{"id":376,"date":"2009-04-02T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/04\/02\/aap-reports-book-sales\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:05:52","slug":"aap-reports-book-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/04\/02\/aap-reports-book-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP Reports Book Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some numbers from the Association of American Publishers from data from major book publishers comparing 2007 to 2008:<\/p>\n<p>Overall sales down 2.8% (to $24.3 billion)<\/p>\n<p>Trade paperbacks up, trade hardcover way down for an overall decline of 5.2% (to $8.1 billion) <\/p>\n<p>Higher education textbooks up 2.7% (to $3.8 billion)<\/p>\n<p>Mass market paperbacks down 3% (to $1.1 billion)<\/p>\n<p>Religious books down 7.6% (to $724 million)<\/p>\n<p>Audio book sales down 21% ($172 million)<\/p>\n<p>eBooks up 68.4% (to $113 million)<\/p>\n<p>So, while eBooks are doing well they still represent only a small fraction of total book sales.<\/p>\n<p>Story and link to data here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishers.org\/main\/IndustryStats\/IndStats\/2008\/2008_Stats.htm\">http:\/\/www.publishers.org\/main\/IndustryStats\/IndStats\/2008\/2008_Stats.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=f85bc95e-85a3-8548-b8c9-e31044c59fe0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some numbers from the Association of American Publishers from data from major book publishers comparing 2007 to 2008: Overall sales down 2.8% (to $24.3 billion) Trade paperbacks up, trade hardcover way down for an overall decline of 5.2% (to $8.1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2009\/04\/02\/aap-reports-book-sales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}