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Press Release: Barnes & Noble Reports Fiscal 2016 Results; Store Sales Are Flat
June 23, 2016 at 2:03 pm

NEW YORK — June 22, 2016 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today reported sales and earnings for its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter and full-year ended April 30, 2016. Retail sales, which include Barnes & Noble stores and BN.com, were $850 million for the quarter and $4.0 billion for the full year, decreasing 2.2%…

Press Release: Wiley Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results
June 15, 2016 at 2:45 pm

HOBOKEN, N.J. — June 14, 2016 — John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) has reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 results. Full year revenue and EPS results match guidance for flat revenue and EPS excluding the transitional (non-cash) impact of shifting to time-based journal subscriptions, foreign exchange, and certain charges and…

Latest from Author Earnings: Bigger Data Set, More Profitable Authors
June 6, 2016 at 1:54 pm

Calling their latest Author Earnings report “definitive” might seem risky. After all, Data Guy and Hugh Howey’s quarterly reports will always change, with new data. If we ever get the “final answer” that Merriam-Webster calls “definitive,” it will mean that All Literature has become backlist—much of it heavenly, some of it hellish. Charon and I will come…

Big Publishing Is Not as Big Anymore
May 24, 2016 at 1:58 pm

According to Publisher’s Weekly, a report by the Association of American Publishers’ shows that overall publishing industry sales fell by 2.6% last year when compared to figures from 2014. Now that we have a clearer picture of the industry’s struggles in 2015, we can tell that sales declined in five of the seven major markets.…

Harry Potter Magic Helps Conjure up Profit Rise at Bloomsbury
May 20, 2016 at 1:28 pm

Harry Potter is still working his magic for the publisher Bloomsbury after nearly 20 years, with sales more than doubling over the past year thanks to a new illustrated version of the first book in the series. Sales of the enduringly popular books by JK Rowling jumped by 133% in the 12 months to 29…

With Print Book Sales Stabilized, Return Rate Lowers
May 10, 2016 at 12:40 pm

Before the sales of ebooks exploded in 2010 and 2011, lowering the rate of book returns was one of the major issues that publishers, distributors, and booksellers grappled with on a regular basis. But as the surge in e-book sales called into question the future of print books, the topic of returns was put on…

Translated Fiction Sells Better in the UK than English Fiction, Research Finds
May 10, 2016 at 10:19 am

Translated literary fiction is selling better on average in the UK than literary fiction originally written in English, according to new research, with authors including Elena Ferrante, Haruki Murakami and Karl Ove Knausgaard driving a boom in sales. Though fiction in translation accounts for just 3.5%…

Sales, Earnings Drop at HarperCollins
May 6, 2016 at 2:25 pm

HarperCollins has had a difficult time replacing the megahits American Sniper and the Divergent series since its current fiscal year started last July. That trend continued into the quarter ended March 31, the third period of HC’s fiscal 2016. According to results released by parent company News Corp, revenue in the quarter fell 11%, to…

Team Publishing Startup Booktrope to Shut Down, Citing Revenue Shortfall
May 2, 2016 at 12:20 pm

Booktrope plans to go out of business at the end of May, bringing an end to its “team publishing” platform used by ad hoc groups of authors, editors, marketers and designers to create and market print books and ebooks. The Seattle startup, which went through the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program, announced the news Friday…

AAP StatShot: Overall Book Sales Fell 2.6% in 2015, Trade Sales up Slightly
April 26, 2016 at 3:10 pm

Washington, DC; April 26, 2016 – Publishers’ book sales for trade (consumer) books from Jan. to Dec. were up 0.8% to $7.2 billion compared to $7.1 billion in 2014. Despite a slow holiday season, the year ended slightly up, with a shift in sales for format and category. Overall publisher revenue for 2015 was $15.4…