A huge increase in sales through its physical stores offset a decline in online sales, leading to a 18.9% increase in total sales at Indigo Books & Music in the quarter ended July 2, 2022 compared with the same period of 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lower production and distribution costs were enough to give Simon & Schuster a 9% increase in earnings in the second quarter, despite an 8% drop in sales. Digital revenue jumped 44% in the quarter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Strong gains in the juvenile categories offset weakness in the adult categories in the week ended Apr. 11, 2020, resulting in a 2.9% increase in print unit sales over the comparable week in 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette parent company Lagardère has reported a 0.9% increase in total like-for-like publishing revenues for the first quarter, but revealed a 3.7% fall in the UK compared to last year's Fire and Fury-fuelled success. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the stock prices of nine of the 11 companies on the Publishers Weekly Stock Index rising in February, the PWSI managed to eke out a 0.9% increase. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has run away with the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 89,852 copies for £347,113, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. This is a 51.9% increase in volume on its first week at the top. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by a 44.9% increase in the stock price of Amazon, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index jumped 23.5% in 2012, easily beating the 7.3% gain posted by the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]