It’s February. I know. We’re barely a quarter of the way into 2019 and it already feels like we’ve lived through three years. Things feel slow. Book sales reflect the… Read more »

Ah, the topic of book sales — among authors, it can produce a hushed, nervous silence. Selling a lot of books implies success, far and above other metrics (like critical praise or cultish… Read more »

After a huge media blitz, a staggering first print run, and all the timeliness you could ask for, how’s the first week of sales looking for James Comey’s book A Higher… Read more »

As we reported earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly—serial sexual harasser and the guy who called Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas “the price of freedom”—isn’t selling quite as many books as he… Read more »

It seems J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series may well be the only thing keeping the publishing industry (or the film industry and theme park industry, or, you know what, just google “How… Read more »

At any other time in this country’s history, it might have been the biggest story of the year: the firing, and subsequent fall, of Fox News millionaire poster-boy, serial sexual… Read more »

Barnes & Noble may have seen a precipitous drop in sales over the holiday season, but at least one of their target numbers is up. On Tuesday, the country’s largest… Read more »

At last, some good news. Over at Publishers Weekly, Jonathan Segura has reported that print book sales, for the third year in a row now, were up in 2016 —… Read more »

Back in June, Liam O’Brien covered the strange legislative interlude in Israel after a law was passed setting strict controls on the discounting of new books, only to be repealed less… Read more »

While rising income inequality in western nations is becoming a major topic of discussion, there hasn’t been much talk about it in the publishing industry yet. Now, The Bookseller’s Sarah… Read more »