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Second quarter deals declined somewhat overall (-4.7 percent), due to a big drop in reports from digital publishers, though in our core categories — nonfiction; fiction; and children’s — the totals were nearly flat. (Those categories comprise the first three bars in the chart below.) That’s similar to, or ahead of the second quarter of 2024, following a strong first quarter which featured an early London Book Fair. As was the case a year ago, adult sales actually rose slightly in the second quarter, for the third year in a row, as children’s deals declined again, down 7.9 percent. Adult

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