Published in Publishers Weekly

"A contributing factor to the improved mood at BEA were two reports that showed the industry is growing. Although the Association of American Publishers/Book Industry Study Group couldn't provide hard numbers in their first BookStats report, representative from both organizations as well as Kelley Gallagher of Bowker, which is administering the program, said that between 2008 and 2010, unit and dollar sales were up. The sales gain was derived from actual sales from more than 1,100 publishers that supplied sales data for the three-year period.

The strongest sales gains in the three-year period came from small and medium-size publishers. Sales at the largest publishers showed slight gains. Adult fiction sales had modest sales gains, while the children's/young adult market had substantial gains in the period. Bowker's Gallagher noted that sales of adult nonfiction "are struggling a bit." Dominique Raccah, BISG chair and Sourcebooks president, noted that in each of the industry tiers - small, medium, and large - at least 50% of the reporting companies posted year over year gains."

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