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NEWS FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PRINT BOOK SALES ROSE AGAIN IN 2016
January 9, 2017. Despite a less-than-ideal environment— no breakout bestsellers on the adult fiction side and a lengthy, brutal election cycle that sucked nearly all of the air out of the cultural conversation— unit sales of print books were up 3.3 % in 2016 over 2015. Total print unit sales hit 674 million, marking the third-straight year of growth, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 80 % of print sales in the U. S.
Most print formats had an outstanding year, with hardcover up 5.4 %, trade paperback up 4 %, and board books up 7.4 %. Mass market has been on the wane since the introduction of e-books, and its slide continued in 2016 with a 7.7 % drop in unit sales. Physical audio, where sales were down 13.5 % on the year, also took a big hit from digital.
The largest gains came in the adult nonfiction category, where sales were up 6.9 % from 2015. Several subcategories posted substantial increases, among them crafts and hobbies, where the adult coloring book boom— though slowing down from 2015’ s blitz— continues to have a large impact. The religion and self-help areas also saw boosts, though for different reasons. Several big-name religion authors published new titles last year and racked up six-figure sales( Pope Francis, Lysa Terkeurst, Sarah Young), whereas backlist powered the self-help category: of the top five self-help titles, only one, Angela Duckworth’ s Grit, was published in 2016.
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NEWS FROM WRITER BEWARE
The Writer Beware website has been a standard in rating publishers, agents, etc. for many years. This is particularly important for“ newbies” to the writing and publishing industry to pay attention to, as you might not know about this site. Before signing with agents or publishers, you should check them on this website.
Their warning about Tate Publishing spells out a great big yellow caution light. This company is a vanity publishing company that creates the illusion of being a traditional publisher.
TROUBLE AT TATE— COULD IT BE THE END OF DAYS? By Victoria Strauss. Updated Dec. 9,2016. It ' s hard times lately for " America ' s Top Publisher," a. k. a. Tate Publishing & Enterprises, a. k. a. one of America ' s most prolific vanity publishers. Tate has been on Writer Beware ' s Thumbs Down Publishers List since the list
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