By PW Staff
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Dec 18, 2020
With gains across all categories, unit sales of print books rose 10.5% in the week ended Dec. 12, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Adult nonfiction unit sales increased 14.5% over the week ended Dec. 17, 2019, as Barack Obama’s
A Promised Land remained the top title, selling nearly 325,000 copies. Two newly released books also contributed to the gains in adult nonfiction:
Bag Man by Rachel Maddow sold more than 46,000 copies, and
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson sold more than 36,000 copies. Adult fiction also had a good week, with sales up 16.3%. Charlie Mackesy’s