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.
Even
adult trade paperback sales are looking vulnerable, at $ 83.6 M (although they're probably safe until next January).
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.
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 telling us.
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.
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 %).
Random House Mondadori's divisions publish
adult and children's fiction and nonfiction in print hardcover,
trade, mass market
paperback, and ebook formats, with such imprints as Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Debate, Sudamericana, Montena, Beascoa, and Rosa dels vents, among others.
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.
Flying Pen Press publishes fiction and nonfiction in a wide variety of genres and topics, primarily in
trade paperback and ebook formats (currently, Flying Pen Press does not publish any of the following: poetry, erotica, children's, young
adult, Chr...
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 %.
Hyperion, founded in 1991, publishes general - interest fiction and non-fiction hardcover,
trade, and mass - market
paperback books for
adults and includes the Voice, ABC Daytime Press, Hyperion East, and Miramax imprints.
Titles are available in both electronic and
trade paperback formats and book ratings range from young
adult to
adult categories.
Through August they are the second - largest format for
adult books, only marginally behind
trade paperbacks, and could still end the year as the biggest - grossing
adult format.
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.
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.
Random House Mondadori's divisions publish
adult and children's fiction and nonfiction in print hardcover,
trade and mass market
paperback, and e-book formats with such imprints as Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Debate, Sudamericana, Montena, Beascoa y Rosa dels vents, among others.
In comparison to print, e-books were the # 3
trade book format this month (they topped all formats back in February), behind
adult hardcover and
trade paperback, but still well over double
adult mass - market
paperback.