Adult Trade categories combined (Hardcover, Paperback and Mass Market) were US$ 156.8 M, down 34.4 % in February.
Right now, it's
the Adult Trade category that is suffering the biggest declines, following moderate declines last year.
Not exact matches
The paper tome apparently hit rock bottom in 2012, but has since rallied in
categories from children's books to
adult non-fiction, and formats from
trade paperback to hardcover.
Even including the children's / young
adult categories, printed books totaled $ 215.2 M for the month, giving e-books a staggering 29.56 % share of total
trade book sales.
According to the survey, ebooks sales in the
adult trade fiction
category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3... [Read more...]
While Religious Presses and Children's & Young
Adult Books (Childrens / YA) saw growth in 2016, the
Adult Books
category (which comprises more than 65 % of all revenue for
trade books) saw a 2.3 % decline.
According to the survey, ebooks sales in the
adult trade fiction
category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3 billion.
They are looking for work in the following
categories: graphic fiction and non-fiction, juvenile fiction,
adult trade fiction and non-fiction, how - to, cooking, crafts, and work in translation.
«For
trade publishers, 2014 was a blockbuster year — especially in the Childrens and Young
Adult Books
category; so despite the challenging comps, increased sales in
Adult Books helped the industry post gains in 2015,» said Tina Jordan, Vice President of the Association of American Publishers.
Choose
Trade if the book is for the general
adult market otherwise pick an appropriate
category.
Titles are available in both electronic and
trade paperback formats and book ratings range from young
adult to
adult categories.
Fairly brutal numbers across the board, with only a slight (2.1 %) increase in young
adult hardcover, flat
adult trade paper sales, and decreases in the other
categories, including a dramatic 54.3 % decrease in mass - market paperback sales.
E-books, which have roughly doubled or tripled in sales each of the past several years, not only blew past mass - market paperback sales, not only passed
adult hardcover sales, but have now overtaken
adult trade paperback sales to become the largest single
category of book sales in February.