Strong Christmas boosts 2023 book sales
While book sales for the year overall were down on 2022 figures, 2023 finished strong, with Christmas sales up overall according to Nielsen BookScan figures. According to Nielsen, Australian sales...
Australian market down 3% in value YTD, adult fiction strong
Nielsen BookScan reports that this year to date (YTD), to the week ending 9 December, the Australian Book Market overall declined (-3%) in value on the same time as a...
‘Heartstopper’, ‘The Secret’ top Christmas charts in Aus, Aotearoa NZ
According to Nielsen BookData, the official Australian BookScan Christmas number one bestseller, Heartstopper Volume 5 (Alice Oseman), sold 12,300 copies in Australia last week, while Australian consumers have bought over...
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
After three consecutive years of growth, the Australian book market flattened out in 2023. In the year to 17 June 2023, Australian book sales totalled $548 million, up 0.6% on...
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’
The 11th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held last week, 24–26 November, in a hybrid event taking place at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, the State Library Victoria...
SPN conference 2021: ‘stimulating, diverse and accessible’
The 10th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 25–27 November. The 2021 conference ran entirely online for the second year running, but returned to...
New Zealand market down 0.3% in 2020
New Zealand’s book sales fell by less than 1% in 2020, despite a sustained hard lockdown for almost five weeks from late March, in which the nation’s booksellers were unable...
Online SPN conference a ‘great success’
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) ninth Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 26–27 November, with organisers hailing the event a ‘great success’. SPN general manager Tim Coronel told Books+Publishing...
Nielsen report: over a third of listeners new to audiobooks
A new report from Nielsen Book Australia has found that 37% of Australian audiobook consumers began listening to audiobooks for the first time in the past year. The report also...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey dominate Australian bestsellers YTD
Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe tops Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020 and more than 500,000...
SPN conference 2019: ‘Extremely positive’ feedback from delegates
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) eighth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 21–23 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said that 180 tickets were...
UK sales of Booker Prize longlisted titles up nearly 200%
In the UK, the titles longlisted for the Booker Prize sold a combined 4740 copies according to Nielsen BookScan, up 198% on the week before the announcement, reports the Bookseller. Oyinkan...
2019 ABA conference: value, volume down YTD; HR, sales discussed
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2019 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported a 2.6% decline in Australian book...
UK audiobook boom continuing with 13% growth in 2018
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan reports that audiobooks have grown by 13% in volume during 2018. At the London Book Fair (LBF) Quantum Conference, Nielsen said that the audiobook boom...
The books: Locally authored titles supported by strong non-book offering
In 2018, local authors were again well-represented across the nonfiction, fiction and children's categories. Leigh Sales' Any Ordinary Day (Hamish Hamilton) was the most mentioned nonfiction title for Christmas 2018. For...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume remain flat
Value and volume sales showed marginal growth in the lead-up to Christmas, compared to the previous year. Books sold during the four weeks leading up to 29 December 2018 had a...
Book sales up marginally in 2018; five Australian titles in top 10
Book sales grew marginally in Australia in 2018, with like-for-like growth up 1.3% in volume and 1.4% in value on the previous year, according to Nielsen BookScan. This is the...
Nielsen BookScan: Aus fiction popular; ‘similar’ overall sales shape
Australian fiction titles are popular with book buyers this Christmas period, with statistics from Nielsen BookScan showing Australian fiction titles high on the bestsellers chart and an increased market share...
Attendance up at SPN conference 2018, ‘incredibly positive’ response
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) seventh Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 22-24 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said the response to this...
Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ breaks record for first-week sales in Australian nonfiction
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor for Families (HarperCollins) has become the fastest-selling Australian nonfiction title, after selling 74,600 copies with a value of $1.7 million since its release on 24...