Less than three years after its founding, Sourcebooks’ Bloom Books imprint is having a banner year, on track to finish 2023 with almost $100 million in gross sales worldwide according to the company. That has to make the line among the fastest-growing new imprints ever. In outlets tracked by Circana Bookscan, Bloom Books has sold 6.4 million print units so far in 2023, rocketing up from just under 1 million units the same time a year ago. Highlights include sales of more than 1.85 million print units of books by Ana Huang this year, and over 1.5 million print units […]
Industry Statistics
Sales Trends Turn Positive
For the last three weeks, Circana Bookscan’s weekly totals of print book sales have been ahead of results for 2022, showing positive signs from the marketplace heading into the biggest sales period of the year. The only other time this year that current weekly sales have run ahead of last year for more than one week at a time was a five-week streak in March and April headed into Easter. The total market gained approximately 500,000 units over the past three weeks versus the same sales weeks in 2022, with the gains driven by adult titles, which were up 4 […]
Cleaner Returns Boost August AAP Sales
The AAP released StatShot data for August, with shipments to accounts looking strong ahead of the fall season. Sales from reporting publishers were $701 million, up 6.4 percent (or $45 million) from a relatively weak August a year ago. A better return rate contributed to the strong month, and the bar for August 2022 was reset lower as well: The revised and final data has that month registering sales of $659 million, versus the originally reported $686 million. Adult books sold $486 million overall, up 7.6 percent, with $148 million in hardcovers (a 19.4 percent gain) and $182.5 million in […]
Trade Sales Down 6 Percent in July, While eBooks and Digital Audio Grow
The AAP released Statshot data from participating publishers for July, reporting trade sales of $557 million, down 6.4 percent from $595 million last year. Sales for adult books were $399 million, down 4.6 percent from $418 million. Hardcovers sold $96.4 million, down 2.3 percent, while paperbacks fell 10.1 percent to $149.6 million. The biggest gain in the category was in digital audio, which grew 14.6 percent to $61.5 million. Consistent with the year’s trend, children’s and YA sales declined more, at $158 million, a 10.7 percent drop from $177 million in July 2022. Hardcovers were up 3.4 percent to $49.3 […]
June Adult Sales Made Up for Declines in Children’s
The AAP announced StatShot results for June, with trade sales flat at $586.6 million (compared to $590.4 million last year). Adult sales increased by 5.9 percent or $24.1 million to $430.7 million, offsetting a 15.2 percent decline in children’s sales, which totaled $155.9 million. In adult books, hardcovers earned $121.8 million, up 20.4 percent. Paperbacks gained 4.1 percent to $157.4 million, while digital audio rose 17.4 percent to $62.6 million. Ebook sales fell 5.7 percent to $65.4 million. For children’s and YA books, hardcovers fell 17.2 percent to $44.4 million and paperbacks declined 14.6 percent to $78.6 million. Digital audio […]
AAP Trade Sales Were Flat in May, Despite Losses in Children’s
The AAP released sales data for May from their participating StatShot publishers, reporting flat trade sales at $601 million. In adult books, sales were $426.5 million, up from $403.4 last year. Hardcovers grew by 12 percent to $137.9 million and paperbacks were up 3 percent to $143.5 million. Digital audio was up 17 percent to $59 million. Children’s and YA books have been on a down trend all year, and sales in May fell 14 percent to $174.9 million. Hardcovers were down 12 percent to $62.4 million and paperbacks fell 14 percent to $84 million. Digital formats were the only […]