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Yesterday Publisher’s Marketplace released a detailed report on Industry books sales collected by BookStats.  Below are the things I thought you would be interested in reading:

Children’s and YA adult books comprised the “fastest-growing category” in 2011. Sales of $2.78 billion were up 12 percent from $2.48 billion in 2010, reflecting in part the boost from the success of The Hunger Games.

eBooks vaulted to the largest-selling format for adult fiction, comprising 31 percent of dollar sales. Adult fiction ebooks went from $585 million in 2010 to $1.27 billion in 2011.

Brick-and-mortar bookstores remain the single largest retail channel, though these sales fell 12.6 percent following the bankruptcy of Borders.

“Trade” Books (with Religion)
2011                                       2010
Overall $13.97 billion   $13.9 billion
Print $11.1 billion
eBooks $2.074 billion  $878 million
Other $796 million

Trade Books (without Religion)
2011                                        2010
Overall $12.517 billion $12.59 billion
eBooks $1.97 billion $838 million

Adult Fiction

Overall: $4.11 billion
eBooks: $1.27 billion
Print books: $2.84 billion
Children’s/YA Books
2011: $2.78 billion
2010: $2.48 billion

All Publishing
Sales
2011: $27.2 billion
2010: $27.9 billion

Channel Breakouts

Brick-and-mortar bookstores: $8.59 billion (-12.6%)
Institutional sales (libraries, schools, business, government, etc.): $5.39 billion
Online retail: $5.04 billion (+35%)
Wholesale/jobbers: $5.04 billion
Direct-to-consumer: $1.11 billion

A full report and/or a complete electronic dashboard, can be purchased from the BookStats site www.bookstats.org/ for release shortly.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

Children’s books sales outperformed the rest of the market in the first half of 2011, down just 1% year on year to £143m, due to blockbusting brands and the delay in children adopting digital content in this area.

According to Nielsen BookScan figures presented at yesterday’s Bookseller Children’s Conference, the total consumer market was down 3.5% year on year to 16th July. Across the entire TCM, fiction sales were down by 7% to £210m, with non-fiction sales down by 2% to £376m.

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