Net book sales increase 12.6% according to AAP
By Jane • Apr 25th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News • •Despite fears of a dwindling readership, February book sales were up. Ebooks had the strongest gains, rising 44.7% with sales of 2.5 million. Adult hardcovers followed close behind with sales of $111.9m and Children/YA hardcovers rose 43.4% with sales of $37.4 million. I read a great young adult book yesterday by Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely. It’s sure to add to those numbers in June.
Religious books (and I am not sure if this includes inspirationals) also rose $31.8% to 39.5m. Paperbacks increased only slightly with young adult paperbacks increasing 5.7% (34.1m) and adult paperbacks were up 3.2% (97.6 m)
Losers in the February retail measurement included audiobooks (0.5%) and professional/scholarly books (7.3%).
Via Shelf Awareness.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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