After a sluggish first two months of 2015, bookstore sales rose a healthy 5.1% this past March over March 2014, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, bookstore sales fell 2.2% in February compared to February 2014, dropping to $716 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 4.5% in 2014, to $11.38 billion, down from $11.90 billion in 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
November bookstore sales fell 2.5%, to $736 million from $755 million in November 2013, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell slightly in October, dropping 0.5%, to $728 million, compared to October 2013, according to statistics released Thursday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 6.4% in September compared to September 2013, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 5.1% to $707 million in July, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were at $745 million in July 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite high rents and preliminary data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows a 7.9% drop in overall bookstore sales for the first half of 2014, PW’s informal poll of nearly two dozen indie bookstores found that many overcame a tough winter and are, in fact, up for the year. Some are way up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales for the first six months of 2014 were down 7.9% compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 6.8% in February, to $791 million, compared to February 2013, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 6.9% in January compared to a year ago, dropping to $1.75 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell to $13.19 billion in 2013, down 1.6% compared to 2012, according to preliminary estimates released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales in 2013 fell 1.6%, to $13.19 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
November bookstore sales fell 4.2% compared to November 2012, dropping to $818 million, according to preliminary results released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales slipped 1% in October, to $799 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau show that US bookstores as a whole experienced a 0.5 percent decrease in sales for the year of 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 0.8% in 2011, the slowest rate of decline since bookstore sales peaked at $17.18 billion in 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2007, bookstore sales declined a total of 9.6%. The modest drop in 2011 comes with one big caveat—December... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers and authors are better educated and earn more on average than the rest of the U.S. workforce, according to a study by the National Endowment for the Arts, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The study, Artists and Art Workers in the United... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]