The Circana Books Media Report for the week ending May 13 discusses ‘some complicated drivers’ behind US book sales this Mother’s Day. “The US book market ended down 353,000 units from last week, with some complicated drivers.”The key factors behind the decline, McLean says, “had nothing to do with the holiday. They included organic drop-offs from [the previous] week’s strong debuts in the juvenile and young adult categories, titles like the overall No. 1 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography,” by Wendy Loggia with illustrations by Elisa Chavarri, from Penguin Random House. More on the work of Kristen McLean is here, and more on the United States book industry is here.

Source: CNN May 27, 2023 05:03 UTC