{"id":914,"date":"2018-02-22T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T04:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=914"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T04:51:03","slug":"adult-sales-up-kids-sales-down-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/02\/22\/914\/adult-sales-up-kids-sales-down-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult sales up, kids sales down in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, estimates from the AAP\u2019s StatShot program show that sales of adult trade books increased slightly (0.4%) in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/financial-reporting\/article\/76005-adult-sales-up-kids-down-in-first-nine-months-of-2017.html\">reports\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a>. Sales of children\u2019s and young adult books fell 3.5% in the same nine-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The AAP data showed that sales of adult hardcovers between January-September 2017 were up 7.3% compared to the same period in 2016, but that mass market paperbacks and trade paperbacks fell by 13.2% and 1.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The results also showed that audio sales continued to grow\u2014up 24.2% in the same period\u2014while ebook sales in the January-September period fell by 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p>In the children\u2019s and young adult segment, both hardcover and ebook sales were affected by the sales success of 2016\u2019s\u00a0<em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em>, with hardcover sales declining 8% in the first nine months of 2017, while ebook sales were down 11.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The AAP receives sales figures for 1204 publishers. In the first nine months of 2017, sales for all publishers were down 0.5% compared to the same stretch in the previous year.<\/p>\n<h5><em>This news story first appeared in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/01\/19\/100331\/full-program-announced-for-2018-perth-writers-week\/\">Books+Publishing<\/a><em> on 12 February 2018. <\/em>Books+Publishing <em>is Australia&#8217;s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/subscription\/\">subscribers<\/a> up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, estimates from the AAP\u2019s StatShot program show that sales of adult trade books increased slightly (0.4%) in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016,\u00a0reports\u00a0Publishers Weekly. Sales of children\u2019s and young adult books fell 3.5% in the same nine-month period. The AAP data showed that sales of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international-news","category-newsletter"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}