July Book Sales - AAP Reports

I've been on vacation in Florida doing lots of reading and no posting. I will remedy that over the next few days. In the meantime Shelf Awareness shares the July book sales from the AAP.

Net book sales in July rose 20%, based on data from 82 publishers provided to the Association of American Publishers.Among the strongest categories:

• Children's/YA hardcover (read HP7) rose 504.2% to $255.1 million.
• Audiobook sales jumped 240.8% to $32.1 million.
• E-books rose 31.8% to $2.8 million
• Adult hardcover gained 28.6% to $73.4 million.
• University press hardcover rose 19.7% to $6.9 million.
• Professional and scholarly rose 13.8% to $107.6 million.
• University press paperbacks rose 10.8% to $9.5 million.
• Higher education rose 5.5% to $923.2 million.
• El-hi, basal and supplemental K-12 rose 2.1% to $921 million. Weaker categories:
• Religious books were off 2.6% to $33.5 million.
• Adult paperback fell 6.5% to $102.4 million.
• Adult mass market fell 24.7% to $62.9 million.
• Children's/YA paperback dropped 25.7% to $36.9 million.