In keeping with recent trends, books look to be what people buy as last-minute gifts: A final week surge lifted print book sales for the five-week holiday period into positive territory compared to last year, for at least the fourth year in a row. Bookscan statistics published Thursday show print book sales for the week ending December 24 through outlets they track of approximately 34.47 million units, or 2.16 million units above the same week last year, up 6.7 percent. That made all the difference, putting print sales over the past five weeks up 1.53 million units overall versus 2016, […]