In January, book sales rose 3.6% to $785 million, as reported by 81 publishers to the Association of American Publishers.
Highlights by category:
- E-books soared 173.6% to $8.8 million
- Children's/YA hardcovers rose 60% to $54.4 million.
- Higher education rose 29% to $340.8 million.
- Children's/YA paperbacks climbed 9.3% to $37.4 million.
- Professional and scholarly books rose 2.1% to $48.7 million.
- University press paperbacks dipped 1% to $9.9 million.
- University press hardcovers slipped 8.3% to $6.2 million.
- Religious books fell 9% to $46.5 million.
- Adult mass markets fell 12% to $56.4 million.
- El-Hi fell 22.8% to $57.8 million.
- Adult paperbacks dropped 24.7% to $102 million.
- Adult hardcovers fell 33.9% to $60.5 million.
- Audiobooks fell 45.9% to $7.7 million