Publishers Weekly has the key numbers from the Association of American Publishers' March report. Here's a summary:
- Sales in all print segments except children's fell in March.
- The
Children's/Young Adult segment rose 46.6%; eBook sales in the segment rose 173.9%.
- Sales of adult eBooks rose 33.2%.
- Sales of adult trade print books fell 11.6%.
For all of Q1 2012:
- Adult eBook sales rose 28.1%; adult hardcover sales were up 2%, while
adult trade paperback sales declined 10.5%.
- Mass market paperback sales
declined 20.8%..
- Children's/YA sales rose 63.6%
- University press sales rose 3.6%.
- Religious sales dropped 1.8%
- Professional sales were down 2.6%.
- K-12 instructional materials declined 13.4%.
- Higher education course materials dropped 0.3%.
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