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Print Sales Fell 3.1% in the First Quarter of 2026
With no title coming close to matching last year’s blockbusters Onxy Storm, The Let Them Theory, and Sunrise on the Reaping, unit sales of print books fell in the period at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden was Q1’s top seller.
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PRH Profits Fell 4.7% in 2025
Parent company Bertelsmann attributed the decline, to €704 million, to “growth-related expenses in the U.S. core business along with negative exchange rate effects.” Penguin Random House’s total revenue in the year rose 1.3%, to €5 billion.
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Scholastic Has a Soft Third Quarter
Sales fell 2% in the period due to declines in the company’s children’s book publishing and distribution segment, as well as its international segment, which were somewhat offset by higher revenue in its smaller entertainment business.
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B&T Makes Surprise Chapter 11 Filing
The closed library wholesaler reported that it owes between $100 million and $500 million and has assets of just $1 million to $10 million. It owes Penguin Random House alone more than $23 million.
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Wiley Has Big Earnings Jump in Q3
Sales of professional books were the one weak spot in what was a generally good quarter for the company. For the period ended January 31, 2026, revenue rose 1.5%, to $410 million, while operating income jumped 21%, to $62.7 million.
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HBG Sales Jumped 11% in 2025
Buoyed by the November 2024 acquisition of Union Square from Barnes & Noble, revenue at Hachette Book Group rose 11% in 2025 over the previous year, parent company Lagadère reported. Excluding the purchase, sales still rose 3% over 2024.
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Open Road Touts ‘Record Growth’
In his annual letter to employees, Open Road Integrated Media CEO David Steinberger said more titles and new programs led to record results at the book discovery company.
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Trade Sales Were Mixed in 2025, While Religion Sales Rose
The final AAP StatShot report for the year found small increases in the children’s/YA and religion books segments compared to 2024, as well as a slight decline for adult books.
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Amazon Posts Record Results
Led by its cloud computing division, sales for the tech giant topped $716 billion in 2025 and net income was $77 billion.
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Sales Up, Profits Down at HarperCollins
A $16 million write-off led to a 2% decline in profits in Q2 despite a 6% increase in sales, to $633 million. Better things are expected in the second half of the publisher’s fiscal year partly due to soaring sales of hockey romance Heated Rivalry.
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