Book sales for the month of September increased 5.7%, based on data
released by the Association of American Publishers, which also reported
that sales for the year to date rose 9.9%.
Stronger categories:
Stronger categories:
- Audiobooks were up 36.5% (with sales of $22.5 million).
- E-books rose 27.7% ($2.9 million).
- Adult hardcovers gained 23.6% ($246.5 million).
- Higher education rose 17% ($270.7 million).
- Children's/YA paperbacks increased 8.7% ($58.1 million).
- University press hardcovers were up 7.5% ($6.6 million).
- Religious books increased 1.6% ($83.1 million).
- El-Hi, basal and supplemental K-12 increased 0.6% ($381.2 million).
Weaker categories:
- University press paperbacks declined 6% ($6.1 million).
- Professional and Scholarly decreased 6.3% ($55.2 million)
- Adult mass market dropped 7.5% ($71.6 million)
- Adult paperback sales were down by 10.7% ($148.1 million).
- Children's/YA hardcovers fell 12.8% ($87.1 million).