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In round two of the battle of autumn 2024 fiction heavyweights, Richard Osman's We Solve Murders regained its number one spot after being knocked to the mat in the previous [...]

With sales surging thanks to the film adaptation of It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover chalked up the gold, silver and bronze positions in the charts, the first time an [...]

'Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?' The late great, Freddie Mercury's opener on 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has been applicable to the charts of late, as a huge injection has [...]

Led by Manga superstars Gege Akutami, Eiichiro Oda and the late, great Kentaro Miura, the UK comics market has continued its sizzling form and is on course for a third-best [...]

Driven by BookTok, the surging subscription-box model and small and big-screen adaptations, Young Adult Fiction is poised to notch its biggest year in nearly a decade and a half. Thus [...]

For some time, a large part of UK education publishers' revenues has been generated from digital products. For example, one of the reasons Collins won the 2024 British Book Award [...]

Literary fiction, cult novels and prize picks have been big winners at independent bookshops' tills this year, with non-fiction barely getting a look-in. That indies shade towards the literary will [...]

As with the print charts, Colleen Hoover was the headline act in Bookstat. The film adaptation-fuelled It Ends with Us easily romped to number one, with its sequel It Starts [...]

Julia Donaldson is on course to claim an unprecedented fifth straight year as the UK's bestselling author, as she easily topped the writers' league table at 2024's halfway mark-and in [...]

E-book sales for the UK's biggest trade publishers collectively rose slightly (0.8%) year on year, but the 43-6 million units sold in 2023 still represents the second-lowest total the Big [...]

Sound the trumpets: led by standout years from Fiction and Children's, 2021 was the biggest in value terms for the British book trade since accurate records began. Maybe. Yes, there [...]

Powered by a strong fiction market and a memoir from a prince of the realm, 2023 was the best-ever first half of a year since accurate records began, with 776.6m [...]

After the disruptions of Covid, retail sales in the education sector are rebounding, with revenue through Nielsen BookScan's School Textbooks & Study Guides (ST&SG) category hitting 47.2m [pounds sterling] in [...]

Though Harlan Coben's I Will Find You claimed the number one spot for a second consecutive week in the Publisher E-book Ranking-and Nita Prose's long-running staple The Maid was second-newcomers [...]

E-book sales for the Big Six publishers slipped to their lowest level in five years as digital continued to contract from its pandemic record amid a still-surging print book market. [...]

Measuring publisher performance with a complete 52-week deck of a Nielsen BookScan year for the first time since 2019 shows how fruitful the pandemic and the immediate post-pandemic era has [...]

Although the overall British books market declined by a relatively slim 1.4% against 2021's comparable figures, BookScan's direction of travel was more down than up across categories. Just 31 sub-genres [...]

Driven by a strong fiction market and a record haul in children's, the first half of 2022 has notched up the biggest ever January to June run since accurate records [...]

Sales through the tills of books aimed at school leaders and teachers' development are on course for by far a record year, almost assuredly a direct response to the strains [...]

For the third time in five years, Pan Macmillan has been the standout performer among Britain's Big Four publishers at the half-way mark, this time doing it in record style. [...]

THE 2010'S HAVE been challenging for HarperCollins in the Nielsen BookScan stakes. This is not unusual for a publisher as, until the past couple of years, there have been declining [...]

Driven by the surge of Manga, over 1 [pounds sterling] in every 10 [pounds sterling] spent on a fiction title in the past year in the UK was used to [...]

GUESS WHO'S BACK? Jamie freakin' Oliver, that's who. The biggestselling non-fiction author through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, at 163m [pounds sterling]--and second overall to the mighty J K Rowling--has [...]

In what may prove to be one of the most significant shake-ups to the children's sector in decades, the picture books market has outsold fiction aimed at older readers for [...]

Julia Donaldson has extended her seemingly unstoppable record-setting run of earning eight figures through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. The 14.1m [pounds sterling] that the Gruffalo co-creator chalked up in [...]

ON 10TH JANUARY this year, the Office of National Statistics released some surprising figures: the gap between the median income of the richest and poorest families in the UK narrowed [...]

In an unpredictable and somewhat paradoxical print performance in 2015, the trio of publishing behemoths all posted respectable growth; yet the 'Big Three' collectively claimed their second-lowest share of the [...]

This is the third of our current tranche of Reviews of the Year, and if you have been paying attention thus far you will know the trade had a tremendous [...]

There has been a lot of talk lately about author earnings, with the Society of Authors' (SOA) recent open letter to publishers calling for contract reform the latest blast in [...]

The Guest of Honour duties at this year's fair will be undertaken by France, with its programme to have a keen focus on French authors across the globe. With this [...]

STRONG AND STABLE was, of course, Theresa May's rallying cry for her general election campaign, and the words that shall be etched on her political tombstone when her premiership inevitably [...]

Who needs full-year book sales data? Not Julia Donaldson, that's for sure, as The Gruffalo co-creator earned almost film through Nielsen BookScan's truncated 36 weeks of Total Consumer Market figures [...]

Penguin Random House leads the table, Hachette gains, but major players decline in market share. Tom Tivnan and Philip stone look at publishers' peformances in 2013 For the foreseeable future, [...]

WITH HER FIFTY Shades trilogy, E L James is the biggest thing in publishing since J K Rowling and Dan Brown, having completely reinvigorated the erotica market--both in digital and [...]

In our Review of the Half Year 2019, there was a rash prediction in these pages that, given Pan Macmillan's Pinch of Worn-fuelled first six months of the year, it [...]

As the ongoing trade war between the United States and China rumbled on early this year, some interesting book industry statistics were coming out of the People's Republic. In January, [...]

Difficult. A rough ride. Harder than ever. Prepared for the worst. Cautiously optimistic. Those are the buzz words and phrases bandied about by credit-crunched and recession-hit publishers as they look [...]

Last week two books--Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Puffin) and Michael Rosen's We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Walker)--achieved a unique feat, notching up their 1,000th week in BookScan's [...]

'I believe the children are our future/ Teach them well and let them lead the way,' the late, great Whitney Houston once sang. It is a sentiment that is undoubtedly [...]

The line graph of Cicerone Press' sales over the past few years shows a steep upward trajectory, resembling some of the more imposing cliff faces one often finds in its [...]

Black & White Publishing enters its third decade on the back of a superb, near-record set of results, spurred by strong sales of rugby player Doddie Weir's memoir. Its co-founders [...]

An observer of the Kindle charts over the past few years will have noticed that there is one UK independent publisher consistently competing toe to toe with conglomerates and Amazon's [...]

There are many points of difference between China's books market and that of the UK and US, but one of the starkest is digital growth. Digital, or at the very [...]

Two of the best three performers in the top 10 of the Publisher Top 20 league table for the first half of 2018 will come as no surprise. Even the [...]

The Irish non-fiction market is in fine fettle. In 2017, Nielsen BookScan's Irish Consumer Market Adult Non-Fiction: Trade category shifted 51.6 m [euro], up a modest 2% year on year, [...]

At the tail end of last year, Office of National Statistics data was released showing Wales had the fastest-growing economy of the UK's home nations. It wasn't spectacular--the overall boost [...]

After last year's E L James bonanza, the forecast for this summer is as uncertain for bookshops as it is for the British weather. Tom Tivnan looks at past summer [...]

The pace of change is perhaps the biggest culture shift in the digital age. Not just because the technology moves on so quickly, with new. supposedly 'game changing' devices or [...]

It is perhaps apropos that one of the top five bestselling books thus far this year is Kate Atkinson's When Will There be Good News? (Black Swan). That is something [...]

Author-illustrator duo claim nine of top 50 titles of 2017 in a year of growth propelled mostly by strength in depth Tom Tivnan reports The last year has been a [...]