Christmas sales up 2% by value
While book sales in Australia for the 2024 year overall were down compared to 2023, Christmas sales – those during the four weeks to 28 December 2024 – were up...
Strong Christmas boosts 2023 book sales
While book sales for the year overall were down on 2022 figures, 2023 finished strong, with Christmas sales up overall according to Nielsen BookScan figures. According to Nielsen, Australian sales...
Australian market down 3% in value YTD, adult fiction strong
Nielsen BookScan reports that this year to date (YTD), to the week ending 9 December, the Australian Book Market overall declined (-3%) in value on the same time as a...
‘Heartstopper’, ‘The Secret’ top Christmas charts in Aus, Aotearoa NZ
According to Nielsen BookData, the official Australian BookScan Christmas number one bestseller, Heartstopper Volume 5 (Alice Oseman), sold 12,300 copies in Australia last week, while Australian consumers have bought over...
Nielsen reports consistent Black Friday sales boost
Nielsen BookData has reported a five-year trend of increasing print book sales during the annual Black Friday retail promotion in Australia. Since 2017, volume sales in the Australian book market...
Nielsen: LYBD sales down on last year, up on 2021
Nielsen BookData has reported a decline in book sales during Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) week 2023, compared to the same week last year, although there was a considerable increase...
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
After three consecutive years of growth, the Australian book market flattened out in 2023. In the year to 17 June 2023, Australian book sales totalled $548 million, up 0.6% on...
Nielsen survey: 25 to 34 year olds buy ‘lion’s share of audiobooks’
A pilot report from Nielsen BookData’s ANZ Books & Consumers service has found most audiobooks purchases are by readers in the 25 to 34 age bracket. The report, which highlights...
Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.2% in 2022
Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% in 2022, according to data from Nielsen BookScan, with total sales by value closing in at $1.4 billion for the year, compared to...
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’ Archive
The 11th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held last week, 24–26 November, in a hybrid event taking place at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, the State Library Victoria...
Nielsen: 37% of audiobook consumers new to the format Archive
New research by Nielsen BookData has found 37% of Australian audiobook consumers began listening to audiobooks within the past 12 months. ‘The Australian audiobook market continues to mature, with the...
Nielsen: Manga, romance, sci-fi drive Aus market growth in 2021 Archive
Overall growth in value in the Australian book market—which was up 2.5% in value to $1.3 billion in 2021 compared to 2020—has been driven by adult fiction, and most notably...
SPN conference 2021: ‘stimulating, diverse and accessible’ Archive
The 10th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 25–27 November. The 2021 conference ran entirely online for the second year running, but returned to...
Nielsen: Book sales surge after NSW reopens Archive
Australian book sales for the week ending 16 October 2021 have broken the average BookScan weekly sales record for this time of year over the past decade, in what was...
Nielsen: Indies ‘key to supporting local authors’ Archive
Nielsen BookScan data prepared for the Australian Booksellers Association shows that Australian authors account for over half of the top 50 fiction bestsellers sold through independent bookshops this year to...
Nielsen launches local ebook sales tracking service Archive
Nielsen Book Australia has launched a new ebook sales tracking service. Collecting ebook sales data directly from publishers, PubTrack Digital Australia & New Zealand is, according to Nielsen, ‘the first...
New Zealand market down 0.3% in 2020 Archive
New Zealand’s book sales fell by less than 1% in 2020, despite a sustained hard lockdown for almost five weeks from late March, in which the nation’s booksellers were unable...
Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020 Archive
Sales of books in Australia grew 7.8% in 2020, according to data from Nielsen BookScan, with total sales by value coming in at $1.25 billion for the year, compared to...
Online SPN conference a ‘great success’ Archive
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) ninth Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 26–27 November, with organisers hailing the event a ‘great success’. SPN general manager Tim Coronel told Books+Publishing...
Australia Reads campaign: Nielsen reports sales up almost 5% Archive
Nielsen Book Australia reports that sales of print books are up nearly 5% on the previous year. Territory manager Bianca Whiteley said that, for the year to the week ending...