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Follett Will Open Five Book Fair Fulfillment Centers
Follett Corp., which entered the school book fair business in fall 2017, will open five new fulfillment centers by August 1.
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Porter Square Books to Open in New Boston Literary Center
Porter Square Books will open a second location in Boston’s Seaport District, taking a ground floor space in a new literary center that will house the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet and the poetry non-profit Mass Poetry.
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Indies Want Support for New Stores
Opening order specials for new bookstores were nonexistent at major publishers as recently as fall 2015. The ABA is working to change all that.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 8, 2019
Bobby Hall, aka hip-hop artist Logic, has the #1 book in the country with ‘Supermarket,’ his debut novel. Plus new installments of the Expanse and Miasie Dobbs series land their authors on our hardcover fiction list.
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An Array of Business Updates at NEIBA Conference
Amid a daylong series of author readings, educational sessions, and a town hall, NEIBA attendees heard updates on the latest bookstore financials, the progress on ABA's pre-order campaign, and how the installation of Batch is proceeding.
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Last Year's Books Top This Year's First Quarter Sales
Michelle's Obama's 'Becoming,' released in early November, was the biggest title, selling 629,000 copies through outlets that report to BookScan in the period ended March 30. Only three books released in 2019 made the top 20 list in the quarter.
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January Bookstore Sales Had Big Decline
Faced with what should have been easy comparisons to January 2018 when bookstore sales fell 9.6% compared to 2017, bookstore sales nonetheless fell 10.6% this past January compared to a year ago.
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Booksellers Announce First Annual Bookstore Romance Day
As independent bookstores continue to deepen their ties with romance readers, a group of enthusiast booksellers has announced the first Bookstore Romance Day to be held on August 17, 2019.
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Late Easter Leads to Unit Drop at End of March
Unit sales of print books dropped 7.1% in the week ended Mar. 23, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: April 1, 2019
‘Doing Justice’ by Preet Bharara and Evan Thomas’s Sandra Day O’Connor bio, ‘First,’ nab courtside seats on our hardcover nonfiction list. Elsewhere in nonfiction, food magazines serve up a pair of new cookbooks, and the second collection from the Moth storytelling project alights.
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Good Old-Fashioned Bookselling: An Exit Interview with Betty Takeuchi
Throughout her 45-year career, pioneering bookseller Betty Takeuchi ran San Marino Toy and Book Shoppe in San Marino, Calif., and also helped found the Association of Booksellers for Children in 1985.
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Literati Named 2019 PW Bookstore of the Year; Heidemann Rep
The six-year-old Ann Arbor bookstore has grown from 2,600 sq. ft. and seven employees when it opened to nearly 4,000 sq. ft. and 27 employees today. Long-time PGW Northwest sales rep Cindy Heidemann is known as "a master at helping buyers focus on what is important for their stores."
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 25, 2019
The latest 'Pet Sematary' resurrection claws its way to the big screen. Plus primatologist Frans de Waal embraces an empathetic subject in ‘Mama’s Last Hug,’ and the conspiracy theory title ‘QAnon’ wakes up to a spot on our list.
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Unit Sales Fell 6.0% in Mid-March
With sales down in all categories, unit sales of print books at outlets that report to NPD BookScan fell 6.0% overall in the week ended Mar. 16, 2019, compared to the similar week a year ago.
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Binc: A Safety Net for Booksellers
The foundation has provided $6.6 million in assistance to booksellers since 1996—and just keeps on growing.
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Atria Pushes Summer Read with Exclusive Indies Promotion
Simon & Schuster imprint Atria is supporting indie bookstores' efforts to pump up pre-orders by offering indies promotional materials, including a custom-made enamel pin to give to customers who pre-order one of its lead summer releases.
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Teicher to Retire from ABA at Year's End
Oren Teicher, who has led the American Booksellers Association since 2009, has announced that he will retire as CEO of the organization at the end of 2019.
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This Week's Bestsellers: March 18, 2019
Rachel Hollis has the #1 book in the country with ‘Girl, Stop Apologizing,’ her follow-up to her 2018 blockbuster, ‘Girl, Wash Your Face.’ Plus ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the latest Reese’s Book Club pick, and Jenna Hager Bush launches a book club of her own with Tara Conklin’s ‘The Last Romantics.’
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Unit Sales Flat in Early March
Unit sales of print books were flat in the week ended Mar. 9, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Bookstore Sales Rose 1.7% in 2018
Bookstore sales in 2018 rose to $10.28 billion, up from $10.11 billion in 2017, according to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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