Book publishing is a business of high stakes gambles—and trade book publishers continue to make the right bets.Helped by blockbuster titles Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games, the industry posted net revenue of $7.1 billion in 2012, up 6.2% from the prior year, according to the Association of American Publishers' StatShot report, which the trade group released Thursday.E-books remain the fastest growing format, with sales up 33.2% for the year to $1.25 billion, which put the digital format in shooting distance of hardcover books, whose sales fell 6.7% to $1.38 billion. Trade paperbacks—the larger-style paperback favored by bookstores—were the best selling format at $1.49 billion, up 6.2%.Mass market paperbacks, generally sold in drugstores, remained the weakest category, slipping 12.4% to $404 million.The healthy numbers for 2012 were achieved despite a weak December, in which hardcover sales fell 19.4%, trade paperbacks dipped 12.7%, and the ebook sales juggernaut appeared to be finally slowing down, gaining just 19.5%.The Association of American Publishers' StatShot numbers are drawn from approximately 1,200 publishers. Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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A controversial account of the US Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster say they will pay consumers to settle claims they conspired to fix ebook prices. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The "spectacular" publishing success of the Fifty Shades trilogy has driven record half... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Fifty Shades of Grey's reign as the bestselling book in the UK has come to an end for now,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Children's author G P Taylor has added his voice to criticism of the Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Orion title The Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight has toppled Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has been knocked from the top of the Amazon Kindle store by an e... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The US book business is starting to reap the benefit of strong sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Music label EMI Classics is set to release a collection of music inspired by bestselling erotica... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It turns out the Fifty Shades craze is not restricted to the U.S. On all three charts tracked this month, E.L. James’s blockbuster book placed high on the list. In Spain and Italy, where Fifty Shades of Grey debuted in June, it landed at #1 and #2, respectively. In the Netherlands, the book... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Fifty Shades of Grey has surpassed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sales of the Fifty Shades trilogy have passed 19m in the US since publication in March. ... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booksellers, get out your handcuffs: Roughly one in five physical books sold in the U.S. over most of the spring were the ¿Fifty Shades¿ sex trilogy. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Random House has reprinted its record-busting Fifty Shades trilogy a further three times... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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All three books in E L James' Fifty Shades trilogy (Arrow) last week surpassed the single... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey (Arrow) has smashed the weekly sales record for a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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For a fourth consecutive week, the three books in E L James' Fifty Shades trilogy were the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The three novels that comprise E L James’ Fifty Shades trilogy were once again the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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'We do not collect erotica,' says one staff member at a library where the books will not be stocked. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The three novels that comprise E L James' much-discussed Fifty Shades trilogy were the three... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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