This year's New England Independent Booksellers Association conference, held September 11–13, brought together booksellers, publishers, and authors and highlighted such industry trends as the rising price of books and strong sales of horror and fantasy titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Results were buoyed by strong sales in higher education course materials, which were up 17.9%, and at religious presses, which saw a 12.2% bump, in conjunction with a 1.5% increase in sales of adult books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the diminished presence of manga on the exhibition floor of the San Diego Comic-Con, manga and webtoon publishers continue to report a wave of strong sales and fan enthusiasm. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers discuss comics’ resurgence in 2021—and how strong sales were hindered by supply chain issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
The publisher saw strong sales across the board over the past two years, with net revenues up more than 25% from 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
In its first week on sale, Rooney’s new novel has outsold Jamie Oliver and beaten day-one sales of her previous book Normal People by 1,200% at WaterstonesSally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You has shot to the top of the UK’s book charts, selling more than 40,000 copies in just five... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-14 14:20:14 UTC ]
Strong sales of adult books and another big gain in its international operations led to a “robust, healthy” second quarter at Simon & Schuster, company CEO Jonathan Karp told 'PW.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
With the reopening of bookstores across the U.S. to in-store customers, Bookshop.org has seen sales slip in the April-June period compared to the second quarter of 2020, but sales for the entire first half of 2021 are still up 17%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Driven by strong sales in the U.S. in 2020, revenue at Penguin Random House increased 4.6% over 2019, while profits jumped 23%. The U.S. accounted for 58% of worldwide sales, up from 56% in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales hit an all-time high at BookScan in 2020, which the service said could be attributed to a combination of strong sales of both print books and e-books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Driven by strong sales from a host of new titles, unit sales of print books jumped 24.8% in the week ended Aug. 8, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Driven by strong sales from a host of new titles—including 'Midnight Sun' and 'Live Free or Die'—unit sales of print books rose 10.2% last week at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Strong sales in the adult nonfiction segment helped to drive up unit sales of print books by 10.9% last week at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books rose 1.1% in the week ended October 26 over the comparable week last year, helped by strong sales in adult nonfiction, where two big cookbooks debuted. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Strong sales of Christian books, backlist titles, and downloadable audiobooks led to a 29% increase in earnings at HarperCollins in the quarter ended March 31, 2019, over the comparable period last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Strong sales of digital audio were a key contributor to a 13% increase in profits at HarperCollins in the second quarter ended December 31, 2018. In discussing second quarter results, Robert Thomson, CEO of HC parent company News Corp, criticized Audible's domination of the downloadable audio... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Black & White Publishing enters its third decade on the back of a superb, near-record set of results, spurred by strong sales of rugby player Doddie Weir’s memoir. Its co-founders discuss the year ahead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Something of a debate is underway in the Russian market, where some see online retail as a key to future sales growth, while major chains are also showing good numbers in physical stores. Editor’s note: Following our pre-Frankfurt interview with Eksmo CEO Evgney Kapyev, reports from Moscow are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Strong sales in the adult nonfiction category led to a 2% increase in overall print unit sales in the week ended July 29, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]