The AAP released its monthly StatShot report for April, most notable for featuring yet another large restatement of the prior year’s adult trade sales. The final version of the April 2018 adult trade total now stands at $392, or $38 million lower than when first reported a year ago. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks were both…
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UK Consumer Print Sales Fell for PRH In 2018 As Others Gained
As we head into annual report season, the Bookseller looks at publishers’ UK revenue figures, as measured by Nielsen Bookscan UK’s Total Consumer Market. (So this captures UK consumer print revenues only — excluding ebooks, digital audio, and export sales, the latter of which can account for roughly half of UK publishers’ sales.) It was…
Germany’s Book Trade Trended Slightly Positive in 2018 — Thanks to Price Increases
In 2018, Germans bought fewer books, but paid more for them, according to stats in the January issue of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association’s publication. “The [sales] balance for the year 2018 is … a wafer-thin increase of 0.1 percent” according to the report, but the number of copies sold fell by 1.4 percent….
Holiday Sales Figures Are Becoming Better
Because the just-released NPD Bookscan sales data covers the week ending December 22, it’s too early to make any definitive statements about the important holiday sales period — but the indication is that once again, holiday book sales experienced a strong final surge, even if it’s not the same big holiday lift that retailers in…
S&S Reports FEAR Sold Over 750,000 Units On Opening Day
Simon & Schuster announced big opening day sales for Bob Woodward’s FEAR, saying it sold “more than 750,000” units across all formats. Pre-orders “were the largest for any title in Simon & Schuster company history.” Another reprint was ordered Tuesday, which will give them 1.15 million copies in print. S&S president and publisher Jonathan Karp said…
The Final Statistics of the Year (2017)
The AAP released their StatShot data for last December and all of 2017. The real headline, as we have suggested a few times already, is that 2016 was a much better year than originally calculated. This time a year, we were told by the AAP, reported publisher sales for 2016 were $6.63 billion — down…