The AAP reported December 2019 sales and released their full totals for 2019 sales, along with final numbers for 2018. Though the historical baseline was revised lower for much of the year for adult sales, the final totals wind up matching the report from a year ago almost exactly. The organization’s pool of reporting publishers recorded 2019 trade sales that were almost exactly flat, registering $7.249 billion in 2019, versus $7.245 billion in 2018. (For comparison, AAP-reported trade sales were $6.926 billion in 2017, and $7.006 billion in 2016.) Adult sales fell $139 million in 2019, down 1.9 percent, while […]