The AAP reported their monthly StatShot statistics for April. Per our long look at the reliability of these monthly tabulations, our main monthly takeaway is on the digital data. Adult ebook sales of $85.2 million were down $23.9 million compared to a year ago; children’s ebook sales were $8.4 million, down from $11.7 million a year ago;…
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AAP Releases Annual Estimates
On Monday, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released headline data from the second set of statistics they maintain, called StatShot Annual. In contrast to their monthly reports, which collect dollar sales only as actual reported data from about 1,200 publishers, StatShot Annual tabulates more detailed dollar and unit sales data from almost 1,800 publishers…
eBook Sales Trends and Yet Another Surprise (Newspapers Are Far From Dead)
The other day we learned that you can take something that isn’t news, put it on the front page of the printed NYT, and it becomes very important. While people who work in book publishing likely shrugged at the combination of well-established trends and selective interpretation — ebook sales for traditional publishers have been roughly flat…
Partnerships: Nielsen Collaborates With China’s Openbook; and More
Nielsen has signed a collaboration agreement with Openbook, the largest Chinese book retail tracking service provider, in which both companies will share and provide information to one another in both the US and Chinese markets. Openbook will publish weekly overall and genre-specific US and UK book sales charts, as well as US and UK rights…
2014 In Print Sales: Units Rose on Final Holiday Push, But Bestseller Dollars Fell Significantly
A late holiday shopping push lifted seasonal book sales, putting print book sales as measured by Nielsen Bookscan for the last four weeks of the year at approximately 96 million units, up 6 million books or 6.7 percent compared to the same period in 2013. (Over half of the gain came in the final week…
“Traditional Titles” Dip Slightly in 2013, Bowker Reports
Bowker released its estimates of print book production for 2013, noting that what they call “traditional” output–which includes self-publishers like CreateSpace, but excludes public domain POD factories like BiblioBazaar — dipped 2 percent from 309,957 titles in 2012 to a projected 304,912 titles in 2013. Despite the decline as compared to the previous year (and…