Falling coloring book sales are hurting bookstores

For the past two years, adult coloring books have been big business. Walk into a bookstore, and you’d likely see a rack of them featured prominently by the door. That craze might be coming to an end, however. Barnes & Noble reported its third quarter profits today, which slipped from expectations. The reason? Coloring book and art supply sales have begun to slip.That’s potentially bad news for physical bookstores. Beginning in late 2015, sales of gimmicky books full of complicate