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 with separate data already reported by the AAP, it was a positive year for trade publishing overall. BookStats puts overall trade publisher sales at $15.05 billion, up $969 million or 6.9 percent. Virtually all of that growth comes from ebooks rather than print books. They estimate the entire publishing business […]