About Bookselling

The winners of the 2017 National Book Awards for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, and poetry were announced on November 15 at a ceremony in New York.

Retail sales at U.S. bookstores were down by 6.6 percent in September 2017 compared to September 2016, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census. Sales for independent bookstores, as reported to the weekly Indie Bestseller Lists, were up slightly more than two percent year to date.

Sally Dedecker, a longtime figure in the book industry, died on Monday, November 6. She was 62.

Here is BTW’s annual holiday preparations checklist, offering reminders to help smooth day-to-day operations at your store during the upcoming season.

When it comes to expanding their brand, some independent bookstores are looking to a rapidly growing media trend: podcasts.

Coming the day after Indies First on Small Business Saturday, Museum Store Sunday is a new event to encourage shoppers to think local for their holiday gifts.

The American Library Association has announced the six books chosen to appear on the shortlist for the association’s 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

ABA is asking all bookstore members to keep the association updated on personnel changes, including ownership, buyers, and other staff, so that e-mails are sent to the correct person at each store.

As independent bookstores prepare for the spookiest season of the year, the National Retail Federation is predicting that Halloween spending will reach a record $9.1 billion in 2017.

Retail sales at U.S. bookstores were down by 10.9 percent in August 2017 compared to August 2016, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.

This week, bookstores around the country ushered in the release of Turtles All the Way Down, the first book in five years from YA author John Green.