The Revamped USA Today Bestseller List Isn’t What It Used to Be
The USA Today list was once an important bestseller list for self-publishing authors. The revamp has so far changed that.
The USA Today list was once an important bestseller list for self-publishing authors. The revamp has so far changed that.
Big publishers find it hard to change long-held processes for bringing books to market.
Two authors seemingly on similar publishing trajectories experienced very different outcomes, and started a podcast to examine why.
According to the AAP, which consists of traditional publishers in various sectors, consumer sales dropped 6.2 percent in 2022 against 2021.
For now, 2023 is performing comparable to 2022 (roughly 1 percent down), according to NPD BookScan, which tracks print book sales.
OverDrive, the leading distributor of digital books to libraries, recently announced that digital lending increased 10 percent over 2021.
According to NPD BookScan, print unit sales were down 1 percent from 2022 for the first week of the year.
Colleen Hoover claims six of the top ten spots.
According to OverDrive, which distributes digital materials to 22,000 libraries in 45 countries, these were the most popular titles globally.
Good news: The final week of holiday sales in 2022 outpaced the same week from 2021.