August Bookstore Sales Are Up

The U.S. Census Bureau statistics are out for August bookstore sales with sales up 9.3% to 2.286 billion. estimates that those sales are still feeling the Potter effects since the “adult hardcover sales were down 21.3 percent for the month, bringing in $93.1 million, but the children’s/YA hardcovers were up 58.6 percent, with sales of $105.9 million.”

Via Publisher’s Weekly.

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