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AAP sales reports

The AAP released its annual sales report, which like all industry reports is notoriously incomplete and a definite victim to "what goes in is what comes out". Results are culled from its 300 members - and given that there are hundreds of thousands of publishers in the US, it seems that reports like these are more of a Gestalt indicating trends than a true picture of what's going on in the industry.

That said, it's interesting to note that audiobook sales are down this year. I'm wondering if that's due to the rise of podcasts and radio shows and even magazine/newspaper subscriptions being available from many audiobook sellers. In other words, there's a lot more to listen to than just books.

Ebook sales are up - most likely due to the textbook market, which is following in the footsteps of the scholarly journal business; printing is becoming prohibitively expensive, and digital distribution is the most sensible way of maintaining the quality of the publication over the widest possible audience.
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