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The AAP reported May results from reporting StatShot publishers, with trade sales down 8.6 percent from last year to $671 million. Adult book sales fell 9.6 percent to $493 million; fiction sales were down 8.3 percent to $286 million and nonfiction sales dropped 11.3 percent to $207 million. By format, adult books sold $167 million in hardcover (down 8.6 percent) and $167 million in paperback (down 16.3 percent). Ebook sales were $72.1 million (down 1 percent) and digital audio sold $75.8 million (up 9.8 percent). In the kids and YA book market, sales were down 5.8 percent to $178 million,

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S. Arndt's GOOD TASTE, pitched as The Menu meets THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, in which a con woman about to marry rich meets her future fiance's family for the first time on their private Antarctic cruise ship, but quickly realizes that these foodies may be hungry for more than generational wealth—and she will be next on the menu, unless she can find an unexpected ally, to Lisa Bonvissuto at Berkley, in a major deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2027, … read more
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