The Bookseller - News - US sales of print books dropped 6.5% in 2022 but adult fiction sees increase 

Frontlist sales dropped 10.5% in 2022, while backlist sales fell 3.7%, according to the NPD BookScan figures, while sales of hardbacks fell 10.4% compared to 2.4% for trade paperbacks, which accounted for 60% of unit sales in 2022, up from 57% in 2021. Hardbacks' share of the market declined from 33% in 2021 to 30% in 2022.

Print sales of adult fiction were up 8.5% on 2019, which Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/ credited to the power of BookTok. US trade publishing's largest category, adult non-fiction, saw a 10.3% drop in sales in 2022 to 289.6 million copies sold, compared to 322.8 million copies in 2021.