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Print Unit Sale Rose 8.7% At the End of November
Double-digit gains in the adult categories helped boost print unit sales 8.7% in the week ended Nov. 28, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Print Unit Sales Slipped 1.6% Last Week
Following blockbuster sales of 'A Promised Land" in the week ended November 21, print unit sales dipped 1.6% last week. Barack Obama's memoir once again was the top seller by a wide margin last week, but sales amounted to about half of those in its debut week.
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Booksellers See Subdued In-Store Holiday Sales, Online Eruption
Booksellers reported a significant drop in customer traffic and a commensurate drop in sales, but online orders were way up, forcing bookstores to adapt. Barack Obama's memoir and Jeff Kinney's latest were the most popular titles over the Thanksgiving weekend at stores surveyed by 'PW.'
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'A Promised Land' Drove Big Weekly Sales Gain
Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' sold nearly 835,000 copies at outlets that report to BookScan in its first week on sale, leading to a 14.5% sales increase for the week ended November 21.
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Print Unit Sales Jump in Mid-November
With all categories posting gains of at least 11%, unit sales of print books jumped 19.5% in the week ended Nov. 14, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: November 23, 2020
Fox Sports analyst Emmanuel Acho invites white readers to have ‘Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,’ #5 in hardcover nonfiction. Plus Anthony Horowitz returns with ‘Moonflower Murders,’ and ‘This Is Your Time’ by Ruby Bridges joins other activist-minded titles on our picture book list.
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Has the Holiday Shopping Surge Started? Book Sales Say Yes
Unit sales of print books increased 18.3% last week, an indication that the early shopping surge that retailers have been hoping for may be taking place.
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Rebuilding and Reinventing the Book Business Sustainably
A trio of booksellers from a variety of stores as well as a documentarian of reading trends discussed what ails the industry as well as what has to be done to make it more sustainable at a PubTech Connect session.
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Bookstore Sales Dropped 27.7% in September
Bookstore sales fell 27.7% in September, dropping to $609 million from $842 million a year ago. For the first nine months of 2020, sales were down 31% compared to 2019.
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Obama Memoir Selling Briskly at Indies
Independent booksellers reported solid first-day sales of former President Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land.' There was a downside, however, as many store owners reported some cartons of the memoir arrived damaged.
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