May 20 2008
Hastings Entertainment’s sale of books has increased 5.6% in the last quarter, bettering the increases in movies and music sales. The problem for publishers is part of the increase is due to the rise in used book sales. Hastings said sales of new trade paperbacks, including Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth, as well as higher sales(…)
May 8 2008
HarperCollins is experimenting with a no return policy. According to the GalleyCat article yesterday, 31% of books printed are returned to the publishers. Removing the right of return would reduce environmental waste. However, no returns will likely result in fewer books ordered by the chain stores. Independents might eliminate ordering books with no returns altogether.(…)
May 8 2008
Borders, who financially might be on its last legs, is not going down without a fight. It opened a new store a few weeks ago and is now launching a new Latina book club (does the Latina instead Latino mean that the book club is just for women?) Does this mean that there will be(…)
Apr 28 2008
I haven’t done a good job of posting these figures recently, but net book sales for the year are up 6.2% in 2008 and 4.8% in February alone. Given that we are either in a recession or on the cusp, I would think any amount of increase is positive. Adult paperback is seeing the largest(…)
Mar 21 2008
Business Week reports that ebook sales are up 59% in 2007 as compared to sales in 2006. I suspect some of this is due to the increasing availability of mainstream books in “e” form. I believe that all major publishers put out their romance books in ebook form except Dorchester (although I have heard some(…)
Feb 5 2008
As reported by Publishers Marketplace A Better Quarter for Harper HarperCollins rebounded in their fiscal second quarter after a “terrible” first quarter, with sales rising 3 percent compared to a year ago to $406 million and income of $67 million–up $13 million from the same time last year, though that was the quarter in which(…)
Feb 4 2008
From Publishers Weekly: The Publishers Weekly Stock Index managed to eke out a 1.7% increase last year, thanks largely to Amazon.com. Shares soared nearly 135% while the stock fortunes of traditional book stores fared much worse, particularly Borders Group, which lost half of it’s value in 2007. Even bookstore leader Barnes & Noble couldn’t escape(…)
Jan 29 2008
It’s books, not gadgets, that is the top selling product online across the world. According to a new Nielsen report, 41% of internet users worldwide (48 countries) and 38% of US internet users (estimated 57.5 million) buy books online. Nielsen expects this number to grow. Foner Books sales statistics show that 2007 sales numbers(…)
Dec 20 2007
Now through December 31, at Fictionwise, every MultiFormat eBook is discounted 20% and every Secure eBook receives a 20% Micropay rebate. A multiformat book is one that is sold without DRM and a Secure book (usually from a NY Publisher) has DRM. Happy ebook shopping folks. Send to Kindle
Dec 20 2007
Publishers Weekly (and every other book rag including mine now) reported that the bookstore sales for October were up again rising 8.0% to $1.10 billion in sales. Not too shabby. This is the fourth month of increased book sales. Great news because surely the October sales can't be attributed to Harry Potter can they? Send(…)
Dec 7 2007
In the fall of 2007, USA Today had an article declaring that Manga was dying. Despite that Tor has signed a joint venture with Seven seas Entertainment to produce and distribute original manga titles and compete for the licenses of top Japanese Manga. Total sales for Manga is up by 10% to “more than $220(…)
Nov 14 2007
According to the Business of Consumer Publishing 2006, the net revenue from retail sources in the U.S. accounted for $6.31 billion in 2006. Romance sales accounted for $1.37 billion or 21% of the overall sales just behind religious/inspirational sales which accounted for $1.68 billion. According to the Assocation of American Publishers, religious/inspirational sales includes the(…)
Sep 12 2007
This article tickled my fancy. Apparently, the Church of England approved the sale of hundreds of old Bibles and manuscripts to John Thornton, a small bookshop owner in Chelsea, West London for 36,000 pounds. Thornton, in turn, resold the religious collection for more than 500,000 pounds and plans to retire to the country with his(…)
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