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March 22, 2016 by Gary Price

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports Trade Sales up in November 2015, eBooks Remain Down

March 22, 2016 by Gary Price

From a New Association of American Publishers (AAP) Announcement:

Publishers’ book sales for trade (consumer) books from Jan. to Nov. were up 1.2% to $6.6 billion compared to $6.5 billion in 2014.
2016-03-22_10-23-16Overall publisher revenue for the 11-month period was $13.9 billion, down 2.6% from the previous year. These numbers include sales for all tracked categories (Trade – fiction/non-fiction/religious, PreK-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses). Publisher net revenue is tracked monthly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and includes sales data from more than 1,200 publishers.
Trade
Publisher sales of trade books in Nov. were up 9.1% compared to Nov. 2014. The majority of the growth came from Adult Books, which were up 9.5% compared to Nov. 2014 and 3.1% year-to-date. While Childrens /YA Books had a good Nov., and were up 7.9% compared to Nov. 2014, the year-to-date figure still shows a decline of 3.8%.
Religious Presses have had several consecutive good months of sales, and Nov. continued the trend with 10.2% growth compared to Nov. 2014. The category is now up slightly at 0.9% for the year.
Trade Formats
Downloaded audio and paperback books have grown every month in 2015 vs the same month in 2014. Within Adult Books, the most popular trade category this year, downloaded audio is up 40.3% and paperback is up 16.1%. Across all trade categories these formats are up 37.1% and 13.7%, respectively compared to the 2014 totals.
eBooks remain down 12.7% compared to the same 11 months in 2014. Looking at Adult Books, the decline in eBooks is slightly less pronounced at 7.3% decline for the year vs the same time in 2014.
Though hardback books had a strong 12.0% growth in the Adult Books category this Nov., the slight 1.9% decline in Childrens/YA books and declines from earlier in the year leaves the format down 2.4% year-to-date vs the same 11 months in 2014.
Educational Materials
Revenues for PreK-12 instructional materials were down by 4.4% and Higher Education course materials were down 7.7% through Nov. compared to the same timeframe in 2014.
Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Sales for Professional Publishing, which includes business, medical, law, scientific and technical books and journals, were down 4.7% for the year-to-date. University Presses were down 1.8% year-over-year compared to the same 11 months in 2014.
* NOTE: Figures represent publishers’ net revenue for the U.S. (i.e. what publishers sell to bookstores, direct to consumer, online venues, etc.), and are not retailer/consumer sales figures.

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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