Nielsen report: over a third of listeners new to audiobooks
A new report from Nielsen Book Australia has found that 37% of Australian audiobook consumers began listening to audiobooks for the first time in the past year. The report also...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey dominate Australian bestsellers YTD
Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe tops Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020 and more than 500,000...
ABA: Nielsen reports pre-lockdown sales surge, predicts rebound
Book sales in Australia in the week prior to Australia’s first Covid-19 lockdown increased by 35% in volume and 10% in value on the same time in 2019, according to...
Nielsen offers one-off sales reports for ASA members seeking JobKeeper as book market experiences ‘sharp decline’
Nielsen Book will provide free one-off sales reports for Australian Society of Authors (ASA) members seeking evidence of reduced revenue in order to apply for JobKeeper payments. The arrangement is...
S&S, Nielsen withdraw from LEB conference
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and Nielsen Book Australia will not attend this year’s Leading Edge Books (LEB) Conference, which is due to run from 22–24 March in Brisbane. In...
Book sales value down three percent in 2019: Nielsen
After five consecutive years of marginal growth in the Australian book market, book sales fell three percent in value in Australia in 2019, down $36 million to $1.14 billion, according...
SPN conference 2019: ‘Extremely positive’ feedback from delegates
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) eighth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 21–23 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said that 180 tickets were...
UK sales of Booker Prize longlisted titles up nearly 200%
In the UK, the titles longlisted for the Booker Prize sold a combined 4740 copies according to Nielsen BookScan, up 198% on the week before the announcement, reports the Bookseller. Oyinkan...
2019 ABA conference: value, volume down YTD; HR, sales discussed
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2019 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported a 2.6% decline in Australian book...
UK audiobook boom continuing with 13% growth in 2018
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan reports that audiobooks have grown by 13% in volume during 2018. At the London Book Fair (LBF) Quantum Conference, Nielsen said that the audiobook boom...
The books: Locally authored titles supported by strong non-book offering
In 2018, local authors were again well-represented across the nonfiction, fiction and children's categories. Leigh Sales' Any Ordinary Day (Hamish Hamilton) was the most mentioned nonfiction title for Christmas 2018. For...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume remain flat
Value and volume sales showed marginal growth in the lead-up to Christmas, compared to the previous year. Books sold during the four weeks leading up to 29 December 2018 had a...
Book sales up marginally in 2018; five Australian titles in top 10
Book sales grew marginally in Australia in 2018, with like-for-like growth up 1.3% in volume and 1.4% in value on the previous year, according to Nielsen BookScan. This is the...
Nielsen BookScan: Aus fiction popular; ‘similar’ overall sales shape
Australian fiction titles are popular with book buyers this Christmas period, with statistics from Nielsen BookScan showing Australian fiction titles high on the bestsellers chart and an increased market share...
Attendance up at SPN conference 2018, ‘incredibly positive’ response
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) seventh Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 22-24 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said the response to this...
Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ breaks record for first-week sales in Australian nonfiction
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor for Families (HarperCollins) has become the fastest-selling Australian nonfiction title, after selling 74,600 copies with a value of $1.7 million since its release on 24...
The market down under
Australian titles are faring well in a market where personal development books and crime fiction are the standout trends, reports Andrea Hanke. For the fourth year in a row, the...
300 attend 2018 ABA Conference; booksellers ‘surviving and thriving’
Close to 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference and trade show, which was held in Canberra from 17-18 June. This year, the...
2018 ABA conference: value, volume up YTD; branding, staff management discussed
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2018 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported that the total book market is...
SWF 2018: ticket sales down but box office third-highest in festival history; Lee tops bestsellers
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) recorded 51,362 ticketed sales worth over $1.28 million—down on last year's earnings but still the third-highest box office earnings in the organisation’s history. The...