Increased Book Sales at Hastings Chain Result of Used Book Sales
By Jane • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •Hastings Entertainment’s sale of books has increased 5.6% in the last quarter, bettering the increases in movies and music sales. The problem for publishers is part of the increase is due to the rise in used book sales.
Hastings said sales of new trade paperbacks, including Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth, as well as higher sales of used trade paper and hardcover titles, lead the gain in the period.
I would expect to see more used book store sales relative to new given the tightening economy.
Via Publishers’ Weekly.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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