Sentences with phrase «total book sales rose»

According to Britain's Publisher's Association, total book sales rose 4 % last fiscal year, and while print still makes up the majority of sales, its small 1 % sales slip was more than made up for by a 66 % gain in the digital realm.

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Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

Meanwhile, physical book sales went up and have continued their rise through the Nielsen - measured Total Consumer Market in 2016.

Last year, according to data published by the Publishers Association, sales of physical books fell 5 % to # 2.7 billion, while e-book sales rose 11 % to just # 563 million with digital revenues growing to 35 % of the overall total.

However, despite the rise in total sales, by genre the numbers were higher than last year for both business and technology books, but had a noticeable drop in sales for cookbooks and travel books in digital format.

So it's clear that e-books are a fast growing market, but adult hardcover books were also on the rise in May and grew by 43.2 percent for a total of $ 138.5 million in sales.