The internet is so full of groundless stories about book publishing these days that the most efficient approach is for us to ignore most of them. But PW posted a story Thursday, “Juvenile Book Sales Plummet,” that is simply wrong and should be cleared up before the meme gets set. The thrust of the piece was this: Juvenile print book sales “plunged in the week ended April 19, 2015, compared to the similar week in 2014. Unit sales in the juvenile nonfiction category fell 39% in the week and dropped 46% in fiction at outlets that report to BookScan.” But they simply misunderstand how to make reasonable year-over-year […]
