Our dystopian nowadays has bring havoc with sales ofscience fabrication book of account , according to anecdotal evidence . But just how bad is it ?
Certainly , the news from the book business sector in general has been catastrophic in the past week . Random Housereported a 6.3 pct revenue drop , Simon And Schustersaw a 3 percent taxation dropin 2008 , Books A Millionsaidprofits cut down 3.6 percent in the final quarter of 2008 , and Barnes And Noblepredicteda 6 to 9 percent sales fall in the first tail of 2009 . ( Thanks , Steven Seighman ! ) ( you’re able to listen to the 2008 Barnes And Noble pay conference call , from the other Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , atthis link . I just listened to a big chunk of it , and did n’t hear anything striking . )
Meanwhile , Cecilia Tan from Circlet Press says overall book sales were down 30 percent last year , but mass - market paperbacks ( the smaller , cheaper kind ) actually went up in the fourth quarter of 2008 . Science fiction used to be published almost entirely in MMPBs , but the genre has been moving slowly to the declamatory , more expensive trade paper-back book formatting .
But it ’s not all bad newsworthiness : a spokesman for Borderstold U.S. News And World Reportrecently that “ science fabrication and illusion ” was one of the few ameliorate spots in the chain ’s sales in February 2009 . ( Of course , that may chew over a increase in phantasy , and a loss in science fabrication . )
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