Book Sales Are on the Rise
By Jane • Aug 6th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News • •According to figures from the Association of American Publishers, book sales in June rose 4.3% to $720.6 million and 7.9% year to date.
Increases
- Audiobook: 25.9% to $12.9 million
- E-books: 13.5% to $2.7 million
- Children’s/YA hardcover up 22.2% to $42.3 million
- Children’s/YA paperback: 7.1% to $38.4 million
- Religious books: 19.4% to $37.3 million
- Adult hardcover: 11.1% to $106.9 million
- Adult paperback: 0.3% to $107.4 million (I assume that this is trade paperbacks)
Decreases
- Adult mass market: 4.6% to $71 million
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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