AAP October 2022 StatShot Report: Publishing Industry Down 5.1% Year-To-Date and Down 9.3% for October

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for October 2022 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. The report does not include PreK-12 revenue due to delays in data collection.

Total revenues across all categories, excluding PreK-12, for October 2022 were down 9.3% as compared to October 2021, coming in at $1.2 billion. Year-to-date revenues were down 5.1%, at $10.6 billion for the first ten months of the year.

Trade (Consumer Books) sales were down 13.7% in October, coming in at $978.3 million.

In terms of physical paper format revenues during the month of October, in the Trade (Consumer Books) category, Hardback revenues were down 16.7%, coming in at $443.8 million; Paperbacks were down 14.2%, with $296.8 million in revenue; Mass Market was down 65.7% to $7.2 million; and Special Bindings was down 8.5%, with $25.0 million in revenue.

eBook revenues were down 2.1% for the month as compared to October 2021 for a total of $82.9 million. The Downloaded Audio format was up 16.4% for October, coming in at $74.9 million in revenue. Physical Audio was up 16.2% coming in at $1.9 million.
more detail at: https://publishers.org/news/aap-october-2022-statshot-report-publishing-industry-down-5-1-year-to-date-and-down-9-3-for-october/

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