The top line offered in press material is that in 2017, the US book publishing industry generated an estimated $26.23 billion in net revenue for 2017, representing 2.72 billion units.This is not to say that the StatShot Annual report isn’t worthwhile. However, only a small percentage (16%) of the books sold on Amazon come from top five publishing houses. BookScan is a subscriber service run by Nielsen. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for trade and indie authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman. Somehow it takes less attention than reading a book. Amazon Best Sellers Our most popular products based on sales. Online Sales: 43.2 Percent Print, 27 Percent Ebook D ays after the UK’s Publishers Association released its 2017 “Yearbook” report on the British book publishing industry, the organization’s Stateside counterpart, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), released news to the press of its 2018 StatShot Annual Report which covers 2017 US book publishing industry statistics.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. In 2015, there were 92.64 million people reading e-books in the country. Sales of fiction rose by a third, while children's education went up 234% to the third highest level on record. And “since the annual survey does not include all known industry publishers,” press announcements clarify, “estimates are used for publishers who do not participate directly in data collection. Editors and agents are becoming far more critical when acquiring political titles; see more below under nonfiction trends. And if you’re writing … Puzzle books, handicrafts and true crime also saw sharp rises. This makes a big difference because Amazon is a sales leader in the indie publishing industry. During the first quarter of 2019, political book sales declined 28 percent compared to last year, according to NPD Bookscan. The genre which has experienced the most significant sales growth in the last few years is the romantic comedy genre, which has recorded sales growth of 357 percent.Audiobooks, which first gained popularity in the consumer market in the cassette tape and CD era, are back in the digital media era. Since 2013, or in the past five years, publisher-reported revenue for trade books has increased by some $820 million.The StatShot Annual Report is put together by a different process than the Association of American Publishers’ monthly surveys, and “survey participants in StatShot Annual may not be the same as those who participate in AAP’s monthly surveys,” per explanatory notes from the association.“Within online retail channels, 43.2 percent were print formats, 27 percent were ebooks, 16.3 percent were instructional materials, 10.5 percent were downloaded audio, and 3.1 percent were physical audio or a different format.” Keep in mind that the digital revenues reported by publishers can’t include such revenues that are not reported by online retailers.Sign up to get our FREE email edition, Monday to Friday! Sales figures aside, published books are still the preferred format of 65 percent of book readers in the U.S. The number of audiobooks published in the U.S. increased dramatically in the last few years, going from about 7,200 published titles in 2011 to more than 35,500 published titles in 2015. Two adult fiction genres in which print has steadily lost ground to e-books increased unit print sales last year.