Religion Print Sales Up 12% in First Half of 2024 (publishersweekly.com)

More evidence has come in that points to 2024 being a very good year for sales of religion books. For the first half of 2024, unit sales of print religious book rose 12.1% over the comparable period in 2023 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. The gain came entirely from nonfiction titles, which rose 12.8% offsetting a 5% decline in the much smaller fiction category.

Religion was the best performing category among all adult nonfiction subject areas in the first half of the year, and sales easily outperformed total print sales in the first six months of 2024, which were down 0.4% from a year ago.
more at: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/95495-religion-print-sales-up-12-in-first-half-of-2024.html

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