{"id":210,"date":"2007-06-02T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/book-industry-stats\/"},"modified":"2007-06-02T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T22:40:43","slug":"book-industry-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/book-industry-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Industry Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-size: 56px; float: left; width: 38px; color: #286ea0; line-height: 48px\">B<\/span>owkers has released its latest complilation of book industry statistics. They show a 3.3 percent increase in the total number of titles (last year saw a 4.6 percent decrease). The big winner was adult fiction, up 17 percent; the loser was children&#8217;s books, down  nearly a third over the past two years (that will change when the new Harry Potter comes out). Computer books and travel books are also down, probably in part because of on-line competition.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never sure how to take information about sheer numbers of titles, since a lot of the crap that&#8217;s published barely deserves the term <em>book<\/em>. But Kelly Gallagher, general manager of the business intelligence business unit for Bowker believes she knows:   &#8220;What these statistics for last year illustrate is that most publishers are done with retrenching for the time being. &#8220;But since the overall numbers have not yet returned to the level of 2004, it shows the industry is still being cautious about what books they add to their catalogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowkers has released its latest complilation of book industry statistics. They show a 3.3 percent increase in the total number of titles (last year saw a 4.6 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}