For the second week in a row, Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #11): From the Creator of Captain Underpants, was the perfect promoting e book in the US, in line with numbers posted by Publishers Weekly supplied by Circana Bookscan. The e book bought 152,650 copies.
It was Dog Man #11’s second week topping the chart. Last week it debuted at primary with 225,612 copies bought. It’s two week complete: 378,262. This can also be the third week in a row {that a} graphic novel was topped the BookScan finest vendor record. Three weeks in the past it was Spy X Family, Vol. 9, promoting 31,486 copies.
Dog Man was the one graphic novel representing in the Top Ten for this week, nonetheless. And thought the gross sales are spectacular, it’s still slower than previous Dog Man volumes.
The return of Dav Pilkey’s insanely widespread hero got here at the same time as – maintain on to your hats – e book gross sales this 12 months have been rising total, in line with PW.
According to preliminary figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, February bookstore gross sales elevated 10.7% over final 12 months, rising to $609
The February enhance adopted an almost 16% gross sales leap in January gross sales. The mixture of the two sturdy months resulted in a 14.3% rise in bookstore gross sales in the primary two months of 2023 over the comparable interval in 2022. Sales in 2023 have been $1.60 billion, up from $1.40 billion in the primary two months of 2022.
Circana figures present e book gross sales as slat, for a similar interval, nevertheless it’s a hopeful signal that e book gross sales received’t be utterly tanked by no matter financial upheaval we’re going via proper now. As we reported earlier, indie bookstores are among the many most recession proof companies.
The resiliency of the e book market appears counter intuitive given the tip of homebound pandemic studying…however a e book is a remarkably sturdy platform for leisure. And, lest we overlook, graphic novels rely as books.
All this comes amidst a normal slowdown for comics and graphic novel gross sales earlier this 12 months. According to a February Bookscan report, discovered in Publishing Perspectives, though GN gross sales stay sturdy, they slowed down in the primary six weeks of 2023, down 13% from 2022, with juvenile comics declining for the primary time in greater than a decade.
Perhaps the return of Dog Man, one of the widespread comics characters of all time, will enhance the numbers for the spring. Here’s some charts displaying total Comics and GN gross sales from Circana BookScan, as reported by Kristen McLean, govt director and business analyst.
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