Book sales update: 2024 outlook
As of the week ending March 2, print book sales are down 4 percent versus last year, according to Circana BookScan.
As of the week ending March 2, print book sales are down 4 percent versus last year, according to Circana BookScan.
US print book sales were down by 6 percent compared to the same period in 2023, driven by a decline in adult nonfiction
Circana BookScan book industry analyst Kristen McLean recently offered a list of areas to keep an eye on this year.
Now that all the data is in, BookScan reports that US print sales were down 3 percent in 2023 compared to 2022.
Hachette has the strongest ebook sales; it sold nearly 4 million more ebooks than Penguin Random House.
Publishers Weekly crunched the numbers on their 2023 hardcover lists and found that the Big Five held about 85% of bestseller slots overall.
That still beats the performance of 2020 and is way ahead of pre-pandemic 2019.
Circana BookScan reports that adult fiction in the US market saw its best holiday sales (for print) in five years.
Poetry is experiencing its biggest sales year ever in the UK, according to figures from Nielsen.
According to Circana BookScan, print book sales are down 3 percent versus 2022—a stronger-than-expected performance for this year so far.