The AAP continues with their program of much more timely release of the monthly StatShot statistics, publishing the February 2019 report. Unfortunately, as we suggested in reporting on the January data, asserting any meaningful comparisons has become more dubious still — particularly for adult books — given the large changes in the pool of reporting publishers. A year ago, adult trade sales for February were reported as $334 million, a gain over $301 million in 2017. But this year, the final re-reported version of the February 2018 adult trade data (reflecting historical data from the new pool of contributing publishers) […]