Archive for January, 2009
Close of play in the book market for 2008
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009For 2008 Nielsen BookScan, which tracks nearly all retail book sales, reported
consumer sales in the UK market of £1.773 bn and 236.9 books. This is an average
selling price (not cover price) of £7.49 per copy.
The figures show a decline from the previous year of 0.4 per cent (by volume) and 1.6
per cent (by value). The average [...]
