Until it’s revised a year from now, we have to work with the AAP’s report of a 4 percent gain (or $258 million) in trade sales during 2014, to $6.631 billion. As noted in our full report, all of the gains and then some — $325 million in all — came from strong children’s/YA sales, which rose $325 million. With all but one major publisher having reported individual results for 2014, we prepared a summary version of how those industry-wide results look on a publisher-by-publisher basis. Notably, the publisher we are still waiting on is the largest: Penguin Random House, which claimed a […]
