Specialty Bookselling

Based on the four weeks of sales ending October 26, 2003, as reported by hundreds of independent booksellers across the U.S. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

The graphic novel genre, or "Graphica," is now estimated to be a $100 million market, one which runs the gamut of subjects: from Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus (Pantheon) to all sorts of Japanese manga (comic books), from Harvey Pekar's American Splendor series to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (HarperPerennial).

Based on reporting from well over 400 independent bookstores across the U.S. during the period March 1, 2003, to October 12, 2003. Thanks to all the stores that report! Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

It's not a mystery why these titles were chosen by independent booksellers as their top ten picks for the fall. Thanks to all who contributed to the wealth of enthusiastic nominations. Pads of the Mystery 76 are being sent in the October White Box mailing, and a downloadable PDF file is available by clicking here.

Last week, Book Sense announced the Autumn 2003 Top Ten JFK Picks. The list is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide and is the second time Book Sense has compiled a list in association with The History Channel, which will air a week of specially themed programming focusing on JFK and his times next month. November 22 will mark 40 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

This is the third in a series of four articles looking at the results of the recently released 2002 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing, conducted by Ipsos BookTrends and published by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). This week's focus is the teen (14 to 17 years old) book market.

Based on four weeks of sales ended September 28, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Hard-boiled noir, taboo lesbian romances, radical science fiction, and other forms of pulp fiction written by women can be found in a new series called Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp, which was recently launched by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

This week, Book Sense is announcing the latest Book Sense 76 Top Ten list, the Autumn 2003 Top Ten JFK Picks.