Australian market down 3% in value

The book market in Australia in 2024 was down by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service.

Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, covering 31 December 2023 to 28 December 2024, showed the Australian market for the period was worth $1.29 billion in value, down from $1.33 billion in 2023. Sales by volume for the 2024 year totalled 69 million, down from 69.8 million the prior year.

However, sales in 2024 were up both by value and volume when compared to 2021 figures.

The average selling price for the 2024 year was $18.69, down 1.8% on the previous year.

Nielsen’s snapshot shows the top three growth categories for the year were humour, trivia, puzzles; food and drink; and genre fiction.

Sales for the year included titles across 757,460 unique ISBNs; however, one author’s titles undeniably ruled the market in 2024: Nagi Maehashi took out both first and second place in the year’s bestseller lists with RecipeTin Eats: Tonight and RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (both Macmillan), respectively. Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment (Macmillan) took our third place in the year’s bestsellers.

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