NPD Bookscan’s final count of unit book sales for 2018 came in at 696 million books, a 1.3 percent gain over the 687 million units tracked in 2017. Adding 9 million units over 2017’s total, that is the smallest gain in the latest 5 years, when the print market has grown continuously, even as the ebook units for traditional publishers have declined by larger amounts. (We have amended our preliminary report from last week, which had included some non-book product.) Per our preview last week, adult nonfiction gained 14 million units on its own, up 4.9 percent over 2018. Cooking […]