Book sales in November rose 10.9%, to $808.5 million, at publishers who reported to the Association of American Publishers.
Sales for the year through November rose 4.9%.
Among categories:
- E-books exploded 199.9%, to $18.3 million.
- Audiobooks jumped 69%, to $18.4 million.
- Adult hardcover rose 26.9%, to $204.4 million.
- Higher education rose 24.2%,, to $197.1 million.
- University press hardcover rose 21.9% to $5.4 million.
- El-Hi basal and supplemental K-12 jumped 18.4%, to $136.9 million.
- University press paperback climbed 2.7%, to $4.2 million.
- Professional and scholarly rose 2.7%, to $57.1 million.
- Children's/YA paperback inched up 1%, to $43.9 million.
- Religious books were flat, at $48.7 million.
- Adult paperback fell 3%, to $92.3 million
- Adult mass market dropped 9.8%, to $53.2 million.
- Children's/YA hardcover fell 13.5%, to $63.9 million.