As promised last week, we have looked again at deal reports from October 1 through October 7 (so it does not include the new wave of Monday announcements), to see if last-minute activity would change the analysis of this season’s deal patterns leading up to the Frankfurt Book Fair. The big trend observed in September–significantly higher fiction sales, driven by higher than ever sales of romance and women’s fiction–continued apace. (Fiction sales were once again significantly higher in this period than ever observed before.) Children’s sales finally rose, after registering unusually low in September, and the total number of US […]
