As the new Spotify audiobooks service goes live, book industry observers are watching for impact on existing distribution and sales.| Publishing Perspectives
On a year-to-date basis, StatShot respondents showed the overall United States publishing industry down 1.8 percent in May.| Publishing Perspectives
Trade reports from the US, inspirational self-published authors, anti-racism tools, all about romantasy, and Jodi Picoult questions if literature is really dead. Plus, a tribute to Josh Langley.| sarafosterauthor.substack.com
The US book market in 2022 was 2.6 percent below 2021's revenue level, the AAP reports, with total revenues of $28 billion.| Publishing Perspectives
After the mild slide of February's StatShot, the Association of American Publishers' March report sees the trade up 4.4 percent over March 2024.| Publishing Perspectives
In 2024, the AAP StatShot report find that digital audio made up 11.3 percent of trade book formats sold in the United States.| Publishing Perspectives
The American book trade industry's digital audio sector was up 6.1 percent in this year's January StatShot report from the AAP.| Publishing Perspectives
With a recalculation of data back to 2019, the AAP releases its StatShot Annual Report for 2023, with a 0.8-percent decline from 2022.| Publishing Perspectives
In US publishing, AAP StatShot figures show digital audiobooks in October accounted for 15 percent of adult book sales.| Publishing Perspectives
The States' book industry revenues were up 7.3 percent at $13.3 billion, January through November in 2024, per AAP's StatShot.| Publishing Perspectives
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Year-to-date, the Association of American Publishers' StatShot report for September shows the United States' book industry up 7 percent.| Publishing Perspectives