about 'American Dirt' less than 24 hours before it was set to start on Sunday. Shortly after, Flatiron canceled events set for two California stores, and Vroman's has also canceled its events with Cummins.
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WI15: Treeline Readies Targeted E-Marketing Product for Indies
Above the Treeline is in beta for a two-pronged tool to increase revenue for indies. With Edelweiss360 booksellers will be able to do targeted e-marketing mailings a lot more quickly and to view their success. A second component will enable them to sell direct to customers where they are via a mobile-friendly branded website.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 27, 2020
Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink has the #1 book in the country with ‘Leadership Strategy and Tactics.’ Plus Bryan Stevenson’s ‘Just Mercy,’ recently adapted for film, jumps to #10 in the country, and the NYPL’s all-time most checked out title, ‘The Snowy Day’ by Ezra Jack Keats, has its best sales week in years.
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Finalists Named for 2020 PW Bookstore of the Year
This year's shortlist of five bookstores includes a number of stores with multiple locations and with years of bookselling experience, from both coasts and as far south as Texas.
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WI15: ABA Town Hall Focuses On Perennial Concerns
The Town Hall meeting at Winter Institute addressed several of the perennial big issues vexing booksellers: finding a solution for health insurance, the increasingly slim margins on books, and more.
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WI15: Cummins Speaks, Booksellers Divided on 'American Dirt'
Jeanine Cummins, the author of 'American Dirt,' a novel about the immigration experience that is both being celebrated and denigrated in media outlets and on social media, defended her novel to a packed room of booksellers at WI15.
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