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The Association of American Publishers announced sales data for October from its participating StatShot publishers, reporting trade book sales up 2.8 percent to $1.03 billion. (That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales.) Adult books rose 6 percent to a record $745 million, with $393 million in fiction (up 11.3 percent) and nonfiction just above flat at $351 million. The category saw growth in every format, with hardcovers up 8.8 percent to $336 million, paperbacks up 3.5 percent to …
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Community architect, founder of Daybreaker, and author of BELONG Radha Agrawal's HOW TO MAKE A FRIEND: A MODERN GUIDE TO FRIENDSHIP, a manual to friendship in the 21st century, helping readers understand their current friendships and break down the barriers they face when meeting someone new, giving them the practical solutions to make, and keep, more friendships in a world increasingly designed to keep us apart, to Ariel Curry at Sourcebooks, in a significant deal, at auction, … read more
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