Print Unit Sales Soared Last Week By Jim Milliot | Dec 10, 2020
Holiday book buying kicked into high gear last week, with unit sales of print books jumping 44.3% over the week ended November 29, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The smallest gain in the week came in young adult fiction, where sales increased 31.2%, whereas the biggest jump was in young adult nonfiction, which had an 86.8% increase.
In general, the sales boost came from higher sales of existing titles. For example,
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, last year s Barnes & Noble book of the year, saw sales skyrocket to about 138,000 copies last week from just over 14,000 copies in the previous week. Holiday favorite
Modern Comfort Food, Garten has gifted her followers with tons of hearty meals that result in wide smiles across dinner tables worldwide. We think that the best dinners are the ones that can be shared with people you care about (virtually or in-person). We understand this year’s holiday celebrations pose certain ahem challenges and that’s why we hosted our Barefoot For The Holidays event earlier this week (you can watch the whole thing here)! The event featured our lifestyle editor Kenzie Mastroe speaking with fellow Ina superfans Cassandra Schultz and Cintia Parsons the co-founders and masterminds behind Cassandra’s Kitchen. During the event, Parsons, Schultz and Mastroe discussed several Ina Garten-inspired tips, tricks and recipe ideas for this year’s socially distanced get-togethers and Cassandra Schultz showcased one Ina Garten dish, in particular, that is both the comfort we all need right now and a heartfelt gift: the Barefoot Contessa’s Baked Rigatoni with Lam
Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Margaret Atwood win 2020 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards
The Goodreads Readers Choice Awards are given out in 20 categories across several genres and are voted on by readers. More than five million votes were cast in 2020.
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Posted: Dec 09, 2020 12:45 PM ET | Last Updated: December 9, 2020
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (left) and Margaret Atwood are among the 2020 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards winners.(Martin Dee, Luis Mora/penguinrandomhouse.ca)