TitlePage: recommendations, favourites drive seasonal sales

TitlePage’s subscriber engagement figures for December 2025 reflected the importance of word-of-mouth, seasonal habits and the continuing appeal of established favourites, reports the Australian Publishers Association (APA).

The APA-run TitlePage platform provides pricing, availability and metadata information to Australian subscribers. According to the APA, it is used by 2000 book businesses, hosts 1.63 million records and supports more than 5 million annual searches.

Virginia Evans’s The Correspondent (Michael Joseph) was the most searched for, viewed and downloaded title during the month, confirming its earlier success and “demonstrating how book recommendations and organic reader engagement can quietly drive a book to success.”

Media adaptations also played a key role, with Heated Rivalry (Emblaze) surging following the screening of the TV adaptation. “Its author Rachel Reid also emerged as the most searched-for author this month,” said the APA, “underscoring the crossover impact of screen exposure.”

Engagement with practical nonfiction rose, “with titles such as The Little Book of Common Sense Investing [Wiley] seeing renewed interest, likely driven by financial planning and end-of-year goal setting. Interest in manga also increased this month with Jujutsu Kaisen [VIZ Media] artist Gege Akutami ranking among the most searched-for contributors.”

Momentum from November continued for books and authors including Arnott’s: The Cookbook (AWW Cookbooks) and Stephen King. Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them by Susannah Fullerton (Bodleian Library) also made “a repeat appearance as a popular feel-good gift for the holiday season,” reported the APA.

Last year the APA announced upgrades to TitlePage designed to improve access to and use of its data.

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