The AAP announced their tabulation of sales for September from reporting publishers. In the closely-watched ebook sales category–where the AAP’s monthly number is the only standing statistic we have to go on, the 18 reporting publishers recorded sales of $80.3 million, down from $88.8 million in August. (Two university presses, Stanford and University of Nebraska, were added to the tabulations starting this month.) With strong fall shipments of printed books, ebook sales were lower than both hardcover and trade paperback adult sales, and comprised 15.7 percent of all recorded trade sales. (As a reminder, the AAP counts religious sales as […]
