Print Unit Sales Rose 10.5% In Mid-December
By PW Staff | 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...
Source: publishersweekly.com
