A 1.7% increase in sales in the fourth quarter kept the drop at 2.6% for the year, overcoming a 4.1% drop during the first nine months. Smaller than expected losses in sales of books for adults helped to offset plunges in the children’s sector. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
The release of the second season of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on Amazon Prime gave a small boost to the Jenny Han novels that the series is based on last week, but it wasn't enough to stop a 7.1% drop in sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The 1.2% decline was largely driven by a 4.1% drop in sales for hardcovers in the first six months of 2023, according to figures released by the AAP. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
A double-digit increase in adult fiction sales and gains in YA were not enough to offset declines in adult nonfiction and the juvenile categories, leading to a 2.1% drop in unit sales of print books in the week ended Aug. 6, 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-12 04:00:00 UTC ]