New book production in the UK declined slightly in 2010 according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Book, remaining robust at 151,969 titles. That is a 3.2 decline from 2009’s final count of 157,039 titles, and still the second-highest total recorded. (Nielsen notes that in 2009, the final count was considerably higher than the preliminary tally.) Overall sales volume as measured by Nielsen BookScan UK’s total consumer market tabulation puts UK book sales for 2010 at 229.3 million units (down 2.7 percent) and 1.72 billion pounds in consumer revenues (down 1.7 percent). Those figures are based on an unusual 53-week sales […]
