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Irish Consumer Market Continues to Fall

October 21, 2011 – 6:47 am

The Irish Consumer Market (ICM) continues to suffer sharp year-on-year declines, with the latest figures from Nielsen Bookscan showing the market down by 8.9% to €88.6m in value, and down by 9.7% to 8.5m units.

The Fiction sector is down 9.0% in value (to €26.0m) and 10.1% in volume (to 2.8m units). Non-Fiction has seen a decline of 8.0% in value (to €41.4m) and 8.3% in volume (to 3.0m units). The Children’s sector shows a decline of 10.4% in value (to €20.7m) and 10.7% in volume (to 2.7m units).

Average selling price for the market as a whole was €10.43 indicating that despite falling sales, prices are relatively stable. The figures include only print sales. Irish readers can now buy ebooks from Amazon, Apple, Kobo and several other smaller ebook stores.

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Nielsen Figures Show Market Slide

July 26, 2011 – 10:57 am

The Irish Consumer Market (ICM) has seen a sales decline in the first twenty-eight weeks of 2011 of 4.5% in value and 6.9% in volume according to Nielsen Bookscan.

The company reported that the market had sales of €57.8m in value and 5.6m units down from the same period lat year.

Reflecting the situation in the UK consumer market Fiction was the sector worst affected in the ICM with sales by value of €17.5m (down 6.7%) and sales by volume of 1.9m (down 8.5%).

Despite the dominance of Fiction in the top ten, Non-fiction has outperformed Fiction although it has also seen a decline with sales to date of €28.1m (down 4.1%) and 2.1m units (down 5.0%).

Children’s books performed best of the major sectors with sales of €11.8m (down 2.3%) and 1.6m in volume terms (down 7.5%).

Nielsen’s figure cover between 60 and 70% of the market including Amazon’s physical sales, Easons, Tesco and a panel of independents.

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Briefly Noted | Kobo’s iOS app loses ‘buy’ option — EBOOK MAGAZINE

July 25, 2011 – 8:59 am

Pad and iPhone users who buy books from Kobo will no longer be able to purchase titles from within the app as Kobo becomes the latest retailer to fall into line with Apple’s new sales rules.Earlier this year Apple announced it would no longer approve apps which redirected sales out of the app and into the devices’s web browser unless the app also allowed in-app purchasing via iTunes.

via Kobo’s iOS app loses ‘buy’ option — EBOOK MAGAZINE.

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Briefly Noted | Amazon’s ‘Big Deals’ Puts 900 Kindle Books On Sale – Including Big 6 Titles | paidContent

July 21, 2011 – 11:27 pm

Following the success of its “Sunshine Deals” promotion, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running an even bigger sale on Kindle books: The Big Deal, with over 900 titles on sale for $0.99, $1.99, $2.99 and $3.99 through July 27. And here’s the kicker: For the first time ever, Big 6 publishers like Random House are participating in the sale.

via Amazon’s ‘Big Deals’ Puts 900 Kindle Books On Sale – Including Big 6 Titles | paidContent.

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Briefly Noted | Borders Succumbs to Digital Era in Books – WSJ.com

July 21, 2011 – 7:42 am

Borders Group Inc.s imminent demise marks the first major casualty of the digital era in buying and reading books. But the store closings also will mean fewer opportunities for shoppers to wander the book aisles, a loss that will affect publishers as well as competitors and authors.

The bookseller is expected to ask a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve plans to start liquidating as soon as Friday. By the end of September, the remaining 399 stores of the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain will be shut down for good.

via Borders Succumbs to Digital Era in Books – WSJ.com.

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Briefly Noted | Bloomsbury warns over trading slump – FT.com

July 12, 2011 – 9:07 am

In response to the announcement, analysts reviewed their full-year forecasts for Bloomsbury.

“The net impact will be to see forecasts ease for February 2012 but advance for February 2013,” added Malcolm Morgan, an analyst at Peel Hunt.

“We anticipate pre-tax profit for the year to February to settle around £9m – a £400,000 advance for the acquisition and a £700,000 reduction for trading.”

The news came as Bloomsbury announced the £20.1m acquisition of Continuum International, a publishing house with offices in London and New York that specialises in academic and professional titles.

via Bloomsbury warns over trading slump – FT.com.

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 02/07/2011

July 8, 2011 – 10:22 am

Not a terrible week for book sales, at least in the top ten. There was a slight recovery on last week and the average sale per title is up a little because of that. It’s also nice to see there are still four Irish authors in the top ten.

Fiction is still holding off non-fiction almost entirely. Kate McCann’s book is falling down the list and when it drops out of the top ten, I wonder will it be replaced by fiction or non-fiction, I expect fiction.

1: All for You, Sheila O’Flanagan, 1486
2: Broken, Karin Slaughter, 1,240
3: The Midwife’s Confession, Diane Chamberlain, 1,140
4: Something from Tiffany’s, Melissa Hill, 1,100
5: Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy, 1,073
6: Harvesting The Heart, Jodi Picoult, 974
7: Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her, Kate McCann, 931
8: A Game of Thrones Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin, 879
9: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, 878
10: The Confession, John Grisham, 826

Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 10527 Units
Increase since last week: 362 units
% Increase since last week: 3.56%
Average Units Per Title: 1052

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Fiction: 9 titles, 9,596 units or 89.58%, RRP £7.44
Non-Fiction: 1 titles, 939 units or 8.84%, RRP £14.99

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Authors: 10
Irish Authors: 4, 40%
Irish Published Books: 0, 0%

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Average RRP: £9.79
Increase in RRP since last week: £0.60
% Increase in RRP since last week: 6.53%*
*It is important to note that RRP does not reflect actually selling price.

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 2nd July 2011
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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 25/06/2011

June 29, 2011 – 10:44 am

After a few weeks where sales seemed to be recovering for the top ten, this week dealt a huge blow with an over 15% drop in sales by volume. That nonetheless offered some bright points as Irish authors still held 4 of the top ten spots in the chart but the trend is disappointing.

The array of fiction is again broad, everything from commercial women’s fiction to children’s fiction with crime, literary and fantasy thrown into the mix. The strength of fiction might be more easily understood as the weakness of non-fiction in the first half of 2011 however, especially when the sales figures are so anemic.

All the same it is nice to see Maeve Binchy (why not listen to her talk about Minding Frankie here) in the number one spot.

1: Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy, 1,573
2: Something from Tiffany’s, Melissa Hill, 1,475
3: A Game of Thrones Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin, 1,109
4: Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her, Kate McCann, 1,059
5: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, 996
6: The Confession, John Grisham, 882
7: Miracle Cure, Harlan Coben, 818
8: Stand by Me, Sheila O’Flanagan, 790
9: Water For Elephants, Sarah Gruen, 780
10: Rodrick Rules:Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney, 683

Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 10165 Units
Decrease since last week: 1,873 units
% Decrease since last week: 15.56%
Average Units Per Title: 1017

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Fiction: 9 titles, 9,106 units or 89.58%, RRP £8.55
Non-Fiction: 1 titles, 1,059 units or 10.42%, RRP £14.99

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Authors: 10
Irish Authors: 4, 40%
Irish Published Books: 0, 0%

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Average RRP: £9.19
Decrease in RRP since last week: £0.60
% Decrease in RRP since last week: 6.13%*
*It is important to note that RRP does not reflect actually selling price.

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Colum McCann. European Graduate School, www.egs.edu/, Photograph by Hendrik Speck, www.hendrikspeck.com/, Source: www.flickr.com/photos/hendrikspeck/

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 25th June 2011

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April Retail Figures Show Yearly Declines

June 27, 2011 – 8:00 am

Data released by the Central Statistics office revealed that the level of sales in April 2011 in the Books, Newspapers and Stationery sector was down over 14% in value and volume terms on the levels for April 2010.

Despite the dramatic year on year decrease, the April 2011 level of sales actually saw a modest improvement on the March 2011 levels.

The index indicated that the value of sales in April 2011 increased from 57.8 in March to 62.6 an 8.3% improvement. The volume index also saw growth with a four point increased over April 2011 or a 7.6% increase month on month.

This modest growth marks the second month in a row that the sales index for the sector has seen growth.

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 18/06/2011

June 24, 2011 – 9:18 am

With this top ten analysis, IPN is finally up to date with the Irish Top Ten!

If last week was a great base, then this week’s top ten was a nice step forward. Across the board titles did better, reflected in the average top ten unit sales of 1,204. The top ten also got a fresh influx of titles too, with Maeve Binchy, Harlan Coben, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly and James Patterson (with a new title) making the list this week.

That influx brought a doubling of the Irish Authors in the top ten and also washed the second non-fiction title out of the mix, leaving the resilient Kate McCann’s title as the only non-fiction title in the top ten.

1: Something from Tiffany’s, Melissa Hill, 1,729
2: The Confession, John Grisham, 1,524
3: Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her, Kate McCann, 1,361
4: Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy, 1,344
5: Miracle Cure, Harlan Coben, 1,126
6: , James Patterson, 1,046
7: Stand by Me, Sheila O’Flanagan, 985
8: Cross Fire, James Patterson, 979
9: A Game of Thrones Book 1 of a Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin, 973
10: The Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 971

Top Ten Dynamics
IPN is running a top ten dynamics section looking at the top ten with some data drawn out. Nothing too dramatic, but useful nonetheless.

Volume: 12,038 Units
Increase since last week: 1,090 units
% Increase since last week: 9.96%
Average Units Per Title: 1204

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Fiction: 9 titles, 10,677 units or 88.69%, RRP £9.21
Non-Fiction: 1 titles, 1,361 units or 11.31%, RRP £14.99

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Authors: 10
Irish Authors: 4, 40%
Irish Published Books: 0, 0%

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Average RRP: £9.79
Decrease in RRP since last week: £0.30
% Decrease in RRP since last week: 3.12%*
*It is important to note that RRP does not reflect actually selling price.

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 18th June 2011

 

 

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