The AAP released monthly StatShot data for both May and June on Wednesday. As we have been explaining, you can’t really make comparisons to the previous year, since the final 2018 baseline data for adult trade sales has been lowered month after month. (It appears that some sales were shifted from adult trade to their religious presses category — where 2018 sales through June were revised upwards by $80 million, or a big 37 percent. But adult trade sales for 2018 have been lowered more than that.) This happened a year ago, too, when first half-year adult trade sales for […]
