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Unit Sales Rise 4% in Late September
After four weeks of declining sales, units bounced back in the week ended Sept. 24, 2017, increasing 4% over the comparable week in 2016 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Holiday Gift Guide 2017: Bookseller Picks
Our favorite booksellers pick their favorite books.
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Bookstore News: September 29, 2017
New bookstore coming to Florida; Upstate New York stores launch seasonal promotion; a California indie fights for survival; bookselling in South Africa; and more.
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Monthly StatShot, May 2017
Sales of adult trade books rose 2.6% in May 2017 over May 2016, while sales in the children’s/YA segment increased 11.8%, according to AAP’s StatShot report.
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Bookstore News: September 27, 2017
A San Diego bookstore is bought and renamed; Book World expands to Missouri, Florida's Wild Iris Books to close, San Francisco store is under threat; and more.
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Amazon Books to Open in Washington, D.C., and Austin
The retailer has confirmed it will open new bookstores in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and in Austin, next year.
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Bookstore News: September 25, 2017
Cleveland bookstore to reopen; Omaha gets a new pop-up; inside Nashville's Parnassus Books; and more.
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Release of ‘What Happened’ Can’t Stop Sales Slide
Not even the release of Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, could end what is now a monthlong sales slide.
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Bargain Books in the Digital Age
The rebound in print sales has helped stabilize the remainder market.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 25, 2017
Books by Hillary Rodham Clinton and NBC’s Katy Tur offer from-the-trenches accounts of the 2016 presidential election. Elsewhere on our Hardcover Nonfiction list, new cookbooks and motivational titles proliferate.
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Bookstore News: September 22, 2017
New bookstores planned for Ohio and New York; a California couple launch a mobile bookstore; visiting three of Washington state's indies; a bookstore's Hillary Clinton video goes viral; and more.
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At Annual NEIBA Show, Booksellers Slam Amazon and Toast Each Other
At the just-wrapped annual gathering of the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA), there were big names and one big outburst, when the host of the New England Book Awards Banquet, Joe Donahue, kicked off the evening with a loud expletive about Amazon.
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New England Children's Booksellers Take Up Diversity, Inclusion at NEIBA Conference
Children’s booksellers and authors came together to discuss ways to increase diverse perspectives in children’s literature at the annual New England Independent Booksellers Association gathering in Providence, R.I., held September 18–20.
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Bookstore News: September 20, 2017
New bookstores to open in Rhode Island and Virginia; the Seattle Mystery Bookstore to close, a list of gay bookstores around the world; and more.
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Riggio Backs Parneros at B&N Annual Meeting
Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio gave new company CEO Demos Parneros his firm support, calling Parneros "the perfect fit" to help the company grow its top line and improve profits.
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McNally Jackson Offshoot to Open in Williamsburg
The Manhattan bookseller intends to open a second store, at 76 North 4th Street in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, by November.
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SIBA Discovery Show Thrives in the Big Easy
Booksellers from more than 71 stores attended the SIBA Discovery Show in New Orleans last weekend, where diversity and race were major topics—as was the impending move of the organization's executive director, Wanda Jewell, who is relocating to the West Coast.
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With No Harry Potter Bump, July 2017 Bookstore Sales Slipped 1.9%
While July sales last year were mightily padded by the release of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' which came out July 31, 2016, July 2017 saw no such blockbuster. Thanks in large part to this, July 2017 sales were down 1.9%, compared to the same time last year.
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Bookstore Sales Rose 4.9% in July
Bookstore sales this July were $660 million, up from $629 million a year ago, .
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