We’ve already had complete views on the first six months of 2016 from the publishers and retailers that report publicly, and now, almost six months after the fact, the AAP has issued their publisher-reported data for the month of March and the first quarter of the year. Per our detailed analysis in July, we are focusing on the quarterly reports over the monthly installments, and providing a lens that looks to hold up over time as useful. Gross print sales were up very slightly, at $1.4085 billion (just $2 million higher than the first quarter of 2015), as Nielsen Bookscan separately […]
