Consistent with our deal stats preview from Friday, the most notable trend from this London Book Fair dealmaking season is the surge of big deals — and “major” deals in particular — for nonfiction. And that’s without counting Hachette’s pickup of Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein’s next book, or other just-announced nonfiction from today including books…
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London Book Fair Deal Trends: Market Swings Hard to Nonfiction
It’s that time again. We leave behind the luminous, rapturous accounts of heated snapping up of a few projects in advance of an upbeat rights fair to give you a look at the actual data on the marketplace for new book projects over the past five weeks, starting March 5. As usual, today we provide…
November AAP Data Reveals Little
The AAP released their StatShot figures for November 2017 — another month in which revisions to the final comparison data from November 2016 makes any declaration of year-over-year changes pointless. That’s because a year ago, the AAP told us November 2016 net trade sales were $732.1 million ($512.5 million adult; $219.6 million children’s/YA). But now…
AAP Stats Rebounded In October
AAP StatShot figures show a strong October 2017, though we have demonstrated that this measure has extreme fluctuations from month to month (and is further complicated by a constantly revised historical baseline). The trade was due for a strong October, since September AAP numbers were down. Also, a year ago publishers had steered their big…
Washington Post Revamps Bestsellers, Becomes Amazoned
The Washington Post revised their bestseller lists, previously based solely on Bookscan print sales data, to incorporate data from their cousins at Amazon. Adding the etailer’s ebook sales gives the lists an extra dimension that brings them closer to lists from the New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, however, the…
AAP Shows Business Flat After Three Quarters of 2017, But Up From the Original Picture In 2016
The AAP released monthly StatShot data for September, and in turn the first three quarters of the year, showing a business that was between flat and down somewhat — unless you compare it to how we thought the industry was doing a year ago, in which case there is some improvement. As we explained at…