The Association of American Publishers released its StatShot data for December and for all of 2022 from participating publishers, with trade sales falling 6.2 percent for the year and 6.4 percent for the month. Net trade sales for the year were $8.385 billion, down from $8.938 billion. As with Bookscan-reported print sales figures, that is still a substantial gain over 2020 (when trade sales totaled $7.88 billion) and 2019 (at $7.40 billion), and the second-best total ever. Adult sales were $5.76 billion, down 6.4 percent (-$394 million), while children’s and YA books dropped 5.7 percent (-$159 million) to $2.619 million. […]