Further to Friday’s headline stats on 2012 print book sales, we have fuller information on data from Nielsen BookScan, along with our annual look at the top sellers in multiple categories. (As a reminder, Nielsen tracks print book sales only, at the point of sale.) Total print book sales for 2012 as recorded by BookScan were 591 million units, down 9.3 percent compared to 2011 (and those sales were down 9.25 percent from 2010). The 2012 data reflects both the absence of Borders from the marketplace, as well as the harder-to-quantify increase in ebook sales. Year-over-year comparisons are tricky, however, since […]
