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Prince Harry’s memoir breaks sales records

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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