Sales data: market recovers some of REDgroup’s pie

Thursday, 19 January 2012 Books+Publishing

The sales data from Nielsen BookScan for the 13 weeks to the end of 2011 suggest that the local book trade has recovered some of the Christmas market share held by REDgroup in 2010.Overall, sales were down 18.3% in value and 13.9% in volume, but as the chart below illustrates,...