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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.
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.
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.
BookNet Canada recently released print book sales figures for the first half of 2022.
Publishers Weekly recently compiled NPD BookScan data on sales in major categories, comparing 2021 to 2022.
At The Bookseller Marketing and Publicity conference, Hazel Kenyon of Nielsen Book Research in the UK presented the latest stats on the UK book market.
Scholar Adam Mastroianni argues that pop culture—whether the medium is movies, music, books, or games—has become an oligopoly.
The 10 biggest book markets in the United States have seen their sales performance decline relative to the overall market.
With some caveats, banned books that make national news typically enjoy a sales bump, according to figures from NPD Books.
Recently, NPD Books analyst Kristen McLean discussed how BookTok is driving adult fiction sales in the US.
NPD Books analyst Kristen McLean recently reflected on the past 18 years of book sales.