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April 1, 2019 by Gary Price

Highlights From the BookNet Canada “Canadian Book Market 2018” Report

April 1, 2019 by Gary Price

From BookNet Canada:

The Canadian Book Market 2018 is now ready for purchase! This annual publication reports on sales value, sales volume, and number of ISBNs with print sales in the Canadian trade market in 2018. It also breaks down top-selling titles, pricing, and the share of the total market for more than 50 categories, including Science Fiction, Poetry, Architecture, and others.

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Report Highlights

How many books were sold in 2018 in Canada?In 2018, in the Canadian English-language print trade market, we tracked sales for 867,000 unique ISBNs, which amounted to 54 million books sold at a value of $1.1 billion. This is fairly flat from the year before (when comparing amongst a subset of comparable stores that report consistently to BNC SalesData every year): the value sold in 2018 is down a very slight 0.2% from 2017 and the volume sold is down 1.9%.

Juvenile and YA books accounted for the majority of those sales, 39.4%, while Non-Fiction titles made up 33.5% and Fiction made up 25.5%. The top-selling title was in the Non-Fiction category: Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, was the bestselling book of the year even though it only had seven weeks of sales in 2018. The top-selling book from a Canadian-owned publisher was the cookbook Yum and Yummer by Greta Podleski.

  • The top two Juvenile & YA titles were The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith, illustrated by Katz Cowley and Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey.
  • The top two Non-Fiction titles were Becoming by Michelle Obama and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson.
  • The top two Fiction titles were The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn and The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.

As mentioned above, The Canadian Book Market 2018 is the first edition of this publication to have information for the Canadian French-language trade market. We found that in the French Canadian market, as in the English market, two out of every five print books were Juvenile or YA titles. The top-selling French Juvenile title was L’agent Jean!, an instalment in the L’ADN de l’impossible series.

Notable categories in 2018

  • Fiction unit sales in the Asian American sub-genre grew 384% thanks to Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians and the movie based on the book that was released in theatres in August 2018.
  • The Political Science category saw an 87.5% increase in unit sales between 2017 and 2018, with titles like Fear by Bob Woodward and Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff topping that list.
  • The House & Home category increased 57.9% from 2017 to 2018 thanks to Joanna Gaines (Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave) and Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up).

Source Blog Post (via BookNet Canada)

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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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