The Association of American Publishers announced sales data for October from its participating StatShot publishers, reporting trade book sales up 2.8 percent to $1.03 billion. (That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales.) Adult books rose 6 percent to a record $745 million, with $393 million in fiction (up 11.3 percent) and nonfiction just above flat at $351 million. The category saw growth in every format, with hardcovers up 8.8 percent to $336 million, paperbacks up 3.5 percent to […]
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Adult and Kids Books Grow for a 10 Percent Increase in September
Trade book sales were strong in September, with the Association of American Publishers reporting $947 million in sales from participating publishers — a 10 percent increase. Both adult and children’s books grew in the month. In adult books, sales were up 11.3 percent to $662.5 million, with $359 million in fiction (up 15.4 percent) and $303 in nonfiction (up 6.8 percent). Print books led the growth, with hardcovers up 18.3 percent to $285 million and paperbacks up 17.3 percent to $201 million. Digital audio fell 3.5 percent to $76 million and ebooks fell 8 percent to $73 million. Children’s and […]
August Book Sales Fell 10 Percent
The Association of American Publishers announced August sales data from participating StatShot publishers, reporting trade sales of $716 million in the month, down 9.6 percent from last year. Adult books sold $522 million, down 10 percent. Fiction sold $304 million, down 3 percent, and adult nonfiction fell 17 percent to $218 million. Hardcovers sold $164 (down 4 percent), paperbacks sold $183 million (down 15.5 percent), digital audio sold $79.5 million (down 4 percent), and ebooks sold $75.9 million (down 4 percent). In children’s and YA books, sales fell 9.6 percent to $194 million, with $162 million in fiction sales (down […]
Print Sales Held Steady In the Third Quarter, Down Slightly
Circana Bookscan formally reported print sales data for the third quarter, when the “market remained steady” — running at 1 percent below sales from the previous year, as was the case in the second quarter. Adult fiction sales declined 1.3 million units in the quarter, and young adult unit sales fell 4 percent. In contrast, children’s books grew 2 percent overall in the quarter, led by children’s nonfiction sales, which rose 6 percent. You can follow Bookscan data all the time through our range of data offers, which go from full agency licenses that provide full market data down to […]
Adult and Kids Books Report Double-Digit Decreases in July
The Association of American Publishers reported July sales data from Statshot publishers, reporting overall trade sales of $619 million in July, down 13 percent. Adult book sales dropped 14 percent to $454 million during the month, with fiction sales down 10 percent to $277 million and nonfiction down 18 percent to $177.5 million in nonfiction. Hardcovers sold $118 million (down 9 percent), paperbacks sold $162 million (down 16 percent), ebooks sold $74 million (down 5 percent) and digital audio sold $78 million (down 20 percent). Children’s and YA books sold $164.5 million, a 10 percent decrease from last year, including […]
Fiction Still Leads In Pre-Frankfurt Deal Period
As we noted earlier in the month, third-quarter dealmaking in the US remained fairly strong even as the consumer marketplace wobbled, with total deal reports gaining slightly, despite a modest pullback from record spending a year ago. In the more concentrated five-week-plus pre-Frankfurt dealmaking, we see similar trends, with publisher spending a little stronger than during the third quarter, though still backing down just a bit from last year’s FBF period. As has been the case for some time, adult fiction continues to lead the market — particularly among publishers’ largest investments — while adult nonfiction and children’s books continue […]