The AAP reported their monthly StatShot statistics for April, after dropping the first three monthly reports for the year in one batch on August 1. As usual, you should not read much into a single month’s report. Gross print shipments to accounts declined $42.5 million, or 7.5 percent, in April, with adult sales down a little…
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Handbook for Gaming Sales
The ABA has admitted belatedly that Lani Sarem’s Handbook for Mortals “should not have made it onto the Indie Bestsellers list” last week (where it was listed as the No. 2 young adult fiction hardcover) and “it isn’t appearing this week.” The organization added, “We’re always reviewing our procedures to improve them, and, following this, we…
Measured Trade Print and eBook Units Near Flat In First Half
NPD Bookscan posted a headline report on book sales for the first half of 2017, with the trends of the last couple of years continuing: Print sales continue to rise modestly, through online and book-focused stores, pretty much balanced out by declines in ebook sales. Through outlets tracked by NPD Bookscan, print book sales for…
Revised AAP Stats Show Trade Just Above Flat In First Quarter
After a quiet delay, the AAP released their StatShot sales data for the first quarter of 2017. (The main press release presents rolled up Q1 data only. But the organization still tabulates their data on a monthly basis, and provided monthly breakouts for each individual month to members in the same format as previously.) You…
Blended Statistics Part 3: The Full Consumer Market
Thanks to those who have been writing in with enjoyment of our StatsFest, and apologies to those who are overwhelmed (we’re trying to make this as straight forward as possible), but we soldier on. Today’s installment is brief, but important, as we knit together numbers across trade — and this will prove important ground work…
Blended Statistics, Part 2: The Amazon Market
In our first installment of blended statistics that combine standard industry measures with data slices from Authors Earnings and our own research and adjustments, we looked at the 2016 market for individually sold ebooks. In that paid download market, the one in which traditional publishers conduct nearly all of their business, publishers captured 80 percent…