Archive for January, 2010
Close of play in the book market for 2009
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010For 2009 Nielsen BookScan, which tracks nearly all retail book sales, reported consumer sales in the UK market of £1.751bn and 235.7m books. This is an average selling price (not cover price) of £7.43 per copy. The figures show a small fall from the previous year of 0.5 per cent (by volume) and 1.2 per cent (by [...]
Snow Books
Friday, January 8th, 2010The icy spell of weather this January prompts thought about suitable reading. There is The Ice Storm by Rick Moody or Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg. How about Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose? More punning are Naomi Klein’s No Logo, the film tie-in editions of High School Musical, and That’s How I See [...]
