Sales Jump in Boom Year for U.K. Publishing

Released ahead of the Publishers Association's annual meeting, the figures in the PA Yearbook, which report on sales for calendar 2016, presented a bouyant picture of British publishing. The only fly in the ointment is a fall in domestic e-book sales. The headline figure of a 7% increase in sales, to £4.8 billion, brings publishing to a record level; once inflation of 1%-2% last year is factored in, real-term growth is still over 5%. ... [mehr] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/73461-sales-jump-in-boom-year-for-u-k-publishing.html