Further to our holiday sales analysis from a week ago, NPD Bookscan issued sales statistics for the final week of 2017, and the full year. Per the trends noted a week ago, physical sales as measured by service registered approximately 687 million units for 2017, up by 13 million units over 2016, for a 1.9 percent gain. (As also reported previously, since PubTrack Digital-measured ebook sales fell 13 million units in the first three quarters of the year, total units will be around flat.) Backlist was the driver, again, up 26.6 million books, for a 6.8 percent gain. That matches […]
