AAP September Sales Report
| CATEGORY | % CHANGE September | % CHANGE YTD |
| (Measured in $ sales against same time periods, 2008)* Number of reporting companies. With The Lost Symbol and True Compass both hitting stores in September, sales for the 17 hardcover publishers that submit to the AAP had a 74.1% jump in sales in the month, according to the association's monthly sales report. For the first nine months of the year, hardcover sales for the 17 houses were up 2.9%, to $1.04 billion. The adult hardcover segment also benefited from an 18% decline in returns in September. E-book sales continued to skyrocket, increasing 170.7%, to $15.9 million in September and up 176.1%, to $112.2 million, in the year to date for the 13 publishers that report data | ||
| Adult Hard (17)* | 74.1% | 2.9% |
| Adult Paper (19) | -1.7 | -8.2 |
| Mass Market (9) | 33.3 | -0.2 |
| Juvenile Hard (14) | -24.3 | 5.1 |
| Juvenile Paper (14) | 8.6 | 2.5 |
| Audio (21) | 2.9 | -21.2 |
| Electronic (13) | 170.7 | 176.1 |
| Religious (19) | -18.4 | -10.6 |
| Higher Ed. (10) | 5.8 | 13.1 |
| Univ. Pr. Hard (37) | -3.6 | -7.3 |
| Univ. Pr. Paper (37) | 5.0 | -3.0 |
| Professional (9) | -3.7 | -4.6 |
| Elhi (8) | 1.0 | -19.4 |
