Children's and YA Revenues Up Almost 41% in 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 12:00AM 
This week GalleyCat announced some exciting news for all of us Children's and YA writers:
According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP) StatShot report for the first half of 2012, sales revenue in the children’s and young adult category skyrocketed by nearly 41 percent, compared to the same period last year, rising to $845 million.
Those gains were driven by a 251.5 percent increase in children’s and young adult digital books (see the chart embedded above). At the same time, adult fiction and nonfiction sales increased 8.3 percent.
They also posted the below chart, which breaks down overall year-to-date sales by category as well. The AAP collected information from 1,186 different publishers to compile the report.
It's great to see sales in the Children's / YA category continue to climb, and definitely proves we're writing in the right genre!
This year alone, I've purchased more than 75 YA books, almost all of which, were hardback...and only ONE adult title (GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn). And I can tell you I have my eye on several more YA titles before 2012 comes to a close!
So, have you done your part to contribute to the increase in Children's / YA book sales this year?
Children's Sales, YA Sales in YA Stats
Reader Comments (6)
Well this is awesome news. :) I suspected that YA was doing well, but it's great to have that confirmed. It makes writing for that market feel that much more exciting, you know? Thanks for sharing this, Erin! It was just the encouragement that I needed. :)
Are you kidding?! I think I might be solely responsible for keeping the children's book industry afloat. ;-) In all seriousness, this is wonderful news... Thanks for sharing, Erin! (By the way, what are you reading these days? I always love your reviews!)
That is great news. I hope I'm doing my part with my launch of Neverlove :-)
I've bought more books this year than I have in a long time, mostly YA.
Wow! Very interesting :D I definitely helped to boost those revenues this year :P
Thanks so much for sharing, Erin!
Great post - really informative. Yes, I've done my part. I've bought exclusively Young Adult novels this year - a good deal of them Indie. I wonder if those AAP stats includes Indie Authors? If they don't, wow oh wow the explosion of the Young Adult market is even more impressive than I thought.