The AAP released their StatShot data for last December and all of 2017. The real headline, as we have suggested a few times already, is that 2016 was a much better year than originally calculated. This time a year, we were told by the AAP, reported publisher sales for 2016 were $6.63 billion — down $17 million compared from 2015. But now, in the final analysis (AAP modifies the previous year’s data month by month as the comparison baseline), 2016 sales were a big $7.006 billion. So we missed our chance to proclaim that 2016 was up by 5.4 percent. […]