Bookstores & Bookselling

Booksellers discuss how BookTok has changed the demographic visiting their stores, and how publishers can better pitch their titles for placement. (Also: print galleys still matter.)

At last week’s annual conference for booksellers, an industry analyst at Circana BookScan shared trends and insights from 2025 sales.

Curios hopes to offer a streamlined solution for the array of logistical challenges that come with selling audio direct.

The store, featuring work by ALLi members, is designed to help readers and influencers discover self-published authors across all genres.

Timing for an IPO would likely be summer 2026 or later, after parent company Elliott Investment’s fiscal year ends in April.

A children’s author noticed that in October her paperback sales dropped precipitously through IngramSpark without any clear reason.

TikTok Shop can lead to meaningful book sales for authors, but success demands fast fulfillment, engaging content, and often affiliate partnerships.

Last week’s article on direct sales elicited significant response from readers and service providers. Here’s what they had to say.

Authors who have strong brands and/or serve identifiable communities have plentiful tools to reduce reliance on Amazon and Ingram.

The bestselling author, who writes under the name Ruby Roe, has seen her career take off after getting on TikTok and investing in direct sales.

If publishers want to support independent bookstores through co-op specifically, they probably need to re-envision how these programs work.

While local booksellers have leeway to decide what’s on their shelves, it seems they must choose from titles already stocked in B&N’s DCs.

This event late last month caught my eye because it symbolizes a few ongoing and important business trends for authors.

Within hours of an essay by S&S’s Sean Manning, major media outlets started calling up industry insiders to get their reactions.

Currently ebooks purchased through Bookshop can be read in a browser or in the Bookshop app on your smartphone.

Earlier this year, Costco announced it would no longer carry books outside of the holiday season (the last three months of the year).

The retailer is removing low-quality books as well as some erotica it finds unacceptable.

Beventi was launched in 2023 to streamline pre-orders at events. Its growth is stunning.

Fans are willing to spend on special editions of their favorite authors and series.

What does it take to place a book on shelves nationwide? A panel at the US Book Show offered insights.

Self-publishing authors were shocked to find that B&N had removed some, and sometimes all, of their print editions for sale through BN.com.

The New York Times reports that Costco will stop stocking books regularly in January 2025, except for the holiday season.

Rose Metal is owed at least $40,000—about 60 to 70 percent of their annual book sales revenue—by SPD for sales in 2023 and 2024.

Bull City Press had close to 50 titles with SPD, with a couple thousand books warehoused that they need to get back.

Small presses must choose quickly from a number of distribution options; some urge forming distribution co-ops.