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Circana Bookscan reports that print book sales “remain[ed] steady in the first half of 2025 but has shown signs of slowness in May and June. In the first six months of 2025, print book sales dropped -1 percent based on units sold, compared to the same period last year.” They note, “Key factors behind the drops include retail promo events that occurred in 2024 and were not replicated in 2025, along with the normalization of adult fiction sales volume.” Adult nonfiction was ​”the steepest underperformer,” down 3 million units compared to the first half of 2024, even with sales of …
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Laura Bishop's LOVE ME STALK ME and HATE ME TAKE ME, a dark stalker romantic comedy where a department store manager downloads an AI boyfriend app only to discover her new head of security hacked her phone and has been posing as the AI she's been spilling her fantasies to, to Emilia Rhodes at Atria, in a major deal, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, by Kimberly Whalen and Nina Powers at The Whalen Agency (NA).
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