The Bookseller - Spotlight - Big Four’s market share contracts as mid-range publishers make hay

Measuring publisher performance with a complete 52-week deck of a Nielsen BookScan year for the first time since 2019 shows how fruitful the pandemic and the immediate post-pandemic era has been. In official annual returns through BookScan's Total Consumer Market, four of the top five publishers had their best value totals in at least a decade, while nine of the UK's top 20 had their biggest years since records began.