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WI2025: The ABA Puts On Its Game Face

By Claire Kirch and Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/26/2025 @ 08:00AM

Amid rising book bans and attacks on DEI initiatives from the White House, the American Booksellers Association and its members struck a note of defiance at their annual gathering in Denver.
This Week’s Bestsellers: February 24, 2025

Edited by Carolyn Juris | 02/21/2025 @ 07:00PM

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales continues Heather Fawcett’s fae-bulous fantasy series set in an alternate early 20th century while Scythe & Sparrow, which rounds out Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy, swoops to the top of our trade paperback list.
World of Books Plans Aggressive U.S. Expansion

By Ed Nawotka | 02/21/2025 @ 09:30AM

World of Books, a major U.K.–based e-tailer of new and used books with $200 million in annual sales worldwide, has consolidated its U.S. businesses and relaunched its website in the hopes of growing the U.S. into its largest territory within three years.
Two U.K. Presses Spearhead Day of Support for East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop

By Claire Kirch | 02/18/2025 @ 09:00AM

With two booksellers remaining under house arrest in Jerusalem, a coalition of publishers, booksellers, authors, industry professionals, and activists are marking #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day, on February 22, to raise awareness of their plight.
This Week’s Bestsellers: February 17, 2025

Edited by Carolyn Juris | 02/14/2025 @ 12:00AM

Ali Hazelwood tops our trade paperback list with ‘Deep End,’ a kinky, character-driven new adult romance. Plus TJ Klune reintroduces fans to ‘The Bones Beneath My Skin,’ and Rick Steves and the Points Guy hit the road (but not together).
Books Inc. Begins Fundraising Drive for Its Reading Bridge Nonprofit

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/13/2025 @ 09:00AM

Bay Area indie company Books Inc., which filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, launched a one-month, $100,000 fundraising campaign to support its nonprofit wing, Reading Bridge.
Book Club Picks for February 2025

By PW Staff | 02/12/2025 @ 09:00AM

Oprah’s Book Club selects an introspective drama set in near-future Montana, Reese's Book Club picks Allegra Goodman's latest novel, and more.
Global Book Business Condemns Arrest of Jerusalem Booksellers

By Claire Kirch | 02/11/2025 @ 11:00AM

Industry organizations and publishers are condemning the detention of two Palestinian booksellers by Israeli police, who raided the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem on February 9, seizing books that they alleged incited terrorism. The booksellers were confined to house arrest this morning.
They Don’t Call Them the Big Five for Nothing

By Jim Milliot | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The Big Five publishers held their usual tight grip on hardcover bestsellers in 2024, with one publisher taking a notable leap forward.
This Week’s Bestsellers: February 10, 2025

By Carolyn Juris | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller, The Crash, tops our trade paperback list. Plus Neko Case plays confessor, brings the flood of emotions in her new memoir, and MSNBC host Chris Hayes sounds the alarm against The Sirens’ Call.
Can a Nonprofit Model Work for Bookstores?

By John Maher | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

Community outreach is a cornerstone of independent bookselling, but it doesn’t come cheap. Emerson Collective is helping bookstores find better ways to fund it.
Falling in Love in Indie Bookstores

By Ed Nawotka | 02/07/2025 @ 09:00AM

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Brandeis University Press will publish 'Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes' by former PW bookselling editor Judith Rosen, which profiles 24 couples who proposed, or held their weddings, at independent bookstores.
This Week’s Bestsellers: February 3, 2025

By Carolyn Juris | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

As fans snap up copies of ‘Onyx Storm,’ the #1 (and #2) book in the country, author Rebecca Yarros is regrouping, swiftly. Plus Han Kang’s first novel since her Nobel Prize win, ‘We Do Not Part,’ debuts on our list, and Aurora Ascher has sympathy for the devil.
High Five Books in Massachusetts Turns Five

By Sally Lodge | 01/30/2025 @ 03:00PM

On a frigid evening earlier this month, affection and appreciation warmed a children’s bookshop in the Western Massachusetts village of Florence, where 30 local children’s book creators came together to fete High Five Books' owner Lexi Walters Wright.
First Week Sales of ‘Onyx Storm’ Top One Million

By Jim Milliot | 01/30/2025 @ 09:00AM

The third volume in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series sold nearly 1.1 million copies of the deluxe edition and another 178,000 copies of the standard hardcover.
Indie Booksellers Launch Ambitious Global Bookstore Crawl

By Ed Nawotka | 01/30/2025 @ 09:00AM

Independent bookstores in more than 30 cities across six continents will participate in the first synchronized Global Bookstore Crawl on April 26, coinciding with Independent Bookstore Day in the U.S.
Bookshop.org Debuts Its E-book Platform

By Ed Nawotka | 01/28/2025 @ 09:00AM

The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers.
This Week's Bestsellers: January 27, 2025

Edited by Carolyn Juris | 01/24/2025 @ 07:00PM

Horror writer Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,' debuts at the top of our hardcover fiction list. Plus Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings land at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'You Deserve to Be Rich,' and in her own words, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.'
Books Inc. Files for Voluntary Reorganization Under Chapter 11

By Jim Milliot and Nathalie op de Beeck | 01/22/2025 @ 10:15AM

The bookseller, which currently operates 11 outlets in the Bay Area, said that higher costs and declining sales due to changes in post-pandemic buying patterns have resulted in financial losses. Following the restructuring, Books Inc. expects to return to profitability.
Profits Boom at a Resurgent Waterstones

By Neill Denny | 01/22/2025 @ 09:00AM

Sales at the U.K. bookstore chain rose 17% in the year ended April 2024, and profits soared from £12.0 million, to £32.8 million. The return to offices by employees and increased tourism led to higher sales at stores in London and other cities.

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