AAP February 2025 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Down 1.9% for Month of February, and Down 1.7% Year-To-Date

Total revenues across all categories for February 2025 were down 1.9% as compared to February 2024, coming in at $971.5 million. Year-to-date revenues were down 1.7%, at $2.2 billion for the first two months of the year.

Trade (Consumer Books) revenues were down 4.9% in February at $683.7 million. In terms of physical paper format revenues during the month of February, in the Trade (Consumer Books) category, Hardback revenues were down 4.9%, coming in at $231.4 million; Paperbacks were down 11.4%, with $226.0 million in revenue; Mass Market was down 29.3% to $6.5 million; and Special Bindings were down 8.0%, with $14.4 million in revenue.

eBook revenues were up 7.8% for the month as compared to February 2024 for a total of $102.7 million, and the Digital Audio format was up 6.8% for February, coming in at $83.3 million in revenue. Physical Audio was down 36.3%, coming in at $200 thousand.

Year-to-date Trade revenues were down 3.2% at $1.5 billion for the first two months of the year. Hardback revenues were down 1.3%, coming in at $524.7 million; Paperbacks were down 10.3%, with $490.0 million in revenue; Mass Market was down 21.7% to $17.6 million; and Special Bindings were up 5.9%, with $34.4 million in revenue.
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