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Statistics 101: Juvenile Book Sales Did Not “Plummet”

April 23, 2015
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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