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Prince Harry’s memoir breaks sales records

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Jane Friedman

Spare is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction book—it sold 400,000 copies across all formats on its first day on sale.

Categories Bestsellers Tags Book sales, Hot Shots, UK

2022 is second-best sales year on record for print

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Jane Friedman

2022 came in 5.8 percent below 2021 in terms of print unit sales, and the children’s market made up half of that decline.

Categories Bookselling Tags Book sales, Hot Shots, NPD Bookscan

Book sales update: first week of 2023

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Jane Friedman

According to NPD BookScan, print unit sales were down 1 percent from 2022 for the first week of the year.

Categories Bookselling, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Hot Shots, NPD Bookscan

Top 10 Bestsellers of 2022

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Jane Friedman

Colleen Hoover claims six of the top ten spots.

Categories Bestsellers, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Hot Shots, NPD Bookscan

Book sales update: January 4, 2023

January 4, 2023 by Jane Friedman

Good news: The final week of holiday sales in 2022 outpaced the same week from 2021.

Categories Bookselling, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Hot Shots

Book sales update: December 21, 2022

December 21, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Michelle Obama’s most recent book had less than one quarter of the first-week print sales of her 2018 memoir, Becoming.

Categories Sales Figures & Trends Tags Book sales, Hot Shots

Book sales update: December 7, 2022

January 18, 2023December 7, 2022 by Jane Friedman

According to NPD BookScan, this holiday season is underperforming compared to 2021.

Categories Bookselling, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Bookscan, Hot Shots, NPD Bookscan

Publishers see sales declines this fall due to low orders from Amazon

November 28, 2022November 23, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Amazon is tightening its belt by laying off workers, pulling back on expansion of its fulfillment network, and closing some warehouses.

Categories Amazon Tags Book sales, Hot Shots

Book sales update: November 23, 2022

January 18, 2023November 23, 2022 by Jane Friedman

This year’s holiday print book sales in the US are lining up closely with 2020, according to NPD BookScan.

Categories Bookselling, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Bookscan, Hot Shots, NPD Bookscan

Book sales update: December 22, 2021

November 14, 2022December 22, 2021 by Jane Friedman

According to NPD BookScan, backlist has continued to drive print sales this year comprising over two-thirds of all unit sales.

Categories Bookselling, Industry Research Tags Book sales, Hot Shots
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