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  • Religion Book Sales Up 1.2% in October, 7.1% Year-to-Date

    Sales of religious print books remain solid through October, offsetting slow digital sales.

  • Print Book Sales Fell 2.6% in 2023

    A 1.7% increase in sales in the fourth quarter kept the drop at 2.6% for the year, overcoming a 4.1% drop during the first nine months. Smaller than expected losses in sales of books for adults helped to offset plunges in the children’s sector.

  • Trouble with Book Fairs Prompts Scholastic to Lower Financial Forecast for Fiscal 2024

    CEO Peter Warwick attributed lower than expected second quarter results to a “complex” school environment characterized by “growing polarization in U.S. society and politicized schools and school boards.”

  • Publishing Sales Up Just a Smidge Through First Nine Months of 2023

    Publishing stayed roughly flat in the first nine months of 2023, inching up 0.8% at the 1,225 publishers that report to the Association of American Publishers' monthly StatShot program over the comparable period in 2022.

  • B&NE Shows Improvement in Its Second Quarter

    An increase in its First Day Complete sales and lower costs in its second period resulted in a jump in earnings, on flat sales, at Barnes & Noble Education, which operates more than 1,270 college stores.

  • Wiley Second Quarter Marked by Rightsizing Efforts

    As part of its efforts to create a leaner and more profitable company, Wiley began its restructuring plan in the second quarter, which included consolidating some functions and selling assets.

  • Quarto to Go Private, Delist from London Stock Market

    The U.K.-based publisher said a proposed stock market delisting will save money and give it more flexibility to react to business challenges and opportunities. The U.S. is Quarto's largest market.

  • Regnery Publishing Will Stay with Salem Media Group

    Salem Media Group, parent company of Regnery Publishing, has been selling assets in an effort to cut its debt debt load, but a proposed sale of the publisher has been called off.

  • Hachette Book Group, Hachette UK to Move Under United Management Team

    Under what it calls a "new English-language management structure," Hachette Livre has named Hachette UK CEO David Shelley head of both Hachette Book Group and HUK, while current HBG CEO Michael Pietsch will retire as CEO and serve as chairman of the new group.

  • Sales Remain Sluggish for Big Book Publishers

    Three of the Big Five publishers struggled in the first nine months of 2023, according to recent financial results, as the industry coped with sagging sales and rising costs.

  • HarperCollins Posts Big Gains in Q1 of Fiscal 2024

    Revenue in the quarter ended September 30, 2023, rose 8% over fiscal 2023 at HarperCollins, and profits jumped 67%. Executives at parent company News Corp expect the publisher to show marked improvement over last year.

  • S&S Results Drop in Q3, But Jon Karp Is Revved Up About the Future

    After a long run of record financial results, sales at Simon & Schuster fell 13%, and operating income dropped 35.5%, in the third quarter ended September 30, 2023. Nonetheless, CEO Jonathan Karp is excited about prospects for both the holiday season and life after Paramount Global.

  • Sales Rise, Profits Soar at Amazon

    Total sales at Amazon increased 13%, to $143.1 billion, in the third quarter ended September 30, 2023, over the comparable period in 2022, and operating income jumped to $11.2 billion, from $2.5 billion in the third quarter 2022. Online sales rose 7%.

  • Strong Trade Publishing Sales Drive Six-Month Gains at Bloomsbury

    Sales were up 11% and profits increased 8% in the first half of the U.K.-based publisher's fiscal year. Sales in the U.S. were about $76 million, accounting for 46% of total revenue.

  • Manga and Graphic Novels Are Keeping the Comics Biz Kicking

    This year's ICv2 Insider Talks celebrated the 50th anniversary of the direct market sales channel, even as it acknowledged graphic novels—and particularly manga—as the primary driver for growth in the comics business today, and by a significant margin.

  • Publishing Industry Sales Rebounded in August

    Following a July slump, book sales were up 8.5% in August at the 1,233 publishers that supply data to AAP’s StatShot program.

  • Hachette Book Group Reports Third Quarter Revenue Dip

    CEO Michael Pietsch said the 5.2% decline was attributable to "a lighter publication schedule" compared to the same period last year and "a downward trend" in the overall publishing market.

  • Lower Trade Sales, Book Club Reorg Dent Scholastic Results

    Lower trade book sales and costs associated with the creation of its new School Reading Events business resulted in an operating loss in the quarter at Scholastic.

  • Publishing Industry Sales Slumped in July

    Book sales fell 10.9% in July at the 1,233 publishers that supply data to AAP’s StatShot program. Sales of adult books dropped 4.6%, and children's/young adult book sales declined 10.7%.

  • B&NE Has a Hopeful First Quarter

    Barnes & Noble Education reported a 3.7% increase in sales in the quarter ended July 29, which the company took as a sign that its new First Day programs are being embraced by more students—and the first step back toward profitability.

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