Deep declines in adult nonfiction and juvenile categories and only a small gain in adult fiction resulted in a 9.6% drop in print sales last week compared to a year ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
A 7% decline in fourth quarter revenue led to a 0.6% drop in sales for the full year at Simon & Schuster. The publisher still posted a 6% increase in operating profits over 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2018 sales decline was mainly due to a 13.6% drop in sales in the K-12 instructional materials segment. The two main consumer categories had gains with adult book sales up 4.2% and children’s/young adult sales inching up 0.3% over the first half of 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The lack of a mega-bestseller was one factor in the 9.6% drop in revenue at Penguin Random House in 2016; earnings in the year fell 3.6% compared to 2015. Operating margins, however, improved to 16.0% in 2016, up from 15.0% in 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers’ sales in the US fell 5.6% year-on-year to $3bn in the first third of 2015, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The latest monthly AAP StatShot, covering April, put total revenues for publishers down 3.3% for the month compared to April 2014. The figure... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]