Race, Social Justice Titles Sparked Rise in Sales Last Week

'So You Want to Talk About Race' saw its sales jump by 848% last week over the previous week as a number of other social justice–related titles also saw big sales bumps, helping to drive up total unit sales of print books by 6.8% over the week ended May 30. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The week's bestselling books, June 30

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Green, Santella Up in PRH Children's Sales Reorg

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Gary Urda, SVP of Sales at Simon & Schuster, Dies at 59

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Amazon Prime Day 2024: The best deals to shop ahead of Prime Day and everything we know so far about the sale in July

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