Industry Statistics

The Association of American Publishers released its StatShot financial report for January based on data from reporting publishers. Trade sales for the month were $662.5 million, down 1 percent from 2024. Adult books sold $483 million, a 3 percent decline, with fiction falling 6 percent to $249 million and nonfiction flat at $234 million. Hardcovers fell 3 percent to $152 million and paperbacks fell 8 percent to $166 million. Digital formats grew, however, with ebooks up 3 percent to $67.2 million and audio up 8 percent to $78.9 million. Children’s and YA books sales grew 5 percent to $179 million, […]

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 […]

The Association of American Publishers released November StatShot data from reporting publishers, noting trade sales of $818 million for the month, up 6 percent from 2023. Adult books drove the increase, with sales up 10 percent to $571 million. Fiction sales grew 19 percent to $273 million and nonfiction grew 2 percent to $298 million. Hardcover sales were up 8 percent to $228 million (40 percent of the market), paperbacks grew 13.6 percent to $167 million (29 percent), ebooks were up 1 percent to $71.2 million (12 percent), and audio continued to lead digital formats, growing 16 percent to $82 […]

Circana Bookscan issued a brief statement on 2024 print sales, with total units growing a rounded 1 percent in 2024, to 783 million units overall (up 5 million units from 2023). Note that for much financial reporting 2024 is a 53 week year — but for sales comparison purposes, Bookscan has adjusted to count only 52 sales weeks from 2024. (When publishers issue public reports, they will show 53-week years, with appropriate sales bumps for the extra week.) Adult fiction led the market, growing 9.5 million units to 201 million books, while adult nonfiction fell by 1.1 million units to […]