The AAP released their May StatShot report, putting new data against a mostly flat marketplace. The outlier for the month is that ebook sales rose for the first time in long time, albeit marginally — at $88.4 million, up a big $2.4 million compared to $86 million a year ago. (May 2016 was down $19.4 million from May 2015, however. And the AAP data is in conflict with PubTrackDigital’s unit sales counts for May from their reporting publishers, which shows a significant decline year-over-year — so for now you should not read too much into this AAP stat.) Digital audio […]
