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AAP Reports Sharp Decline in eBook Revenues in January 2015
The Association of American Publishers reported on Wednesday that revenues were up by just under a percentage point. According to the 1,200 odd publishers who submit their data to the AAP's Statshot...
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AAP Revises January 2015 Revenue Estimates, Trade Revenues Now up 5%, eBook...
The Association of American Publishers has some egg on their faces this Monday afternoon. Citing technical errors stemming from new PRH reporting procedures, the AAP has released revised stats for...
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Fun With Conflicting AAP Stats
This is just a note to let you know that I am giving up on reporting the AAP's official monthly revenue reports. They no longer provide any useful data for me to report. For the past five plus years I...
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AAP Launches New Annual Market Stats Estimate, Reports eBook Volume Flat in 2014
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has just debuted a new annual estimate of the US book market. StatShot Annual (not to be confused with the monthly StatShot report or the now retired...
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AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 7.5% in the First Quarter of 2015
The Association of American Publishers confirmed today that the major publishers are feeling the first stings of the mad rush back to agency pricing. Trade sales (for the 1,200 odd publishers...
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AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 9.3% in First Third of 2015
The AAP's latest monthly report lends credence to the premise that the major publishers are feeling the sting of high ebook prices. The Association of American Publishers draws its data from 1,200...
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Publisher Revenues Down in May 2015
The AAP reports today that the legacy publishing continued its decline into irrelevance in May. New figures from the 1,209 publishers participating in the AAP's monthly Snapshot program showed that...
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Trade Book Sales Down 1.4% in First Half of 2015, AAP Reports
The Association of American Publishers just released a few dribblets of information on the US book industry. The publicly available stats are incomplete, but the news is not good for the legacy...
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Publisher eBook Revenues Down in First 7 Months of 2015
Numerous press reports over the past few months have informed us that the major publishers are experiencing a decline in ebook revenues, and based on the latest statements from the Association of...
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AAP Reports Trade Sales Down in First 8 Months of 2015
The AAP released its monthly report for August 2015. Highlights include paperbacks being up 12.2% year-to-date, and ebooks being down 11%. Total revenue was down 2.3%, to$10.4 billion, and trade book...
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AAP Reports Publisher eBook Revenues Down 11%
The AAP released its monthly Statshot report on Wednesday, and reported that the collected revenues of the 1,200 odd publishers in the survey group had declined 2% in the first nine months of 2015. The...
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AAP Reports eBook Revenues Down 12.3% in First Ten Months of 2015
The Association of American Publishers released its monthly stats report on Wednesday and the news was about what you would expect. Total trade revenues were up 2.5% for the month and half a percent...
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AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 12.7% Through November 2015
The Association of American Publishers released its month Statshot report for the period ending November 2015, and the news continues to be poor on the digital front. eBook revenues are trending...
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God Bless the Coloring Books – AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up in 2015, eBooks...
The Association of American Publishers has released its year end report for 2015, and the news is mixed. Total trade revenues were up a fraction of a percent, to $7.2 billion, while overall publisher...
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AAP Reports Publisher Book, eBook Sales Down in January 2016
Bookstore retail sales may have been up in January 2016 and for the previous calendar year, but you wouldn't be able to tell that from the AAP's January revenue stats. The Association of American...
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AAP Estimates Publisher eBook Revenue Shrank in 2015
The Association of American Publishers has released its annual estimates for the US book industry revenues, and the news is mixed. Not to be confused with the monthly reports by the same name, Statshot...
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Why You Should Take the AAP Statshot Annual Revenue Data With a Grain of Salt
Editor's Note: An email from the eponymous Data Guy crossed my desk this morning which I would like to share with you. He's seen the data from yesterday's post on the AAP's Statshot Annual report, and...
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AAP Reports eBook Revenues Down 18.7% in February 2016
The Association of American Publishers has released its monthly report for February 2016, and for the most part the news is bad. Total trade revenues for the 1,200 odd publishers which submit their...
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AAP Throws Hissy Fit, Can’t Tell the Difference Between Studying a Pirate...
The Association of American Publishers is incensed that anyone should have a word - any type of word - to say about the disruptive academic article hosting site Sci-Hub. Late last month the AAP sent a...
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