Published in: ShelfAwareness

"One of the highlights of yesterday's Making Information Pay conference sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group was a statistic that put the current book market in a bit of perspective: so far in 2009, unit sales of books are down 1.2%, according to Dave Thompson, v-p of sales analysis at Random House. Thus, he said, despite the many changes occurring in the business and the "worst market we've ever seen . . . we're not in a death spiral." Moreover, he stressed, these sales don't include Wal-Mart, e-books and downloaded audiobooks. . . ."

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