Thanks to everyone who was written or posted for all of the kind PublishersMarketplace anniversary wishes. One of the nice things about building and maintaining a unique set of industry resources is that we can generate all kinds of long-view data and analysis. (You’ve seen this from time to time with our charts of deal stats and assessments of publishers that garner the most full-length book reviews.) One core coverage area of ours that we’re quietly proud of even though it’s not particularly glamorous to traditional journalists is what we call People. Long ago we made thorough tracking of job […]
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At Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Andrew Smith has been promoted to svp, deputy publisher, executive director of New Business Development, focusing on building the company’s licensing program and expanding its digital initiatives. Of Smith’s promotion, evp, publisher Megan Tingley stated: “In the seven years since he joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, the publishing landscape has changed dramatically and Andrew has been a vital and visionary force in developing strategies for success and growth across Editorial, Design, Marketing, Publicity, Subsidiary Rights, and Sales.” Google Play has expanded into nine additional countries in Asia, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, […]
eBook Sales Fall Three Months In A Row As Overall Trade Declines Continue
The AAP issued a belated double batch of sales statistics for May and June from their approximately 1,200 reporting publishers, along with sub-totals for the first half of the year. Just as remarkable sales for The Hunger Games and then Fifty Shades lifted results in 2012, the absence of monster hits since then continues to weigh on industry-wide stats. The two big numerical trends continued: After flattening last fall, overall trade sales have declined for 8 consecutive months. And ebook sales, which had been growing — albeit slowly — have now declined for 3 straight months. May trade sales of $525 […]
AAP Trade Sales Fell 12 Percent in April; eBooks Actually Dropped 13.5 Percent
The AAP released their Stat Shot sales data for April, collected from approximately 1,200 publishers. With difficult comparisons to a year ago, when Hunger Games was still hot and the Fifty Shades series was just taking off for Vintage, the numbers show declines across the board. Overall trade sales of $490 million were down 12 percent from the previous year. The number that will draw the most remarks is the ebook sales total for the month of $120.5 million, down 13.5 percent compared to 2012, a rare decline for that closely-watched category. But a closer look shows how the drops […]
2012 Exports Grow In Line with Trade Sales
The AAP released their second annual report of export sales statistics, extrapolated from the Book Stats data stream and supplemented with additional country-specific data from 150 publishers. As with the previous report, the highlight data provided to us in the press release covers everywhere except Canada — the largest export territory — since some publishers include it within their domestic account. (The full paid report includes information on Canadian sales.) Like the US trade, 2012 exports rose over 7 percent, to $833 million. The unit gain was smaller, at 2.4 percent, and nearly all of the revenue increase came from […]
BookStats Posits That Trade Grew Almost 7 Percent in 2012, Thanks to eBooks
BookStats has released selected industry data for 2012 Wednesday morning and supplemented that release in an initial presentation at the Making Information Pay conference held at NYU. The full data dashboard will be released to paying clients next week, and the entire formal report will be issued in June. Consistent with separate data already reported by the AAP, it was a positive year for trade publishing overall. BookStats puts overall trade publisher sales at $15.05 billion, up $969 million or 6.9 percent. Virtually all of that growth comes from ebooks rather than print books. They estimate the entire publishing business […]