Book Sales in March Declined 11%
By Jane • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •While yearly sales are still up 1.3%, book sales in March have declined by 11%. Ebook sales were the biggest increases at 58.9% but still only a fraction of the billion dollar book industry at $4.4 million. Trade paperbacks (6.2%), Children’s YA paperbacks (9.1%) and Children’s YA hardcovers were up (2.4%). The trend of increasing YA sales must account for the huge contracts Showalter and Vincent have recently received for the new Harlequin YA line.
Audiobooks are down 44% to $11 million. In a year or so, I wonder if ebooks and audiobooks will change places. Adult hardcovers have declined 25% and mass market is down 10.9%.
Via ShelfAwareness.
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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