With full-year NPD Bookscan stats for 2019 now available, the AAP turns back the clock a little with the release of its October StatShot. Overall adult sales in October were $561 million, down from $583 million in 2018 (or $600 million in the original 2018 reporting, continuing the correction trend we have noted throughout 2019)….
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Zareen Jaffery will join Kokila as executive editor on January 13. She was previously executive editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Rachel Beck has joined Liza Dawson Associates as agent. She was previously an agent with Holloway Literary. Emily Duval has been promoted to manager, library marketing at Random House Children’s. Natalie Capogrossi has joined…
AAP April Stats Include Another $38 Million Gap
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…
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…