The Association of American Publishers shared data from participating StatShot publishers, reporting trade book sales of $620 million for December, down 7 percent. That end-of-year softness stood in contrast to a year in which overall trade sales were strong, growing 4.76 percent on the strength of the adult fiction market and still-rising digital audio sales. For December, adult books sold $457 million, down 6 percent from the previous year. Fiction sold $230 million, falling 3 percent, and nonfiction sold $226 million, down 9 percent. Hardcovers fell 5 percent to $148 million and paperbacks fell 11 percent to $141 million. Ebooks […]
Archives for March 2025
GMA Book Club Pick
New Books Publishing March 4
This week’s fiction releases include books by Laila Lalami, Freida McFadden, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Amal El-Mohtar, while new nonfiction includes work from Samina Ali, Chloe Dalton, and Amanda Nguyen. March’s children’s releases include novels from Suzanne Collins, Tracy Deonn, Nic Stone, and Trang Thanh Tran. Also publishing this week are novels by Georgia Hunter and Nanda Reddy, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler, and K.L. Walther’s WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, excerpted in our 2024: Romance anthology. 30 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-4 16 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-4 39 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/march-2025-children-s-releases […]
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