Book sales update: October 12, 2022
Print book sales in the US are holding steady overall, now tracking at 5 percent lower than 2021, according to NPD BookScan.
Print book sales in the US are holding steady overall, now tracking at 5 percent lower than 2021, according to NPD BookScan.
Editor and critic Ann Kjellberg has written an article discussing how the romance genre was largely written off or ignored during the anti-trust trial.
Earlier this month, the Association of American Publishers released its 2021 sales figures.
Through August 2022, print book sales are down by 5 percent versus 2021, which is considered very good performance.
Big publishers can leverage smaller marketing spend to greater effect than smaller publishers.
Even though Barnes & Noble is having a tough time with new titles in hardcover, the format was selling well overall in 2021 for the children’s market.
As of August 6, this year’s print book sales are 6 percent below 2021 levels, according to NPD BookScan.
The mass market paperback format has been slowly declining for years, affected by lower-price ebooks and the migration of authors and publishers to the trade paperback format.
Through July 23, US print book sales are trending 6 percent lower than 2021.
BookNet Canada recently released print book sales figures for the first half of 2022.