Digital Published Books Increasing While Most Categories Falter
11. Jun, 2009 | by Jane |
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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%
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Soooo interesting. Especially in light of Diana Pershing’s latest Letter from the President in RWR.
Gee, do you suppose Diane Pershing knows about this?
ETA: Louisa and I posted at almost the same time. Maybe some nice RWA member could send this to Ms. Pershing.
Thanks for the stats!