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This Week's Bestsellers: November 19, 2018
The #1 book in the country is 'Whose Boat Is This Boat?,' a parody picture book by the staff of 'The Late Show' with Stephen Colbert.
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Unit Sales Dropped 5.3% in Early November
Unit sales of print books fell 5.3% in the week ended Nov. 10, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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September Bookstore Sales Fell 0.9%
Bookstore sales fell 0.9% in September compared, compared to the same period a year ago, according to a preliminary estimate released by the U.S. Census Bureau. For the first nine months of the year, sales were down 0.6%.
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Michelle Obama Kicks Off Book Tour in Chicago
While indies throughout the country reported varying sales figures for Michelle Obama's highly-anticipated memoir, Chicago indies reported stratospheric first-day sales as Obama launched her national book tour there with Oprah Winfrey.
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Amazon Picks NYC, Arlington, Va., as New HQ Sites
Amazon said it will begin hiring for its new headquarters in New York City and Arlington, Va., in 2019. The company is also opening a operations center in Nashville.
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Attorneys for Parneros, Barnes & Noble Meet in Court
At a 20-minute initial conference, lawyers for Demos Parneros portrayed the fired CEO as a respected executive who is now "unhirable" after being wrongly dismissed for alleged sexual harassment. Lawyers for Barnes & Noble said they have "a different view of the facts."
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 12, 2018
Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney has the #1 book in the country – again – with ‘The Meltdown.’ Plus musicians tell their stories in two new titles, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle gets an illustrated omnibus.
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Unit Sales Up in Early November, Led by Juvenile Fiction
Unit sales of print books rose 1.3% in the week ended Nov. 3, 2018, over the comparable week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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B&N's Potential Mystery Buyer Revealed to Be W.H. Smith
'The Wall Street Journal' reported that the company rumored to be near an acquisition of Barnes & Noble this spring was British retailer W.H. Smith.
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Bowker Investigating Breach of ISBN Site
In a notice posted on its website late last week, R.R. Bowker said it has learned that unauthorized charges were occurring on cards after they were legitimately used on its www.myidentifiers.com website, which is responsible for issuing ISBNs.
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Soft Adult Sales Lead to 2% Unit Decline in Late October
With sales down in both adult categories, unit sales of print books in the week ended Oct. 27, 2018, fell 2.2% compared to the same week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 5, 2018
John Grisham has the #1 book in the country with ‘The Reckoning.’ Plus Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series has a fiery finish, and ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ spins to the big screen.
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Booksource Sales Top $100 Million
After 45 years in retail, Booksource has no regrets about shifting its wholesale business to schools and libraries.
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The Evolution of Online Book Arbitrage
With new technology, reselling books on Amazon has become profitable for those willing to trawl thrift stores, library sales, and used bookstores.
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In Counterclaim, B&N Says Former CEO 'Sabotaged' Sale; Sexually Harassed Multiple Women
Barnes & Noble is now seeking damages from recently fired CEO Demos Parneros for breaching his fiduciary duties, including derailing the sale of the company so he could retain his job as B&N's CEO.
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Print Units Had Small Gain In Mid-October
Unit sales of print books inched ahead 0.5% in the week ended Oct. 20, 2018, over the comparable week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 29, 2018
Cooking titles by Yotam Ottolenghi and René Redzepi debut on our hardcover nonfiction list. Plus Lin-Manuel Miranda puts his popular tweets on paper, and Kristina McMorris’s ‘Sold on a Monday’ has its best sales to date two months after release.
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Children's Booksellers Expand Horizons at SCIBA 2018
At this year's Southern California Independent Booksellers Association fall trade show, held on the weekend of October 20–21, children's programs and conversations focused on ways to expand bookselling beyond the four walls of a bookstore.
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Robots and Revenue Streams at SCIBA 2018
The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show opened in a brand new venue featuring such futuristic flourishes as self-driving luggage carts and automated concierges.
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Making Progress on Bookstore Margins
In a letter to our editor, Robert Sindelar, the president of the American Booksellers Association, acknowledges that bookseller Jonathan Platt has a valid point that store margins could be better, but argues that improvements are being made.
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