Ingram Content Group held a webinar on Wednesday reviewing some key learnings and trends for the book publishing industry from 2020, and how those developments are carrying over to 2021. Among the topics covered, the company’s digital sales are even stronger so far in 2021 than they were in 2020, with overall sales up 30 percent — driven by academic digital sales, which are up by more than 120 percent. Looking at consumer behavior around books, Pete McCarthy noted, “We saw in 2020 about a 50 percent rise in book-related searches on Google and Amazon…which is a huge shift.” He […]
