Jun 11 2009

Digital Published Books Increasing While Most Categories Falter

According to the book sales monitored by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), domestic sales are down 4.1% for the year but up 3.3% from last April for a total of $494.9 million.

Down

  • Adult Hardcover $95.7 million (-11.0%) – YTD decline 16.2%
  • Adult Paperback $114.8 (-0.8%) – YTD decline 25.7%
  • Adult Massmarket $51.0 (-4.0%) – YTD decline 10.2%
  • Audio Book $9.5 million (-32.9%) – YTD decline 43.6%
  • Religious Books $38.7 (-7.1%) – YTD decline 9.1%
  • University Press Hardcover $5.0 million (-6.3%) – YTD decline 7.5%
  • University Press Paperback $2.3 million (-12.4%) – YTD decline 7.8% El-Hi (elementary/high school) basal and supplemental K-12 category $154.8 million (-23.4%) – YTD decline 16.4%

Up

  • E-books $12.1 (+228.3%) – YTD increase 154.8%. March sales were the first time that ebooks were a larger share of the market than audiobooks and this was reflected in April stats as well.
  • Children’s/YA Hardcover $44.6 (+13.6%) – YTD increase 35.9%
  • Children’s/YA Paperback $39.9 million (+0.9%) – YTD increase 2.0%
  • Professional and Scholarly $46.3 million (+1.1%) – YTD decrease 8.9 %
  • Higher Education $33.5 million (312.4%) – YTD increase 42.4%

Related posts:

  1. Net Book Sales in February Up Despite Depressed Economy
  2. Book Sales Are on the Rise
  3. May Book Sales Incrementally Down YTD
  4. Book Sale Trends
  5. October Book Sales Were Up but Overall Numbers Are Down

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