By PW Staff | Feb 19, 2021
For the week ended Feb. 13, 2021, unit sales of print books increased 21.3% over the week ended Feb. 15, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. It was the second consecutive week that unit sales rose by more than 20% over the comparable week last year. The increase was accomplished without the benefit of a big new hit and once again reflected strength across all major categories as well as big gains for backlist titles. The YA categories had the strongest gains, with nonfiction unit sales jumping 71.7% and fiction up 49.3% over 2020. Two anti-racist books
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This Book Is Anti-racist by Tiffany Jewell led the increase in YA nonfiction.
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Sales of Print Books End January on High Note By Jim Milliot | Feb 04, 2021
Unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended January 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The increase marks the third consecutive week unit sales increased by at least 19% compared to 2020. For the month of January, print unit sales were 21.3% higher than January 2020.
As has been the case for most of January, sales were up by double digits in all major categories. The four children’s publishing segments saw the largest gains.
Unit sales of young adult fiction increased by 50.6% over a year ago, and young adult nonfiction sales rose 41.2%. In YA fiction, sales of supernatural/horror rose by 113% over the week ended February 1, 2020.
Book Sales Post Another Big Weekly Gain By Jim Milliot | Jan 28, 2021
Book sales are still up following a hot start to 2021. Last week, unit sales of print books jumped 18% over the week ended January 25, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. In the prior week, unit sales rose nearly 23% over 2020, resulting in a 22% increase in print sales through January 23 over the comparable period a year ago.
Every major category had double digit increases last week. Those jumps were led by the young adult segments, where fiction rose 46.9% and nonfiction increased 48.5%. The top seller in fiction was We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, which sold nearly 15,000 copies, while
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