{"id":14204,"date":"2025-07-22T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14204\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:01:09","slug":"us-print-book-sales-decline-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14204\/","title":{"rendered":"US print book sales decline in first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday, 22 July 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrint book sales in the United States have declined by 1.6% in the first half of 2025, compared to the same period last year, reported Publishers Weekly (PW) earlier this month, drawing on Circana BookScan results. This reflected a decline in unit sales from 347.5 million this time last year&#8230; \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=international-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 22 July 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Print book sales in the United States have declined by 1.6%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6109,2840,11080,11083,11077,5533,353,11082,49,48,1951,75,11079,5441,11081,11078],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}