The ABA named Kim Fay's Love & Saffron as their No. 1 pick for February.
Archives for January 2022
Edgar Award Nominees
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2022 Edgar Awards, which will be presented in an in-person and virtual ceremony on April 28.
Pearson Sales Up 8 Percent for 2021; WH Smith End-of-Year Meets Expectations
Pearson announced their year-end trading report featuring sales highlights for 2021 (the full year-end report will be available on February 25), with results “ahead of expectations.” Group sales rose 8 percent overall, led by everything that isn’t actual education publishing: Assessment & Qualifications (18 percent), English Language Learning (17 percent), Virtual Learning (11 percent) and Workforce Skills (6 percent), due to Covid recovery and growth in virtual learning enrollment in the 2020-21 school year. The Higher Education segment remained weak, down (5) percent, attributed to a decline in US courseware. That line fell 12 percent in both 2020 and 2019. […]
2021: The Year In Deals, and the Stats Behind the Boom
Overall Stats As we documented during the year, deal activity boomed in the first two quarters of 2021: US deal reports were up about 19 percent overall, and six-figure deals rose even more. In the second half of the year, dealmaking remained steady with a strong period from 2020, with the biggest “major” deals jumping at year-end. By year end, total deals rose more in 2021 than in 2020, and six-figure deals or better were particularly strong. At the same time, translation deals came roaring back after falling in 2020. Specifically: – US deals were up 9.4 percent overall, even more than […]
Fourth Quarter Deals
Bringing one of our important new projects full cycle, here is our recap of deal statistics for the fourth quarter of 2021. As indicated in our three previous reports, US dealmaking continued to align roughly with consumer book sales, up a little bit in the fourth quarter after a softer third quarter and a robust first half of the year. Nonfiction and fiction deals both declined slightly compared to a big quarter in 2020, but remained near high points for the past five years, as children’s deals continued their uninterrupted growth — putting total deals for the quarter up 1 […]