Adult hardcover sales were down 6.5 % to $ 242.9 M (down 7.7 % year - to - date),
adult paperback sales were down 11.8 % to $ 115 M (no change year - to - date), and adult mass market paperback sales were down 1.1 % to $ 60.2 M (down 14.3 % year - to - date).
Sales of e-books in February tripled over the previous year to $ 90.3 m, the Association of American Publishers reported, exceeding
adult paperback sales of $ 81.2 m.
Not exact matches
Looking at
sales by format, trade
paperbacks — the format that holds
adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain in unit
sales over 2015, which is slightly less than 2015 (5 %).
Early in the week we heard the Borders chain has finally shuffled off its mortal coil, and on Thursday, Publishers Lunch reported book
sales suffered another huge monthly drop — especially for
adult hardcover and mass market
paperbacks.
The biggest sector of the market,
adult paperbacks, saw
sales tumble 7.7 % to $ 115.9 million.
Hardcover
sales in
adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for
adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and
paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.
The AAP is beefing up its monthly reports with data from many more publishers — 1,149 for January 2012 compared to under 100 in past months — and more detailed reporting on specific genres: Children's / young
adult e-book
sales are now broken out and religious book
sales are divided by hardcover,
paperback and e-books.
Ebooks are now THE dominant
sales format for
adult fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than
paperback.
Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing as much detail on breaking down print book
sales (hardcovers, trade
paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book
sales «plunged» in June, with trade
paperback sales down a whopping 64 %,
adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market
paperbacks down 22 %.
February figures showed steeper declines in some print categories, with
adult hardcover
sales falling 43 per cent to $ 46.2 m and mass - market
paperbacks down 41.5 per cent at $ 29.3 m.
Even
adult trade
paperback sales are looking vulnerable, at $ 83.6 M (although they're probably safe until next January).
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.
Even more impressive, e-book
sales not only surpassed, but thoroughly trounced both
adult mass - market
paperback sales ($ 39.0 M) and hardcover
sales ($ 49.1 M) for the first time ever.
Print books made a comeback, totaling $ 96.6 M for
adult trade hardcover
sales, $ 115.9 M for trade
paperbacks, and $ 55.2 M for mass - market
paperbacks.
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.
E-book
sales are up 160.1 % since last year, while
adult trade
paperbacks -LRB--17.9 %),
adult hardcovers -LRB--23.4 %), and
adult mass market
paperbacks -LRB--30.1 %) all suffered double - digit declines from 2010.
The May 2011 e-book
sales stats bring with them the announcement that, so far in 2011, e-books are the # 2 format, behind only
adult trade
paperbacks, and ahead of both
adult hardcovers and
adult mass - market
paperbacks.
One other interesting note: the Publisher's Weekly press release noted that
sales of
adult mass - market
paperbacks «all but died,» coming in at only $ 20.8 M, less than half the figure from the previous year.
Adult trade paperbacks were $ 96.5 M, adult hardcover $ 82.9 M, and adult mass - market $ 33.1 M. (Note that their YTD totals and prior months» sales don't usually add up exactly; I assume they update and adjust prior month totals without tellin
Adult trade
paperbacks were $ 96.5 M,
adult hardcover $ 82.9 M, and adult mass - market $ 33.1 M. (Note that their YTD totals and prior months» sales don't usually add up exactly; I assume they update and adjust prior month totals without tellin
adult hardcover $ 82.9 M, and
adult mass - market $ 33.1 M. (Note that their YTD totals and prior months» sales don't usually add up exactly; I assume they update and adjust prior month totals without tellin
adult mass - market $ 33.1 M. (Note that their YTD totals and prior months»
sales don't usually add up exactly; I assume they update and adjust prior month totals without telling us.
On the other side of the coin,
sales of
paperback books were down 30 % year - over-year, and
sales of
adult hardcover books dropped to $ 49.1 million in January 2011 from $ 55.4 million during January 2010.