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Leading Edge ConferenceThe Leading Edge Books National Conference will be held this weekend, 6-8 March, in Hobart. Over 80 independent booksellers will be attending, and many publishers and authors wi...
US book sales fall 3%
According to BookSca, unit sales of books in the US outlets it monitrs fell by 3% in 2009.
UK book sales slump
Despite big sales for Dan Brown, overall figures show that UK book market is in decline, down 6.4% week on week and down 3.2% year on year.
UK publishers' sales fall by volume, but price increases lessen effect
UK publishers' sales declined by 9.2% in volume over the same period last year in the first six months of 2009, according to the Publishers Association Sales Monitor (PASM). An increase in prices, par...
US publishers' growth slows to 1%
BISG figures show that the dire economic climate in the US significantly slowed revenue growth in the book market to 1% (US$40.3bn) in 2008 and reduced unit sales by 1.5%.
Bowker consumer study shows that women buy most books and Gen X buy online
A new report on US consumer behaviours from Bowker has shown that:57 percent of book buyers are women, yet women purchase 65 percent of the books sold in the US.Mystery books are the most popular genr...
Audio downloads grow as CD sales fall
While the sale of audiobooks on CD has fallen in the past year, sales of audio downloads are up 4% in the last year in the US
US bookstore sales fall again
US bookstore sales fell 2.6% in April, to US$969 million. Bookstore sales have fallen every month this year and the April decline was slightly higher than the 1.4% drop reported in March. Through the ...
Audiobook sales drop dramatically
As all sectors of the US market bar ebooks decline, audio seems to be hardest hit, with the Association of American Publishers reporting a 47 percent drop in audio revenue this year.
US book sales predicted to dip
Total book sales in the US are projected to dip 0.5% in 2009, to US$35.04 billion, according to the PW/IPR Book Sales Index, a new report co-authored by Publishers Weekly and the Institute for Publish...
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