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 at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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France's bricks-and-mortar booksellers have reported a year-on-year fall in sales of only 3.3% in 2020, despite a total of three months closure across two lockdowns, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 14:21:18 UTC ]
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Waterstones has seen "strong" online orders for A Promised Land (Viking), with the title also at number one in Amazon's bestseller charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 06:17:45 UTC ]
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Hachette Children's Books has said the publisher will be "pivoting" promotional plans for J K Rowling's The Ickabog to support closed bookshops. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 10:01:07 UTC ]
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New online retailer Bookshop.org secured sales of around £65,000 in its first day, making £16,000 for indies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 12:21:42 UTC ]
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Arsene Wenger's My Life in Red and White (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) has immediately lifted the trophy in the UK Official Top 50, scoring the number one spot with 35,297 copies sold in its launch week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 21:24:07 UTC ]
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Helped by the release of Bob Woodward’s Rage, unit sales of print books jumped 16.4% in the week ended Sept. 19, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In a week when print once again maintained sky-high sales, posting a 16% rise in value against the same week in 2019, and a 14.3% jump in volume, David Walliams and Tony Ross' The World's Worst Parents (HarperCollins) racked up a second week as the UK Official Top 50 number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 01:48:14 UTC ]
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April 2020 year‐to‐date revenue at Bloomsbury Publishing has fallen just 3%, the company has reported as part of its full-year results announcement, with print revenues at 87% of last year’s sales and academic digital revenues up by over 52% year on year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 21:51:31 UTC ]
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Blackwell's has reported "strong" Christmas sales with the chain's online business enjoying a "buoyant" trading period. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 17:46:29 UTC ]
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French independent bookshops increased their sales by 7.1% last year, despite a 1.3% drop in December because of continuing yellow vest social protests and the start of transport and other strikes against national pension reform on 5th December, according to the Booksellers Observatory. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-12 12:12:56 UTC ]
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Several UK publishers have their eyes on the UK rights to novelist Patricia Highsmith’s extensive diaries, which will for the first time tell of the author’s “heart-break, difficult choices, hard-won professional triumphs and a furiously fast-paced social life”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 19:04:45 UTC ]
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With a good summer and the beginnings of a strong fall, booksellers at this year's Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association annual trade show, were decidedly upbeat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales in the children/young adult category rose 16.6% in July over July 2018, while sales of adult books increased 3.9% in the month over 2018, according to the AAP’s StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus held a sales conference with a difference yesterday by sending out its teams to booksellers around the UK, Ireland, France and Belgium. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 08:22:12 UTC ]
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Stephen Clarke is stepping down as group chief executive at W H Smith with high street m.d. Carl Cowling to take on the role, as the group reports strong sales in its latest report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 07:15:56 UTC ]
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Credited by some to a growing post-Soviet interest in authoritative information, the Russian book business reportedly sees substantial gains for nonfiction. The post Nonfiction Sales Growth in the Russian Book Market Expected to Continue This Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops were just one sector of the French economy to suffer from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests across France on five consecutive Saturdays between 17th November and 15th December. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The Ice Monster (HarperCollins) has skated into a fourth week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 76,945 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Becoming' by Michelle Obama was easily the biggest hit at independent bookstores over the Thanksgiving weekend. Indies were also keeping a wary eye on inventory levels amid reports of potential shortages of hot-selling titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has recorded a decline in sales and earnings for the first six months of 2018, owing to exchange rate effects, according to Bertelsmann's first-half operating results. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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