The print book trade still has not shaken off the post-election drag on sales, even with holiday sales well underway, Nielsen Bookscan statistics show. As we noted a month ago, much of the year’s performance will depend on how the final holiday book sales push fares. Despite Barnes & Noble’s quite public complaints, overall the lead up to the election did not appear to dampen book sales, though quarter by quarter 2016’s gains on 2015 have been ebbing throughout the year. The real “election effect” came the week of the presidential election itself and the following week, and print sales […]
