Via Digital Book World:
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2015...-half-of-2015/
Quote:
Publishers’ book sales for the first half of the year (Jan. – June 2015) were down 4.1% at $5.58 billion compared to $5.82 billion for the first six months in 2014. These numbers include sales for all tracked categories (Trade – fiction/non-fiction/religious, K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses). Publishers net revenue is tracked monthly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and includes sales data from more than 1,200 publishers (#AAPStats).
Some of the trends noted during the first half of 2015:
• Trade books (fiction/non-fiction/religious) were down from the first half of 2014, but began showing signs of improvement in June
• Trade eBooks declined 10.3% from 2014
• The bulk of eBook year-over-year decline comes from the Childrens/YA category, which was down 45.5%
• The decline comes after tremendous growth in 2014 and challenging comps against blockbuster titles, including Frozen and the Divergent series
• Paperbacks and downloaded audiobooks within the trade category grew in double digits
• Sales declined for Educational and Instructional materials
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This of course only reflects the tradpub side of the business and the bulk of the decline comes from the BPHs.
Since the report only goes to June it does not reflect the full impact of Agency 2.0, since PRH was still wholesaling ebooks until Sept.
More at the source.
The usal caveats about press releases apply.