The AAP reported monthly StatShot statistics compiled from 1,080 reporting publishers for August. Trade sales of $643.8 million were up $35.6 million compared to a year ago, up 5.9 percent. Adult sales rose by $22.7 million, as children’s and young adult sales were up by $12.9 million. On the consumer side, digital audio continued its…
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Amazon’s CreateSpace Continues to Grow, Devour Self-Published Print Market
Bowker released their annual statistics for 2017 charting the release of self-published books that carry ISBNs issued by the company (and as we know, a large number of self-published titles, particularly ebooks, do not carry ISBNs at all). The report has essentially become a chronicle of Amazon’s steady march to dominate print self-publishing in the…
Dealmaking Is Modest Heading into Frankfurt, As Nonfiction and Film/TV Gain
With the Frankfurt Book Fair now officially underway, it’s time for our regular look at dealmaking trends ahead of the show (in the five week period from the day after Labor Day to yesterday). This year’s deal activity has been in line with both recent trends — ahead of the London Book Fair in April…
Trade Prepares for NPD BookScan’s Migration
Next week, BookScan will complete its transition from the old Nielsen platform to the NPD system and at outset, the biggest adjustment for users may be getting accustomed to system updates on a different day of the week. At launch, BookScan’s weekly data will be refreshed on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. That change may only…
AAP Sales Rebounded Some In July
As we have noted many times, AAP sales data can reflect significant swings from month to month, and that holds true for their just released July StatShot data. Following a soft June report (adult sales were down 5.7 percent and children’s/YA sales were down 10.7 percent), it makes sense that the July data swings the…
AAP Trade Sales Look Up A Little In the First Half — But Only Because Last Year’s Data Was Wrong
The AAP reported monthly StatShot data for June as well as summary data for the first six months of the year and as is often the case — though you never read this in other accounts — the most notable element is the changes in their 2017 comparison data. (Our brief reminder: Every time the…