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This Week’s Bestsellers: February 3, 2025
As fans snap up copies of ‘Onyx Storm,’ the #1 (and #2) book in the country, author Rebecca Yarros is regrouping, swiftly. Plus Han Kang’s first novel since her Nobel Prize win, ‘We Do Not Part,’ debuts on our list, and Aurora Ascher has sympathy for the devil.
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High Five Books in Massachusetts Turns Five
On a frigid evening earlier this month, affection and appreciation warmed a children’s bookshop in the Western Massachusetts village of Florence, where 30 local children’s book creators came together to fete High Five Books' owner Lexi Walters Wright.
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First Week Sales of ‘Onyx Storm’ Top One Million
The third volume in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series sold nearly 1.1 million copies of the deluxe edition and another 178,000 copies of the standard hardcover.
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Indie Booksellers Launch Ambitious Global Bookstore Crawl
Independent bookstores in more than 30 cities across six continents will participate in the first synchronized Global Bookstore Crawl on April 26, coinciding with Independent Bookstore Day in the U.S.
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Bookshop.org Debuts Its E-book Platform
The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 27, 2025
Horror writer Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,' debuts at the top of our hardcover fiction list. Plus Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings land at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'You Deserve to Be Rich,' and in her own words, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.'
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Books Inc. Files for Voluntary Reorganization Under Chapter 11
The bookseller, which currently operates 11 outlets in the Bay Area, said that higher costs and declining sales due to changes in post-pandemic buying patterns have resulted in financial losses. Following the restructuring, Books Inc. expects to return to profitability.
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Profits Boom at a Resurgent Waterstones
Sales at the U.K. bookstore chain rose 17% in the year ended April 2024, and profits soared from £12.0 million, to £32.8 million. The return to offices by employees and increased tourism led to higher sales at stores in London and other cities.
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Five Years In at Barnes & Noble, James Daunt Says He’s Not Done Yet
The Waterstones CEO took over leadership of Barnes & Noble as well in September 2019, and after guiding the retailer through the pandemic is now overseeing a growth spurt. The CEO expects to open about 60 new outlets in 2025—a figure that would bring the total number of stores to about 700.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 20, 2025
'Beg, Borrow, or Steal,' Sarah Adams's third contemporary rom-com set in Rome, Ky., debuts at #3 on our trade paperback list, and January's Read with Jenna selection debuts at #12 on our hardcover fiction list.
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