BookStats has released selected industry data for 2012 Wednesday morning and supplemented that release in an initial presentation at the Making Information Pay conference held at NYU. The full data dashboard will be released to paying clients next week, and the entire formal report will be issued in June. Consistent…
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Trade Paperbacks Boost Adult Trade November AAP Numbers, With Overall eBook Sales at 18 Percent
The AAP released their monthly StatShot report for November 2012, showing flat trade sales overall but a small spike in the growth of ebooks--which comprised 18.1 percent of all trade revenues in the month. Adult trade sales of $434.5 million were up $9.6 million from a year ago. Adult hardcovers…
September Sales Rose Modestly As eBook Percentage Dropped Again (And K-12 Suffered)
The AAP released their monthly StatShot report for September 2012, with data from close to 1200 publishers, and as they state, it "reflects the trends we've seen all year: continued publishing growth overall with significant increases in children's/young adult (especially eBook format) and slight erosion in religion publishing." For September,…
Sizing the UK eBook Market
The Bookseller obtained 2012 unit sale data on ebooks from six of the UK's largest publishers, leading them to postulate that the total British ebook market comprised £235 million in publisher sales last year. (If their estimate is correct, it would mean that the top publishers have a much smaller…
ABA Sales Softened In Second Half; UK eSales Still Lag US Considerably
As a group, ABA bookstores had a good year in 2012--but what's implied in this BTW story is more significant than the stated statistics, ratifying our "story we can't report" from yesterday. The ABA provides another indication that, despite happy anecdotal holiday sales reports,holiday book sales were soft, providing a…
The Year In Deals: 2012
It's time for our annual look at trends in dealmaking from the previous, based as usual on reports to Publishers Marketplace. Which comes with the usual qualifiers: PM deal reports represent only a portion of activity in the marketplace, and characterizations of deal size in particular are dependent upon disclosure…
Print Sales Fall Over 9 Percent In US, 3.4 Percent In UK
US print book sales as tracked by Nielsen BookScan fell 9.3 percent in units for 2012. The biggest decline came from the smallest format segment, mass market books, where unit sales fell 20.5 percent. Trade paperbacks weakened more than hardcovers during the year. (Nielsen BookScan does not currently track US…
Nielsen BookScan Expands to Include Walmart Data
Nielsen BookScan US announced that they are incorporating sales data from what has been the largest elusive seller of physical books in the US. Beginning with the first week of January 2013, point-of-sale data for printed books sold at over 4,000 Walmart locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico will…
As In June, Trade Paperbacks and eBooks Carry the Trade
The AAP reported sales for July from the nearly 1,200 publishers they track. Overall net trade sales of $522.5 million were up 12 percent, with all of the gains and then some coming from trade paperbacks and adult--very adult--ebooks, still led by the remarkable 50 Shades trilogy. July's trade total…
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