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.
Not exact matches
Mass market paperback
sales have declined significantly over the years, with loss of non-bookshop
sales outlets, but
hardcover sales have risen dramatically as the price differential has
fallen.
Even if
hardcover sales of Room
fell short of this and constituted only 20 percent of Amazon's combined, this would mean that total Amazon
sales of Room constitutes about 50 percent of the total
sale in all formats for ROOM.
Even if
hardcover sales of Room
fell short of this and constituted only 20 percent of Amazon's combined, this would mean that total Amazon
sales of Room constitutes about 50 percent of the title's total
sales in all formats.
Hardcover and paperback
sales were essentially flat while mass market
sales fell.
April
sales in the children's / young adult category
fell 12.6 % with ebook
sales plunging 51.6 % in the month and
hardcover sales off 12.1 %.
The publishing sky isn't
falling, despite the gnashing of teeth and beating of chests by some in publishing after figures showed e-books
sales outpacing
hardcover sales.
Written by Sue Johnson, published in 2008, the book remains in
hardcover in the U.S. and Canada because it has yet to
fall below the minimum
sales level required to trigger issuing a paperback edition.