The Rise of The Backlist

The new year hadn't even had a week to catch its breath before the first year-end numbers for 2014 appeared. The definitive numbers-if you can call any numbers "definitive" in traditional publishing-won't show up until late February or early March. But the early numbers reveal quite a bit.

Publishers Weekly spent the first full week of 2015 reporting the numbers, but Publishers Marketplace actually analyzed them. Publishers Marketplace is an online trade journal for the traditional publishing industry. The links I have here may or may not get nonsubscribers to the articles in question.