Wedding fever blights April bounce

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Thu, 05/05/2011 - 15:46 Physical book sales in the month of April were the lowest in six years, due largely to a terrible seven days for booksellers in the week of the Royal Wedding. Printed book sales over the four weeks to 30th April period totalled £94.3m, down 9% (£9m) month-on-month and down 4% (£3.9m) on April last year. Volume sales over the period fell by 9% (1.3m) against March, and were down 5% (0.7m) on 2010. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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