The AAP reported July sales for the 1,200 or so publishers who provide them with monthly data (so covering only the first part of the third quarter that public companies are reporting now), with solid gains in trade, at $555.7 million, up $55.3 million from a year ago. Notably, children’s books and YA, which powered nearly all of the trade’s increase in 2014, turned positive for the first month so far in 2015. Children’s sales of $142.3 million were up $14.7 million. Children’s hardcovers turned positive, up $3.6 million, with most of the increase coming from trade paperbacks, up $10.5 […]