Book sales: what was up, down in Sept 2015

Story reposted here originally appeared in the Friday, January 29th shelf-awareness.com.

AAP Sales: September Slips 0.7% In September, total net book sales fell 0.7%, to $1.5 billion, representing sales of 1,205 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the Association of American Publishers. For the first nine months of 2015, total net book sales were down 2%, to $11.9 billion. For the first nine months of the year, adult books were up 2.9% and children's/YA were down 7.4%. Hardcover book sales were down 3.2%; trade paperback was up 16%. E-books overall were down 11.1%, mainly because children's/YA e-books were down 44.8% for the year; trade e-book sales were off 4.8%.