Pups, vampires and a president: The bestselling books of 2020
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Local authors accounted for eight of the 10 bestselling books in Australia last year, with the irrepressible blue heeler, Bluey, the subject of three of them. The canine hero of the ABC TV series, created by Ludo Studios in Brisbane, had seven books in the overall top 20, with combined sales exceeding 910,000 copies.
Despite the emergence of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns that forced many bricks and mortar bookshops to shift to online sales and offer click-and-collect or home delivery, total book sales jumped by 9 per cent to 66 million in 2020, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys more than 1500 booksellers in Australia. Total value increased by 8 per cent to $1.2 billion.