AAP June Sales Report
-- Publishers Weekly, 9/8/2008
| CATEGORY | % CHANGE JUNE | % CHANGE YTD |
| Adult Hard (17)* | 12.2% | -6.3% |
| Adult Paper (18) | 5.5 | 11.5 |
| Mass Market (9) | 1.2 | -0.9 |
| Juvenile Hard (13) | 18.2 | -6.6 |
| Juvenile Paper (14) | 17.9 | 6.2 |
| Audio (13) | 9.1 | -15.5 |
| Electronic (13) | 87.4 | 43.3 |
| Religious (12) | -12.9 | -11.6 |
| Higher Ed. (10) | -7.6 | 2.4 |
| Univ. Pr. Hard (38) | -3.3 | -2.5 |
| Univ. Pr. Paper (38) | 2.3 | -5.5 |
| Professional (9) | -11.3 | -3.3 |
| Elhi (8) | 4.9 | 3.2 |
| (Measured in $ sales against same time periods, 2007) * Number of reporting companies. Halfway through 2008, sales in eight of the 13 segments tracked by the AAP in its monthly sales report had a decline in revenue. The two electronic categories had very different performances in the six months with 13 e-book publishers reporting that sales rose 43.3%, to $22.2 million, while 13 audiobook publishers reported a decline of 15.5%, to $74.5 million. The religious book segment had the largest decline among the print segments, while trade paperbacks had the biggest gain. In the elhi segment, sales of supplementary materials were off 9.4% in the six-month period, while sales of basal textbooks increased 6.0%. | ||
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